Vadodara: National Green Tribunal (NGT) has sentenced 23 industrial units, a general waste processing plant (CETP) and even Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) in Dahej Industrial to violate environmental norms.
Industry, put together, has been slapped with 82 crore rs worth of penalty, while GIDC has slapped RS 6.19 Crore worth compensation for environmental damage, and CETP, Dhaej, has been fined 82 lakh Rs, and the command comes after a joint team of the Central Polution Board and Board Gujarat pollution control conducts industrial inspections that carry wastewater into the GIDC drainage system.
Overall 99 industries including those in the red, orange, large, medium and small industries are releasing waste water into the GIDC Dahej drainage system.
Team together visiting 34 industries in the area, collecting samples from various pump stations and final disposal points from GIDC drainage networks to check the quality of the final discharge.
The majority of industries do not comply with industrial waste norms.
Team together also observed that despite having good infrastructure, CETP Dahej did not work and allowed the flow of waste water directly from the entry room to the final release storage tank without any treatment! It also observed that CETP Dahej did not meet the standard of disposal.
“CETP non-operational conditions from the start showed non-utilization of large investments,” NGT Order states, adding that plants installed, machinery, and sensors will become non-functional non-functional.
Surprisingly, the joint team observed that instead of ridicating industrial waste into the sea through a 4.5km line as suggested by the National Institute of Oceanography, waste was being transferred through a separate pipe near a limited beach only at 600m into the sea.
“Overall the diss of the standard of disposal at the final disposal point, deposition of severe mud, the overflow of a got hole due to choking or leaking from the GIDC drainage line, often overflowing waste water from the got hole and pump, the run-off contaminated from the industry leads to storm waterways or waterways, “it stated.
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