Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand has directed the district administration officials to ensure the industrial units strictly follow the environment protection rules.
During the meeting held in district headquarters on Wednesday, he warned of taking stern legal action against industrial units flouting the environment protection laws, officials stated.
He asked the officials to ensure that pollution control equipments such as Electrostatic Precipitators (ESP) are compulsorily installed in the industrial units. The Chief Secretary was in Raigarh along with a team of the senior officials from Raipur.
The Chief Secretary asked the officials to regularly inspect the industrial units and make sure whether safety rules for labourers are followed there.
In view of coming summer season, he told the officials to make advance arrangements for the supply of potable drinking water.
later on, Dhand visited Punji Pathra village in Raigarh and Gadgao in Saraipali. The Chief Secretary inspected livelihood College in Raigarh and reviewed works of various Government schemes and programmes being implemented in the district.
He said any kind of dereliction of duty in executing of public service will not be tolerated.
“Income, cast, domicile, nomination, division-demarcation, map, Khasra, B-1 and other services should be delivered within time limit and even delay of a day will not be accepted,” he said.
Notably in January 7 this year, while taking serious approach towards protecting the city from rising pollution levels, Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand had directed officials of Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board (CECB) attending a meeting in Naya Raipur to ensure regular use of pollution control equipment by industrial units operational in Urla, Borjhara and Siltara zones of the State.
Moreover, Dhand also instructed officials to carry out inspection of units to ensure inspection of pollution control equipment.
Chairing a meeting at the Mantralaya in Naya Raipur, Dhand had given specific directives to CECB officials to ensure strict compliance of environment related rules by industrial units and instructed them to take stern action against units violating the rules.
As per information received, the Chief Secretary has ordered officials to inspection in sponge iron plants, rolling mills, power plants, ferro alloys plants, induction furnace units on a regular basis and guarantee mandatory use of pollution control equipment.
Besides, Dhand also directed officials of Transport Department to chalk out a work plan for subjecting two and four wheelers into pollution check and issuance of fitness certificate after examination.
Similarly, the Chief Secretary had also instructed Raipur Municipal Corporation (RMC) officials to take effective measures for checking pollution from construction works and garbage.
“As many as 20 sponge iron plants and two power plants operational in Raipur have online facility of measuring emission from chimneys and the CECB is undertaking real-time monitoring of these units. The CECB has initiated action against 22 units for not installing online chimney emission measuring equipment,” Board’s Chairman Aman Kumar Singh had informed in the meeting.
Meanwhile, the Chhattisgarh Government has also directed commissioners of various municipal corporations and officials of municipal councils to ensure strict compliance of notification of Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) 2006 during construction of building and township development project in their respective jurisdiction.