Chandigarh (I-Haryana News): Haryana State Pollution Control Board
(HSPCB) has decided that the green category industries will be kept out
of purview of consent management except for six categories namely
assembly of acid led battery; polythene and plastic processed products
manufacturing; poultry, hatchery and piggery; printing press (large and
medium); ready mix concrete plants as well as mineralized water and
carbonated bottling plants.
However, green categories of units will have to install pollution
control devices and in case of non compliance of these instructions,
action would be taken against them as per law.
A decision to this effect was taken in a meeting of HSPCB held today
under the Chairmanship of Mr P. K. Gupta, Chairman of the Board
Regarding the criteria for existing screening plants, the Board has
given some relaxation in parameters of screening plants operating before
October 2, 2007, provided these units take pollution control measures
such as three settling tanks and boundary wall of ten feet.
Provisional consent would be given to the new units provided they
meet all other conditions except environmental clearance. It will only
be for the purpose of obtaining clearance from other Government
Departments.
Regarding grant of consent to units located in non conforming areas,
the Board has decided that units located in non conforming areas would
be considered on year-to-year basis by the Board for grant of consent
provided they install necessary pollution control devices.
This would be applicable only to those units which were operational
before April 1, 2011. However, no such consent would be granted to units
located in approved residential areas developed by Haryana Urban
Development Authority, Town and Country Planning Department, Haryana
State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation, Housing
Board and Municipal authorities.
Green category units included aluminium utensils from aluminium
circles, assembly of air coolers or conditioners, repairing and
servicing, assembly of bicycles, baby carriage and other small
non-motorised vehicles, automobile fuel outlet only dispensing,
Ayurvedic and Homeopathic medicine without boiler, bailing hydraulic
press of waste papers, bakery, confectionery, sweets production (with
production capacity of less than one tpd with oil, gas or electrical
oven), bio fertilizer and bio-pesticide without using inorganic
chemicals, biomass briquettes sun drying without using toxic or
hazardous wastes, biscuit trays from rolled PVC sheet, blending and
packaging of tea, blending of melamine resins and different powder,
additives by physical mixing.
Other such categories included block making for printing without
foundry, brass and bell metal utensils manufacturing from circle, candy,
cardboard or corrugated box and paper products, carpentry and wooden
furniture manufacturing with the help of electrical machines such as
electric wood planner, steel saw cutting circular blade, cement products
like pipe, pillar, jafri, well ring, blocks or tiles, ceramic colour
manufacturing, chalk making from plaster of paris, chilling plant and
ice making without use of ammonia, coated electrode manufacturing,
compact disc, computer floppy and cassette manufacturing, compressed
oxygen gas from crude liquid oxygen, carbon dioxide recovery, cotton and
woolen hosiery making, cotton spinning and weaving, decoration of
ceramic cups and plates by electric furnace, diesel generator sets,
diesel pump repairing and servicing distilled water, electric lamp or
bulb manufacturing, electrical and electronic items assembling,
flavoured bettle nut production or grinding, flour mills, fly ash bricks
or blocks manufacturing. Similarly, the other such categories are
fountain pen manufacturing, glass ampules and vials making from glass
tubes, glass putty and sealant, glass, ceramic, earthen potteries and
tile manufacturing using electrical kiln or not involving fossil fuel
kilns, gold and silver smithy, groundnut decorticating, handloom or
carpet weaving, hotels, insulation and other coated papers
manufacturing, jobbing and machining, leather cutting and stitching,
leather footwear and leather products, lubricating oils, greases or
petroleum based products, manufacturing of coir items from coconut husk,
manufacturing of metal caps, containers, manufacturing of optical
lenses using electrical furnace, manufacturing of pasted veneers without
using boiler or thermic fluid heater or by sundrying, manufacturing of
shoe brush and wire brush, manufacturing of silica gel without furnace,
medical oxygen, oil mill ghani and extraction, organic and inorganic
nutrients, organic manure, paints and varnishes, packing of powdered
milk, paper pins and u-clips, phenyl or toilet cleaner formulation and
bottling, reel manufacturing, power looms, puffed rice, reprocessing of
waste cotton, rope, rubber goods industry, scientific and mathematical
instruments manufacturing, soap manufacturing, solar module
manufacturing unit, solar power generation through solar photovoltic
cell, wind power and mini hydel power less than 25 MW, spice grinding
less than 20 HP motor, steel furniture without spray painting, steeping
and processing of grains, surgical and medical products not involving
effluent or emission generating processes, synthetic detergent
formulation, Teflon based products tyres and tubes retreading.
Dinesh Singh Rawat Says:
It should be done with care because in name of Green Category Industries we can not over the norms.