First meeting of State Environment Impact Assessment Authority on Thursday saw the participants agreeing to formulate certain criterions that would be looked into while giving or rejecting environmental clearances. The Authority would look into proposal coming for environmental clearances for industries small in nature on State level.
On official present in the meeting said that it was more introductory in nature. “It was the first meeting of the Environment Impact Assessment Authority. The participants discussed about fixing the criterions based on those any clearances would be given or denied to the industries or projects. The authority would meet after a month for the next time,” he said.
In another development the Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board has taken firm step towards the seizure of bank guarantee for Bokaro Steel limited and Chandrapura Thermal Power Station; the DVC-owned power company. “We have called the officials of both the companies on April 17 to present their view and comply with the set environmental norms. If they don’t comply then we would the forfeit the bank guarantee,” said JSPCB Chairman Mani Shankar.
BSl has bank guarantees of Rs 50 lakh with pollution control broad whereas the power station has Rs 25 lakh. The Board had conducted a surprise inspection of the environmental compliances the companies adhered to and issued notices to them
subsequently for certain
violations.