The HP State Pollution Control Board Chairman, Kuldeep Singh Pathania on Wednesday held a meeting with the representatives of highly polluting 17 categories of industries for monitoring of pollution on a real time basis. The industries included cement, bulk drug pharma, distilleries, common hazardous waste & bio-medical waste treatment facilities. Officials said the primary objective of the meeting was to assess the progress of pollution control in general and installation of real time online monitoring equipments for realistic assessment of pollution levels and compliance to the norms by these industries.
About 40 representatives from 23 highly polluting industrial units participated in the meeting. It was also attended by the Member Secretary, Vineet Kumar, other senior officers and the Regional Officers of the Board. Pathania apprised the industrial units about the necessity of proper monitoring in view of the technologies available and dissemination of this monitoring data to the CPCB and the State Pollution Control Boards.
The Chairman also apprised the representatives of the industries that the provisions of online device has also been mandated by the CPCB by way of direction to all the SPCBs. He said the time limit given for installation of such equipment is going to expire by the end of this month and those units which donot compliant may face action as per provisions of law.