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It is submitted that the industry was granted ‘Consent to Operate’ under the Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 vide no. CTOW/Varied/LDH3/2021/16183256 and Air (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 vide no. CTOA/Varied/LDH3/2021/16183252 dated 19.10.2021 for manufacturing of Plywood, Ply Board, Ply, Board, Laminated Board, Door, Panel, Furniture, Saw Mill, Veneer, Flush Door Etc. @ 4000 m2/day by operating thermopacs of capacity 15 Lac Kcal & 20 Lac Kcal along with discharge of trade effluent @ 1.0 KLD onto land for plantation after treatment through ETP and domestic effluent @ 1.5 KLD onto land for plantation after treatment through septic tank, valid upto 30.06.2021 each with condition mentioned therein and special condition that the industry shall submit the license from department of forest, within one month positively. Thereafter, the industry has applied for ‘Consent to Establish’/ NOC expansion through OCMMS for manufacturing of Plywood, Ply Board, Ply, Board, Laminated Board, Door, Panel, Furniture, Saw Mill, Veneer, Flush Door Etc. @ 5000 m2/day. The industry had proposed to install one new thermopac of capacity 30 Lac Kcal in addition to already existing thermopacs. However, the industry had not submitted any certificate/permission from the Department of Forests regarding increase in production machinery like saw mills. Thereafter, ‘Consent to Establish’ /NOC was granted vide no. CTE/Exp/LDH3/2021/15782220 dated 19.10.2021 valid upto 30.06.2022 for plywood, ply board, ply, board, laminated board, door, panel, furniture, saw mill, veneer, flush door etc. @ 5000 Sq.m/day with discharge of trade effluent @ 1.0 KLD onto land for plantation after treatment in ETP and domestic effluent @ 1.5 KLD onto land for plantation after passing through septic tank along with 01 thermopac of capacity 20 Lac KCal with Cyclone separator as APCD and 01 thermopac of capacity 30 Lac KCal with cyclone separator as APCD & 01 DG set of capacity 500 KVA with canopy with condition mentioned therein and special condition that the industry shall submit the license from Department of Forest, within one month positively.  Thereafter, the industry applied for varied ‘Consent to Operate’ under the Water Act, 1974 & the Air Act, 1981 for plywood, ply board, ply, board, laminated board, door, panel, furniture, saw mill, veneer, flush door etc. @ 5000 Sq.m/day with discharge of trade effluent @ 1.0 KLD onto land for plantation after treatment in ETP and domestic effluent @ 1.5 KLD onto land for plantation after passing through septic tank along with 01 thermopac of capacity 20 Lac KCal with Cyclone separator as APCD and 01 thermopac of capacity 30 Lac KCal with cyclone separator as APCD. A clarification was raised to the industry that to submit the license issued by Department of Forests under the name of M/s Ramneek International Pvt. Ltd (Location - I). However, the reply submitted by the industry is not satisfactory. The industry was visited by AEE of this office on 01.08.2022 and it was observed as under: 1.    The industry was not in operation due to low market demand. 2.    The industry has installed two thermopacs of capacity 20 Lac Kcal & 30 Lac Kcal (new) and has provided dust collector followed by cyclone separators as APCD with both thermopacs. 3.    The industry has provided ETP for treatment of trade effluent generated from the glue kettle section. 4.    The industry has installed one DG set of 500 KVA with canopy. The industry was earlier given personal hearing before the Senior Environmental Engineer, Zonal Office-II, Ludhiana on 01.10.2021, where the industry has submitted that it has approached concerned officer at Forest Department to change the name of above said license. According to the Forest Department, it will take 30 days minimum to change the name because this will be rectified from their Chandigarh office and the industry will submit the same after one month. The previous ‘Consent to Operate’ and the ‘Consent to Establish’ (NOC for expansion) was granted only on the condition that the industry shall submit the license from the Forest Department. However, the industry has not submitted the rectified/new forest license. Accordingly, the consent applications applied by the industry under the Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 and Air (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 were refused vide no. CTOW/Varied/LDH3/2022/19368371 and CTOA/Varied/LDH3/2022/1936836 dated 29.08.2022, respectively. Thereafter, a meeting was taken by a Vidhan Sabha Committee regarding Buddha Nallah and River Ghaggar on 29.08.2022 at Vidhan Bhawan, Punjab Vidhan Sabha. Members of the committee raised an issue related to discharge of domestic waste water into borewells by the industries located in Humbran area. Accordingly, Humbran area was visited on 02.09.2022 and it was observed that 40 no. quarters of above said industries are located in the agricultural fields of village Humbran connected through a kacha rasta of length about 4 acres. During visit, it was observed that all labour quarters have been occupied and about 150 persons including children are residing in these quarters. Domestic waste water from these labour quarters was found discharged into 02 borewells. 01 borewell was well type old borewell and entire well was filled with untreated domestic waste water generated from open bathing area. Waste water from toilet section was discharged into borewell after treatment through septic tanks. General housekeeping at labour quarters was extremely poor and municipal solid waste was also found scattered at labour quarters. The report of the same was sent vide e-noting no. 19860408 dated 07.09.2022. Thereafter, a telephonic complaint was received from Dr. K.S. Aulakh, Former Vice Chancellor, PAU, Ludhiana regarding damage of his guava orchid and popular trees due to air pollution. To verify the same, the Humbran area was visited by AEE of this office on 07.09.2022. During visit, the subject cited industry was found emitting thick black smoke. To verify the same, the industry was visited and following observations were made: 1.     The industry was in operation during the visit. 2.     The industry has installed two thermopacks of capacity 15 lacs Kcal and 20 lacs Kcal. However, during visit only one thermopac of capacity 20 Lac Kcal was in operation. The industry was using wood and saw dust as fuel in the furnace of thermopac. The industry has provided dust collector followed by cyclone as APCD alongwith stack of adequate height. The dust collector was found choked. Feeding was done manually by labour on the conveyor belt. 3.     A very thick black smoke was emitting from the chimney of the thermopac. 4.     The industry was discharging water from washing of glue section directly into a tank of size about 25’ X 25’ for stagnation and ETP was not in working. The industry had also failed to submit the forest certificate and the industry had also provided 02 borewells for the disposal of entire domestic effluent generated from labour quarters (reported vide e-noting no. 19860408 dated 07.09.2022) & the industry was running without obtaining Consents of the Board. The report of the same was sent vide e-noting no. 19876904 dated 09.09.2022. Notice u/s 33-A of Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 and u/s 31-A of the Air (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 was also issued to the industry with an opportunity of personal hearing before Chief Environmental Engineer, Ludhiana on 30.09.2022 and it was decided that: 1.       The industry be only allowed to operate on machinery for which the Department of Forest has earlier issued license. 2.       Environmental Engineer, Regional Office-3, Ludhiana shall seal the excess machinery immediately for which the industry has not obtained license from Department of Forest and send the report / recommendations, within 07 days. Meanwhile, industry has again applied for varied ‘Consent to Operate’ under the Water Act, 1974 & the Air Act, 1981. As the industry had failed to submit the forest certificate and the industry had also provided 02 borewells for the disposal of entire domestic effluent generated from labour quarters, the varied ‘Consent to Operate’ under the Water Act, 1974 & the Air Act, 1981 were refused on 24.11.2022. Now, the industry has again applied for varied ‘Consent to Operate’ under the Water Act, 1974 & the Air Act, 1981 for plywood, ply board, ply, board, laminated board, door, panel, furniture, saw mill, veneer, flush door etc. @ 5000 Sq.m/day with discharge of trade effluent @ 1.0 KLD onto land for plantation after treatment in ETP and domestic effluent @ 1.5 KLD onto land for plantation after passing through septic tank along with 01 thermopac of capacity 20 Lac KCal with Cyclone separator as APCD and 01 thermopac of capacity 30 Lac KCal with cyclone separator as APCD. The industry has already deposited Rs. 1,800/- vide UTR. No. AXSK221940022848 dated 13.07.2022 under Water Act, 1974 & Rs. 1,800/- vide UTR. No. AXSK221940022990 dated 13.07.2022 under Air Act, 1981, which is adequate upto 30.09.2026 under both Acts. The industry has also deposited Rs. 10,800/- vide UTR. No. AXSK221940022848 dated 13.07.2022 as NOC regularization fee for increase in fixed assets. As the action against the industry is already under process vide e-noting no. <a href="../../enotification/popPreviousEnoting/19812679">19812679</a> dated 02.09.2022, 19860408 dated 07.09.2022 and 19876904 dated 09.09.2022, it is recommended that : 1.    Application of the industry for obtaining varied ‘Consent to Operate’ under the Water Act, 1974 may be decided in view of the above said e-notings.

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