HSPCB Decides to Exempt Green Category Industries form Consent Management

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.

Source: Intelligent Haryana News

Dinesh Singh Rawat Says:

It should be done with care because in name of Green Category Industries we can not over the norms.