Thiruvananthapuram: The State Level Expert Assessment Committee (SEAC) under the Department of Environment has decided to recommend the use of CSR funds from the Project Proponent in shopping centers in Akkulam to improve the sepamu processing facilities in the household located in both TS Canal Bank.
The latest SEAC meeting decided to continue this recommendation to the State Environmental Impact Assessment Authority (Seiaa).
Separate DPR must be prepared by the Project Proponent for this initiative.
These recommendations come in the background of one of the conditions in environmental licenses issued for shopping center projects to be spent by 1% initiary of project costs for CSR activities, including adjacent TS canal rejuvenation.
Seiaa in 2019 directs the project initiator to comply with EC conditions on canal rejuvenation.
The initiator then told the committee that they had approached the land navigation department and the Department of Tourism with a request to send 1% of the project costs for the acculated rejuvenation project because TS Canal was part of the akkulam channel.
SEAC observed that there was no action proposed in a detailed project report from the acculam rejuvenation scheme to control pollution control / support in place to avoid the release of waste from households and institutions, by providing a modified soak hole, to ensure secondary treatment of existing septic tanks / Leach hole conversion that has a type of latrine into the septic tank with a soaking pit.
In addition, according to the minutes of the SEAC meeting held in July, there were no proposals for regular septika collection of sanitation facilities in place in the place of Septic Tank / Leach Pits and connecting it to the City Level Waste Processing Plant (STP) in Muttathara or proposal New to build independent septactive processing plants.
The Committee then decided to ask Seiaa to direct the project initiator to prepare separate DPR to explore the possibility of utilizing funds for CSR / corporate environment) funds to clean the TS Canal section, by increasing the maintenance facilities in existing places available in the household and institution, located in the second The edge of the body of the body, by setting the ‘modified pit to the existing septic tank / increased Leach hole that exists into the septic tank with the soak system.
According to Sea, this will help to avoid dismissal of wastewater that is not treated into canals and lakes.
SEAC has directed that the proposal must contain support and facilities to ensure the elimination or collection and collection of septic (mud) of household facilities and institutions in place for Muttathara STP or to the independent processing plant to be established.