Common effluent plant to be set up in city

Tribune News Service

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Jalandhar, March 29

To facilitate industries falling in the districts of Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Nawanshahr and Amritsar, the Jalandhar Effluent Treatment Society (JETS) is soon going to install a common effluent treatment plant (CETP) in the Industrial Focal Point (Extension) area here.

The plant, besides recycling waste of industries in Jalandhar, will recycle waste from the vicinity as well.

Society president Ashwini Victor said the necessary clearances were already given by the state-level Environment Impact Assessment Authority (EIAA) and the plant would work based on the criteria of Zero Liquid Discharge. “Till date, the industries of Amritsar, Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur and Ludhiana are transporting their common effluents through tankers to Ludhiana. However, with the setting up of this CETP, their transportation cost will be reduced and so will be the pollution level,”said Victor.

The society has invited expression of interest by March 16 and is planning to operate it on the build-operate-transfer (BOT) basis.

It was in 2011 that industries based in Jalandhar had begun to transport effluents to Ludhiana to reduce pollution in KaIi Bein. According to the PPCB officials, 300 electroplating units of Jalandhar were discharging over a million litres of polluted water which was being thrown into the Kala Sanghia drain through the municipal sewerage lines.