Pollution board notice to HSVP

Mukesh Tandon

Tribune News Service

Panipat, July 20

The Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) has served a notice to the Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP) for not maintaining and operating common effluent treatment plant (CETP) in Sector 29 (part-2).

According to sources, teams of the HSPCB have collected samples of water discharged from the common treatment plant (CTP) operated by the HSVP in Sector 29 (part-2) in months April, May and June. More than 350 registered dying units are in Sector 29 (part-2) here and discharging approximately 40-45 MLD water per day, but the CETP was only of capacity 21MLD.

On the basis of the sample reports, regional officer, HSPCB, has served notices to the HSVP engineering wing to operate and maintain the CETP properly.

As per the sources, there are around 350 dying units registered with the board and it was observed that around 40-45 MLD (million litre per day) water was discharged from the units. But the CETP established by the HSVP was of only capacity of 21 MLD which had failed to treat the total discharged water, said the sources.

Nem Chand Jain, a social activist, said, the actual situation in the industrial Sector 29 (part-2) was that chemically treated effluent discharged from the dying units was flowing freely without treatment on roads and through open drains in the sector.

The main road of the sector was closed due to the overflow of the untreated chemical water and trees in the green belt were totally damaged due to it, he added.

Besides, some dying units were also operational in Sector 29 (part-1) illegally and some were operating their units in other areas of the city and adjoining village areas illegally and threw their chemically treated effluents openly which was dangerous to human life, he asserted.

Bhupender Singh Chahal, regional officer, HSPCB, said, notices had been served to the engineering department of the HSVP after the sample report was found to be unsatisfactory.

Meanwhile, Jagmal Singh, XEN, HSVP, said our system was online and it was monitored by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) regularly. The reports sent by the RO, HSPCB, were confusing because these were accurate at our end, he claimed.

The CETP of capacity 21 MLD was established in 2009, but the discharge from the industries doubled in last some years. That’s why, we had planned another CETP of 21MLD capacity in the same area, he added.

It is being established in around 18 acre land at a tentative cost of Rs 45 crore, he said. The new CETP would be operational up to August 31, the XEN claimed.