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<p style="text-align: justify;">The report / recommendations of AEE/EE, RO, may kindly be perused.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The industry was given personal hearing before the CEE, Ludhiana on 31.01.2023, wherein it was decided as under:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><!-- [if !supportLists]-->1. <!--[endif]-->The industry shall not operate / trial run its unit till it obtain consent to operate or the Board under Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 and Air (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1981.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><!-- [if !supportLists]-->2. <!--[endif]-->The industry shall ensure that the gradient of plantation area shall not be towards Buddha Nallah to avoid any type of leakage / seepage of effluent into Buddha Nallah. In case, the gradient is towards Budha Nallah, the industry shall make embankment towards Buddha Nallah along its premises.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><!-- [if !supportLists]-->3. <!--[endif]-->The industry shall remove soakage pit and shall dispose off its domestic effluent onto land for plantation after treatment in septic tank/ STP.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><!-- [if !supportLists]-->4. <!--[endif]-->The industry shall operate its ETP properly and efficiently so as to achieve prescribed standards of the Board and shall dispose off its treated trade effluent onto land for plantation as per Karnal Technology.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><!-- [if !supportLists]-->5. <!--[endif]-->The industry shall make agreement with TSDF Nimbuan for lifting of hazardous waste and shall apply for authorization under Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management and Trans boundary Movement) Rules, 2016, immediately.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><!-- [if !supportLists]-->6. <!--[endif]-->The industry shall provide separate hazardous waste storage room for scientific storage of hazardous waste.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><!-- [if !supportLists]-->7. <!--[endif]-->Environmental Engineer, Regional office-3, Ludhiana shall seal the DG set without canopy installed by the industry, immediately.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><!-- [if !supportLists]-->8. <!--[endif]-->Environmental Engineer, Regional Office-3, Ludhiana shall visit the industry to verify the compliance made by the industry, check the type of soil in the plantation area to ensure that no percolation of trade effluent into Buddha Nallah and process consent application of the industry on merit.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">To verify the facts, the industry was visited by officer of RO on 17.02.2023 and it was observed as under:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><!-- [if !supportLists]-->1. <!--[endif]-->The industry was not in operation during visit.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><!-- [if !supportLists]-->2. <!--[endif]-->The industry has provided the plantation in an area of around 01 Acre outside the unit and there is a passage/ distance of around 15 feet between plantation area and Buddha Nallah and plantation area is also lower from the passage around 4-5 feet, hence its slop is not towards Buddha Nallah.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><!-- [if !supportLists]-->3. <!--[endif]-->The industry has also provided plantation inside its unit in pockets around 3 Kanal.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><!-- [if !supportLists]-->4. <!--[endif]-->The industry has installed 3 soft flow machines of 200 Kg each (02 mouth each) and one winch of capacity 200 Kgs for washing & one pole dryer. The machinery was not in operation and there was no raw material. As per study done by the GNE, in such type of units the effluent generation can be around 160 KLD in 24 hours. However, the industry has provided the plantation in an area around 1.4 Acre, hence, the plantation area is adequate for the disposal of treated trade effluent around 100 KLD. The soil seems Sandy in nature.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><!-- [if !supportLists]-->5. <!--[endif]-->The unit closed soakage pit & installed septic tank for disposal onto land for plantation.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><!-- [if !supportLists]-->6. <!--[endif]-->As reported earlier, industry has installed ETP for treatment of Trade Effluent consisting of Equalization tanks, Reactor channel, Flocculator, Tube Settler, Pre-filtration tank, Sand filter, ACF & Outlet.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><!-- [if !supportLists]-->7. <!--[endif]-->Hazardous waste room of 10' X 10' X 9' provided & was empty. The industry informed that they are in process for signing agreement with the TSDF Nimbua.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><!-- [if !supportLists]-->8. <!--[endif]-->The industry has installed one boiler with FBC furnace and twin cyclone as APCD.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><!-- [if !supportLists]-->9. <!--[endif]-->The DG set of the unit has been sealed during visit.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><!-- [if !supportLists]-->10. <!--[endif]-->The site of the industry falls in Industrial Zone as per Master Plant vide STP letter no. 5990 dated 22.11.2010. The CLU is granted for establishment of paper mill. However, the industry has now applied for dyeing unit.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><!-- [if !supportLists]-->11. <!--[endif]-->The industry has not submitted approved building plan from Competent Person/ Authority.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The industry has applied for authorization under HWM Rules, 2016. However, as per the authorization application, the industry has not submitted any agreement with TSDF M/s Nimbuan till date.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As per the project report, the industry has proposed 9 soft flow machines (3x200 kg, 3x300 kg, 3x400 kg) and proposes the discharge of 220 KLD in 3.13 acres of land. However, at present, the industry has installed soft flow machines of capacity 3x200 kg and developed 1.4 acre land which can be used for disposal of 100 KLD of treated effluent.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"> In view of above, it is recommended that consent to operate under Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act 1974 and Air (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 may be granted for six months for the discharge of trade effluent @ 100 KLD onto land for plantation with usual conditions and special condition that:-</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><!-- [if !supportLists]-->1. <!--[endif]-->The industry will ensure that there will be no discharge/ seepage/ surface run of into Buddha Nallah.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><!-- [if !supportLists]-->2. <!--[endif]-->The industry shall ensure that there shall be no stagnation in the plantation area.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><!-- [if !supportLists]-->3. <!--[endif]-->The industry shall not install any new machinery without obtaining NOC of the Board.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><!-- [if !supportLists]-->4. <!--[endif]-->The industry shall make agreement with TSDF m/s Nimbuan, within 1 months.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><!-- [if !supportLists]-->5. <!--[endif]-->The industry shall get its stack emission and effluent samples from Board's lab, within 1 month.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><!-- [if !supportLists]-->6. <!--[endif]-->The industry shall submit approved building plan from Competent Person/ Authority, within 1 month.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Competency : SEE (ZO)</p> |
