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1. RO has not provided its comments on the distance of the proposed site from various approved existing operational industries and units for which specific siting guidelines has been issued by the Board for time to time; as to whether the same is more than the required distance as per the siting criteria(s). The RO is required to submit its comments regarding the same.
Reply: As per the site of the project, the distances are as under:
Sr. No. Type of Industrial unit Required distance as per siting criteria As observed during visit
1. Cement Plant /Grinding Unit 300 m Not located within 300 mtr
2. Rice Sheller/ Salla Plant 500 m Not located within 500 mtr
3. Stone Crushing/ Screening Cum Washing Plant 500 m Not located within 500 mtr
4. Hot Mix Plant 300 m Not located within 300 mtr
5. Brick Kiln 800 m Not located within 800 mtr
6. CBWTF 500 m Not located within 500 mtr
7. Poultry Farm 500 m There are 02 poultry farms at around 400 m from the site.
8. Jaggery Unit 200 m Not located within 200 mtr
However, as per the guidelines vide letter no. 3/6/07/STE(4)/3770 dated 30.10.2009,
“The Master Plan is the final legal solution to planned development and hence the master plans be prepared in a time bound manner on priority. Where statutory master plan has been notified under the Punjab Regional and Town Planning and Development Act, 1995 (Amended) 2006, mixed land use or any other development/construction which come up as per the earmarked zone, in case of new residential/commercial project, there is no need to keep any additional distance from the existing industry from the environment point of view because these factors have already been considered while earmarking the use of land for different categories in the master plan, as per Notification No.6312 dated 11th August, 2009 issued by Department of House & Urban Development.”
As such, the above distances are not applicable as the project is falling in the Industry Mixed Land Use where the residential projects are permissible.
2. In the feasibility report, it has been observed that the estimated population of EWS plots has been taken as 4 persons per plot; which is not aligned with the norms adopted by the Board for estimating population and water requirement for Building Construction/ Area Development projects which were circulated vide Board’s no. 24741-43 dated 30.09.2024.
Reply: As per the calculations the EWS plots has been taken as 4 persons per plot. However, as per the population and water requirement vide letter no. 24741-43 dated 30.09.2024, there is no category mentioned for the EWS plots. However, taking the population as 15 persons/plot as for residential plots, 528 no. of additional population is added results in additional water demand of 71.28 KLD and wastewater generation of 57.02 KLD. Out of which, 23.76 KLD of water will be reused into flushing and 33.26 KLD of additional water will be disposed onto sewer. As such, the STP provided becomes marginally over utilized and additional 100 KLD of treatment facilities required.
3. RO to clarify regarding the present status of terminal STP of Derabassi wherein the project proponent has proposed for disposal of its excess treated effluent and if the said STP has surplus treatment capacity to take up the proposed effluent load.
Reply: The terminal STP of the Derabassi is operational under the capacity and the approvals for connection of sewerage is provided by the EO Derabassi to the projects where sewer line is already laid in consonance to the wastewater generation estimates from those areas. Further, the additional STPs are under the plan for the areas of where connectivity of sewer is not there.
4. The RO has commented that "The project proponent has proposed to develop for establishment of a new Residential colony having 375 no. affordable housing plots, EWS Plots @ 48 Numbers/day, Commercial shops @ 10 no. and Community Centre (Having 2596.35 sq. yard) in an area of 17.66 acres, which is less than 50 hectares, as such, the project is not covered under schedule 8 (b) of the EIA notification dated 2006." However, it is also required to comment on the built-up area of the project based on the max. achievable FAR of all components as per the Punjab Unified Building Rules, 2025 and submit clear comments if the project is covered under the ambit of EIA notification dated 14.09.2006.
Reply: As per the site, the permissible ground coverage is 45738.913 sqm. Further, by taking FAR of 2.1, the total permissible built-up area comes out to be 96146.21 sqm. As such, the total built area will be less than 1,50,000 sqm hence, schedule 8 (b) of the EIA notification dated 2006.
5. It is required to clarify if the engineering and fabrication units mentioned near to the project site in the agenda report, such as Pranav Doors, SG Solar and Road Safety, Anju Industries etc. have any process emission stacks such as powder coating/ spray painting/ shot blasting etc. and the distance of the said industries from the proposed site.
Reply: The industries mentioned in the agenda are the engineering and fabrication industries wherein, no emission stacks have been observed. As such, no powder coating/ spray painting/ shot blasting etc. is done in the industries and the industries are purely engineering and fabrication units with tools such as, presses, drills and welding operations.
Further, the distance of these industries within the 50-150 m of the site.
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