STEPS TO CHECK INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION IN DELHI
The Government of
the National Capital Territory of Delhi has reported that it has
taken/propose to take adequate steps to check industrial pollution
in Delhi so that health of the citizens is not adversely affected.
Some of these are: -
- Setting of fifteen Combined Effluent
Treatment Plants (CETPs) to treat industrial effluent generated
from 21 industrial areas of National Capital Territory (NCT)
of Delhi is under progress.
- Delhi Pollution Control Committee
(DPCC) is monitoring Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs) to have
a close watch on the degree of treatment provided to domestic
sewage. New stringent norms with respect to Biological Oxygen
Demand (BOD) and Total Suspended Solids (TSS) have been specified
for the new STPs coming up in Delhi.
- The emissions of Thermal Power
Plants have been brought within the prescribed standards.
- In pursuance of the orders of
Hon’ble Supreme Court in CWP No. 4677/85, a number of ‘H’ category
industrial units (as per MPD – 2001) operating in the NCT of
Delhi have been closed down. Further in compliance of the orders
of Hon’ble Supreme Court, under the supervision of Nodal Agency
and Govt. of NCT of Delhi a number of Polluting units functioning
in non-confirming/residential areas in Delhi have been identified
and closed down.
- Steps have been taken/proposed
to be taken to enforce the rules prescribed for Bio-Medical
Waste, Hazardous Waste and Noise Pollution.
This information
was given by Shri Pon. Radhakrishnan, Minister of State for Urban
Development and Poverty Alleviation in a written reply to a question
of Shri T.S. Bajwa in Rajya Sabha today.
