India Enforcing Compliance to Environmental Standards
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Government
CPCB Set up a Mechanism for Carrying out Surprise Inspectionsand Assessment of Levels of Pollution of Industrial UnitsIn India
"CPCB has set up a mechanism under its Environmental Surveillance Squad (ESS) programme for carrying out surprise inspections and assessment of levels of pollution of industrial units based on adoption of a uniform approach and elimination of subjectivity in scheduling inspections," he said.
Javadekar said that in addition, the surprise inspections were carried out to check the adequacy of pollution control systems and status of compliance to the prescribed standards by the industries including steel, textile and sugar plants.
He said that based on the inspections,CPCBhas issued directions to the defaulting industries under section 5 ofEnvironment(Protection) Act 1986 and to theState Pollution Control Boardunder section 18 of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act 1974 and section 18 of the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981.
As per the directions, they have been asked to submit bank guarantee at the rate of 25 per cent of the cost of online monitoring systems for ensuring timely installation of online monitoring systems.
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