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Committee recommendations

  • Set up environment courts for quick and effective justice
  • Polluting MNCs be checked upon
  • Reduce the number of Board members (not the technical staff) for quick decision making process
  • One CPCB zonal office be established in each state
  • Increase number of air monitoring stations from 332 to 1,000
  • Common effluent treatment plants be constructed and operated by state boards; industries to share the cost
  • Increase groundwater monitoring in areas around distilleries, power plants, paper plants
  • Guidelines for establishment and recognition of laboratories be framed and notified
  • The authority to recognize them be given to cpcb instead of MoEF
  • cpcb be given power to guide and penalize SPCBs that are lackadaisical
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