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It is intimated that the industry is a Large scale unit and was granted consent to operate under the Water Act, 1974 vide no. CTOA/Renewal/LDH1/2019/9502937 dated 10/06/2019, valid upto 31/03/2024 for the manufacturing of Steel Forging & Fence Fitting @ 22500 MT/year.
Now, the industry has applied for obtaining renewal of 'consent to operate' under the Air (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 with requisite documents through OCMMS. The industry has deposited consent fee against the un-depreciated of fixed assets of Rs. 4972.84 lacs as on 31/03/2023 as per CA Certificate dated 20/01/2024. The consent fee deposited by the industry is adequate upto 31/03/2029 as per Board's Office Order dated 29/10/2018.
The industry was visited by undersigned along ASO, Zonal Lab, Ludhiana on 29.02.2024 and it was observed as under:
1. The industry was in operation & is engaged in manufacturing of forged components.
2. The manufacturing process of the industry is as under:
Raw Material storage and Inspection - Cutting- Forging - Machining – Marking – Serration – Phosphating – Painting (with brush) – Final Inspection, Packing & Dispatch.
3. It has installed 7 no. FO fired furnaces having stacks of adequate height.
4. As per analysis report received from Zonal Lab, SPM is reported as 104 mg/Nm3 (Forging furnace no. 2) and 81 mg/Nm3 (Forging furnace no. 3) i.e. within the prescribed standards of the Board.
5. It has installed 2 no. shot blasting machines with separate bag house filter as APCD and adequate stack height.
6. It has also installed 1 no. FO fired heat treatment furnace.
7. The industry has installed ETP followed by RO system the components installed at site were collection tank – clarifier - storage tank – RO system.
8. The ETP as well as RO system installed by the industry was in operation during visit.
9. The industry is maintaining the record for water consumption/ETP installed by the industry.
10. The domestic effluent is discharged into sewer.
It is therefore recommended that 'consent to operate' under the Air (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 may be renewed upto 31/03/2029 with suitable conditions as per policy of the Board.
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