CPCB to issue Directions to ensure proper Segregation in Bhiwadi

BHIWADI: The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has asked the Central Pollution Control board (CPCB) to issue directions under Section 18 (1) (b) of the Water Prevention and Control of Pollution Act, 1974 to Rajasthan State Pollution Control board, following the drowning of two children in a pond with industrial effluents and domestic sewage at Village Saeedpur, Dharuhera, in April 2017.  Under the act, CPCB has directed Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board (RSPCB) to ensure: Proper collection, treatment and disposal of effluents and sewage at Bhiwadi industrial area, including the surrounding villages;

The Bhiwadi Municipal Council (BMC), Rajasthan State Industrial Development & investment Corporation (RIICO) and Rajasthan Housing Board (RHB) submit time-bound action plans individually/jointly for setting up of sewerage system for proper collection, treatment and disposal of sewage and industrial effluents generated at Bhiwadi and the villages in its vicinity to RSPCB.

That RSPCB will examine the action plans submitted at its level and get them modified. That RSPCB will forward the action plans to CPCB by September 29, 2017;That the effluents from existing cesspools created due to indiscriminate disposal of untreated/partially treated effluents and sewage will be pumped to the newly-created Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs) and existing CETP for treatment and such pits shall be kept dry.