PANIPAT: Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) served closure notices to 12 textile units for flouting emission norms in Panipat and Sonepat. The closure order stated, “The textile industries are identified as one of the grossly polluting units as they are discharging effluents directly or indirectly on land and into water and can potentially cause adverse effects on land and water quality.”
The directions were issued under Section 5 of the Environment (Protection) Act and after an investigation of these units conducted by CPCB in April 2019. The investigating team has reported that the effluent samples which were collected from the effluent treatment plants (ETP) of most of the units were found over the prescribed limit. They also discovered an unmaintained daily log for groundwater extraction from the borewell and an unkempt record of the waste disposal from the units.
The units which have flouted the emission norms are ordered to close all operations with an immediate effect and the operations will not resume until the factories comply with the norms and get a written permission from the board.