Haryana pollution board serves closure notice to 10 illegal dyeing units

Tribune News Service

Panipat, November 14

The Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) has served closure notice on 10 illegal jeans dyeing units in the Ferozpur Bangar area of Sonepat district for violating pollution norms and disposing of chemical effluents directly in drains.

The industries were found running illegally without having no objection certificate (NOC) during a raid by the HSPCB on the complaint of an environment activist.

It was also found that all these units were unnamed and operating without any valid consent to operate (CTO) and consent to establishment (CTE) during a physical survey conducted by the HSPCB officials.

Varun Gulati, a Delhi-based environmentalist, in his complaint to the HSPCB in September this year, had said scores of industrial units at Ochandi Border (Delhi-Haryana border) and in the Ferozpur Bangar area of Sonepat district were openly violating pollution norms.

He further alleged that all these units were running for the past several years here without the CTO and were the main source of water pollution in the area.

These units were polluting groundwater as well as water bodies by discharging untreated contaminated effluents in open drains without treatment.

“I have identified around 25 such illegal units at Auchandi Border and Ferozepur Bangar area and also given the geo-locations of all these units to the HSPCB in my complaint,” said Gulati.

Following the complaint, the HSPCB team conducted a survey and identified 10 denim-dyeing units found operational at the Auchandi border area and in Ferozepur Bangar area.

After that, the HSPCB served show-cause notices to these units, but didn’t get any satisfactory reply from the unit owners, said sources.

Bhupender Singh Chahal, regional officer, HSPCB, Sonepat, said during the survey, 10 units were identified in the area. All units were illegal as these had no CTO, CTE or any other approval from the board, he said.

Also, the units did not have any effluent treatment plant (ETP) and were discharging effluents directly into the drains, the RO said.

The HSPCB had also found 42 illegal denim dyeing units at the Pyau Manyari and Friends Colony in the Kundli area of Sonepat earlier. The HSPCB had served closure notices to these 42 units around two months ago.

Violations galore

The units were found running illegally without no-objection certificate from HSPCB. These were also discharging untreated contaminated effluents in open drains.

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