Pune: Members Only Bench Five, led by the Chairman of the Green Tribunal (NGT) Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel, has formed a high-power committee to examine whether the current location of the animal incinerator PMC, as well as fuel and revised material.
Plant Recovery Facility, in Keshavnagar in Mundhwa fit or if there is an alternative.
In the absence of alternatives, the committee must examine if the factory will continue in accordance with the applicable norms and conditions that can be allowed.
The panel, consisting of a secretary for urban development, environment, income and veterinary medicine and animal husbandry, the central pollution control board and Maharashtra, have been given three months to submit its report after a visit on site and set up a company.
Action Plan On Business and Operation of incinerators, Livestock Warehouse and Material Recovery Facility.
“On hearing the last, (reported by TOI on December 6, 2021), NGT has held the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on operated an incinerator animal until a hearing next one and the same thing goes for this issue will occur at a hearing next May 10th,” Attorney Saurabh Kulkarni, who represented the applicant Mohan nanasaheb Kudale, told WeCneday.
“Special Bench hearing problems on January 17 in which the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board report, Affidavit PMC and other documents to be considered,” he told TOI.
Through the petition, Kudale alleges that the plant was operated without a valid environmental permit under the environmental impact assessment notification of 2006 issued by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change.
Petition also raises concerns about the health hazards posed to residents around the plant and the pollution and stench caused by the facility.
Which previously formed a joint committee to NGT has reported that an environmental permit is not required but compliance with environmental norms like providing a buffer zone with a thick green belt, a system for trapping dust, waste separation and RDF plant is required.
Also, it was reported that the placement of these plants may not be suitable to be close to human dwellings and at mutha.
Kulkarni said, “On January 17th, Desk NGT take exception to two factors – the plants do not have the necessary permissions and that the PMC has changed the land use from cattle to build the incinerator after securing the mainland after the securing of the collector district.” He said, “In statement, MPCB told the court that the PMC operates (before the command restrain) incinerator with only the approval to operate while, it did not have authorization to plant-derived fuels revisions (intended for Producing fuel from wet waste) where the Council has twice refused PMC request.
the body of the Civic and then writing to the board that it will make a material recovery facility which will not require a buffer zone norms, but the problem has not been resolved, “said Kulkarni.
Taking all these factors, NGT choose to set up a high-power panel will now examine the suitability or alternative sites for incinerators and factories fuel and revised material recovery, he added.
Committee to check the place of animal incinerators in Pune
