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It is submitted that Regional Office has forwarded the case for grant of consents to operate under the Water Act, 1974 & Air Act, 1981 to the marriage palace / resort as per the details mentioned in the agenda note. The agenda note has been examined & observed as under:-
1. The palace has been established without the Consent to Establish (NOC) of the Board.
2. Notice u/s 33-A of the Water Act, 1974 & show cause notice for violation of the provisions of Air Act, 1981 was issued to the industry vide Zonal office letter no. 3917 & 3915 dt 21.12.2015, respectively with an opportunity of personal hearing before the Chief Environmental Engineer, at Zonal office, Bathinda on 08.01.2015, which was attended by Sh. Harminder Singh, representative of the palace wherein following decisions were taken by the Competent Authority:-
a) The marriage palace will apply for consent to operate under the Water Act, 1974 & Air Act, 1981 within 7 days.
b) Environmental Engineer, Regional Office, Bathinda will visit the palace, verify the facts and submit report with recommendations within 2 weeks.
3. Now, the palace has applied for consents to operate under the Water Act, 1974 & Air Act, 1981/regularization through OCMMS on 30.06.2016 under orange category for operation of marriage palace of capacity 600 persons per function and submitted undertaking through Sh. Gurcharan Singh Virk, Prop. of the palace declaring as under:-
a) That palace has already provided adequate oil & grease trap unit followed by well-designed septic tank.
b) That palace has already installed treatment facility as per treatment mythology.
4. The palace has submitted copy of letter no.1283 dt. 26.06.2015 issued by Executive Officer, Municipal Council, Gidderbaha, Distt. Sri Muktsar Sahib (copy attached).
5. Also a copy of building plans approved from M.C. Gidderbaha are attached with the application. Therefore, the site of the marriage palace can be regularized keeping in view of the policy of the Board dt. 10.10.2011.
6. The palace was visited by officer of Regional Office on 10.07.2016 and it was observed as under –
a) The marriage palace has functional hall of capacity of 300 persons to carryout functions. No function was being carried out at the time of visit.
a. The marriage palace has not provided proper treatment facility with toilet section or kitchen section, instead a single tank is provided with these sections, from where the effluent is discharged into M.C. sewer.
b) The marriage palace has installed D.G set capacity 82.5 KVA with canopy and stack of adequate height.
c) The marriage palace is lifting off its municipal solid waste from M/s JITF Urban Infrastructure Management (Bathinda) Pvt. Ltd., Bathinda, copies of lift of the municipal solid waste are attached.
7. As per Board's letter no. SEE(HQ-2)/2016/26641-59 dt 12.05.2016, a final treatment methodology to be adopted for treatment of effluent generated from marriage palace is yet to be finalized in consultation with GNDU, Amritsar. Therefore, it has been decided by the Competent Authority of the Board that marriage palace may be issued consent to operate for the period for which the consent fee deposited by owner of marriage palace, with the condition that the marriage palace shall provide adequate oil & grease traps unit followed by well-designed septic tank before the next marriage season i.e. September 2016 and further that they will install the ETP as per treatment methodology finalized by the Board, within a period of six months thereafter.
Regional Office has recommended that consents to operate under the Water Act, 1974 and Air Act, 1981 may be granted to the marriage palace for a period up to 30.09.2020, subject to the suitable conditions and specific conditions that –
1. That palace will provide adequate oil & grease trap unit followed by well-designed septic tank before the next marriage season i.e. by September 2016 for treatment of effluent generated from kitchen section and sanitation section.
2. That palace will install treatment facility as per treatment mythology finalized for marriage palaces in the State of Punjab within a period of six months thereafter.
3. The marriage palace will comply with the Noise (Control & Regulation) Pollution Rules, 2000.
If approved, action as proposed by EE, Regional Office may be taken please.
(Competency – CEE)
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