Water pollution in Solan of Himachal Pradesh is continuously going on. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has slammed the HP State Pollution Control Board for ‘inaction’ against industrial units polluting water bodies in the state.
As per a report of The Tribune (a leading English daily), the observation was made in a case pertaining to pollution in Balad river on account of leakage from a common effluent treatment plant.
“Merely keeping an eye on units discharging more than 200 kilo-litres per day (KLD) effluents is not enough. Violations by those discharging less than 200 KLD effluents are no less serious,” it observed.
Auro Textiles, Auro Textiles unit-II, Auro Dyeing and Winsome Textile are yet to install advance system for treating fixed dissolved solids (FDS), a category IV effluent comprising concentrated dyes. The pipeline carrying these effluents was found choked. The NGT has directed the state board to take remedial action to enforce environment laws.
It is pertinent to mention here that earlier also these units have been directed to close operations of their dyeing processes as their effluents have rendered the common effluent treatment plant (CETP) defunct. On 6 January 2021, apparelresources.com had reported about the same.
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A four-member joint committee, comprising representatives of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Central Pollution Control Board, state board and district magistrate, has been directed to file a status report after inspecting the erring units.
The NGT expressed serious concern over the fact that four textile units of Baddi are still not meeting water pollution norms and fixed dissolved solids (FDS) released by them were beyond the prescribed limit.
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