Ranchi: The red brick industry, which is accused of polluting the environment, has appealed to policy makers to weigh the pros and cons before making “difficult to follow” norms.
Brick producers, which are ready to choose cleaning technology, skeptics that strict laws can encourage small and medium business owners from trade.
The manufacturer is also skeptical about their future after a carbon phase policy at the center.
There are around 2,000 plus brick kilns in the state that provide direct and indirect work to more than three lakh people.
According to estimates, this industry provides work for 120-150 days a year with an average wage of Rs 500 per head.
Despite choosing ‘environmentally friendly technology’, the brick kiln is still considered a polluter industry and they are often under the lens of environmental activists bricks that have been increased to Zig-Zag Kiln Zig-zag which is fuel-efficient than the old Trench Chimney Bull fixed model (FCBT) , which is considered ‘very polluting’.
“In the 1990s, brick burning operators obeyed the norms and turned to the chimney remained from the moving and in 2003, they adopted the draft Zig-Zag model to increase efficiency and reduce emissions,” said President JPbma Kumar Singh.
.the zig-zag kiln is equipped with a booster to burn coal more efficiently, thereby reducing the consumption of 60% of what is required in FCBT model.Recently, the National Green Tribunal has passed an order to shut down the operation of coal-based Zig-Zag gradually Kilns in Delhi to protect highly polluted areas.
Even though Jharkhand hasn’t given the order like that, Singh is worried if so, the trade will go to the hands of the big corporation.
“Manufacturers turn to PNG and burning combustion CNG but it will be too expensive for small traders,” said Singh.
He showed that Jharkhand became a rich coal country, they preferred to use coal so there was a balance between input and output C OST.
“There is an effort to encourage flying bricks, but they are not durable and environmentally friendly and therefore, red bricks continue to remain a building block that is preferred since thousands of years,” he said.
Last year in September, JPBMA has asked the state government state to free the brick kiln to obtain a certificate of ‘Environmental Permit’ for digging the ground to 2m and said that it should not be considered a mining.
This association is still awaiting a response from the government.
“The neighboring countries of West Bengal and Bihar have released a brick kiln so as not to get an EC certificate to dig land up to 1.5 m and is permitted according to a letter issued by the Ministry of Forest and Environment, the Indian government on March 28, 2009 2020,” he said Singh added, “Kinari has empowered countries to make their own rules to dig clay,” Singh said.