Cement, Energy and Environment

I Government Notifications 4;~~ S4C!E40J Pflj?fOJ ~ CENTRAL POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD (~ ~ CR ~. 1fffi1' ~) (MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT & FORESTS, GOVT. OF INDIA) Speed Post B-400(T)/TechnicalfPCI-III/2014-15 July 16, 2015 To, The Chairman, (Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Jharkhand & Uttarakhand, Haryana, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and UT of Delhi) Revised Modified Direction under section 18(1) (b) of the Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act. 1974 to Textile Units & clusters. WHEREAS, among others, under Section 17 of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974, one of the functions of the State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)/Pollution Control Committee (PCC), constituted under the Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 is to plan comprehensive programmes for prevention, control of abatement of pollution of streams and .wells located in the StatesjUTs and to secure the execution thereof; and WHEREAS, the Central Government has notified the standards for discharge of environmental pollution from various categories of industries under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 and the rul~s farmed there under; and WHEREAS, the CPCB and SPCBs have been .pursuing the polluting industries to install effluent treatment plants (ETPs) to comply with the effluent discharge standards as notified under the Environment (Protection) act, 1986 and the Rules framed there under; and WHEREAS, the SPCBs/PCCs can stipulate more stringent standards for discharge of environmental pollution from various categories of industries than those notified by the Central Government, under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 and rules framed there under; and WHEREAS, various industrial units including Textile manufacturing units located in the Ganga Basin states discharge effluent in the River Ganga and its tributaries or in catchment of Ganga basin, which adversely affect the water quality of River Ganga; and WHEREAS, CPCB issued directions on February 24, 2015, to nine Ganga basin states to implement Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) based CETP in composite textile plants and implement ZLD based ETPs in all Textile industries and clusters in the state, and further issued modified direction on 22-04-2015: and ·s&v m· a@ oo " w neww 'Parivesh Bhawan', East Arjun Nagar, Delhi -110032 Page 1 '7r!T1J Tol 43102030. MJ' Fax 22105793, 22307078 22307079 22301932. 22304948 !' l'l(-l e-ma1l cpcb@n1c m i.!~ Webs1te . W'Nwcpcb n1c 1n 17