The Hindu Business Line : Drive to check industrial pollution in Haryana

THE Haryana State Pollution Control Board has ecided to constitute a State-level Environmental Grievances Committee and a Regional Environmental Grievances Committee to control industrial pollution in the State.

According to the PCB Chairman, Mr H.S. Bains, the committees would include the president and general secretaries of industrial associations or chambers and non-Governmental organisations operating in that area as their members.

The board had already displayed slogans on Haryana buses and would start this campaign again from September 1, he added.

The board had also launched a mass awareness campaign to educate school children through eco clubs.

The Union Government had financed 1,900 schools under eco club scheme and the remaining 750 schools were being financed by the State.

The board had persuaded electroplating units to shift from residential areas to approved industrial areas with common effluent treatment plants in Faridabad.

As many as 150 units had already shifted and 100 units were in the process. The number of pollution control measures installed in the industries had also increased from 1,765 to 5,460 during the last three years.

The pollution in Yamuna river had also been brought under control, he claimed.

Mr Bains said that the board had adopted a pro-active approach and had done away with the sampling as a prerequisite for grant of consent to the units which had applied before March 31.

Now, the board was holding camps to grant consent to the units under the extension scheme for the next year.

He further disclosed that the board had prepared an action plan for the improvement of ambient air quality in Faridabad town by checking vehicular, industrial and other kind of pollution. Almost all the industries covered under the Air Pollution Act and using fuel other than oil and electricity had already installed air pollution control devices in their units.

In the thermal plants, best quality of coal with high calorific value and low ash contents was being used and fly ash was being pumped out in a valley type particular place situated at 8 km from the city to reduce pollution.

It was proposed to increase the number of air quality monitoring stations. Incinerators had also been installed at the major hospitals.

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