Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
• Lack of environment policy/policy statement: Let alone having a comprehensive environmental policy statement, most of these companies do not even have a general environment policy statement. They have not made any effort to set up an environment department l Poor at fibre sourcing: Most of the companies source their …
Grasim Industries Ltd has a plant along the river Chaliyar at Mavoor, district Kozhikode, Kerala. It produces rayon-grade pulp and is entirely based on bamboo and wood for raw materials. The mill claims that it has an environmental policy statement, though no document has been provided to substantiate the same. …
As the name suggests, Mukerian Papers Ltd ( mpl ) has its plant at Mukerian, about 40 km from Pathankot in Punjab. Although mpl has been making profits in the past, its turnover and profitability have declined continuously since 1996-97. The company does not have a documented environmental policy statement, …
Amrit Paper Mills ( apm ) has a plant at Saila Khurd in Hoshiarpur district, Punjab. Though the company claims to have an environmental policy, it seems doubtful as no documented proof of the policy has been provided. The company also claims to have environment departments both at the corporate …
Fibre requirements of the pulp and paper sector are met by bamboo, hard wood, agrowaste and wastepaper. The amount of land required by a mill to meet its raw material needs equals the ecological burden that the mills' fibre sourcing has on the environment. The average Indian mills footprint is …
Mind your business Good environmental performance makes good business sense. And to support this rationale, CSE analysed the financial performance of the 28 firms that had been rated. The conclusion: there is a 60 per cent likelihood of a mill with fairly good environmental performance churning out profits (see graph: …
The 1988 National Forest Policy ( nfp ), among other things, envisaged a forest cover of 33.3 per cent of the total land area. Sadly, it has remained just a vision. Down to a paltry 11.7 per cent, there is further threat that this may reach a single digit figure. …
A 1989 study conducted by the Bureau of Industrial Costs and Prices showed that the pulp and paper mills in India consumed around 805 million cubic metres (cum) of water to produce 2.7 million tonnes of paper
Till the 1960s, the pulp and paper market was dominated by family-owned big industrial houses such as the Birlas and Thapars. They availed of all the sops given to the industry and built their empires on the foundation of a paper or pulp ind ustry. Then entered public sector underdertakings …
Whether state pollution control boards (SPCBs) are doing their work is anybody's guess. One of the loopholes discovered by CSEwas when it came to SPCBs granting yearly consent to companies to operate their plants. The PCB is supposed to check whether the company is adhering to the pollution limits set …
Company that had an environment policy before GRP started J K CorpCompanies that adopted an environment policy after receiving CSE's questionnaireCentury Pulp & Paper Star Paper MillsPudumjee Pulp & Paper Mills LtdAndhra Pradesh Pulp & Paper Mills LtdSinar Mas Pulp & Paper LtdITC-Bhadrachalam Paperboards LtdSouth India Viscose LtdTamil Nadu Newsprint …
Being environment-friendly is not only a moral obligation, it also makes good economic sense... I think ultimately a country like India cannot be governed by accepted regulations, so we must develop a more participatory style of management and regulations which rely more on self-performance and self-improvement rather than mere regulations. …
T he pulp and paper industry is one of the oldest industries in India: the first paper mill was set up as early as 1832 at Serampore in Hooghly district of West Bengal. But in terms of production capacity, the industry remains very small. The mills have an aggregate capacity …
Many recent pollution prevention efforts in the pulp and paper industry have focused on getting rid of the use of chlorine for bleaching, a process which helps to increase the brightness of the paper. Elemental chlorine (that is, pure chlorine) or chlorine dioxide is generally used for bleaching but, in …
Since the establishment of the first paper mill in 1832, the paper industry has been a pampered and protected one. The government has consistently helped industry exploit the country's forests and rural poor by supplying raw materials at unrealistically low prices. In 1981-82 for instance, the paper industry paid the …
For most of us, recycled paper means coarse handmade sheets marketed by Khadi Gram Udyog or fashionable stationery stores. What we don't know, and what consumer goods-manufacturers do not consider worth telling us, is that almost all the brightly-coloured paper board that is used for packaging items of daily use …
In comparison to some industries like mining, which are inherently unsustainable because the natural resources they exploit are non-renewable, the paper and pulp industry seems less environmentally-damaging. The units rely on raw materials, mainly wood fibres and water, which are renewable, and the product they manufacture
The period between 1992-93 to 1995-96 was the boom time for the Indian pulp and paper mills. According to The Stranger , published by Greenpeace, the mills enjoyed a profit range of 40-100 per cent on an average, while US mills showed only 10 per cent profits. But this financial …
The pulp and paper sector must steadily move towards sustainable industrial development. Here are some actions which could help: INPUTS sourcing of wood: Although the 1988 National Forest Policy does not allow raw materials sourcing from gov ernment forests, the government has not made any plan to work with the …
J K Paper Mills ( jkpm ) of Raygada in Orissa has been rated the greenest paper mill in India. jkpm is followed by Andhra Pradesh Paper Mills Ltd ( appml ) and the Ballarpur unit of Ballarpur Industries Ltd. The significant feature of jkpm is a modern pulping process …
