Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Having an ISO-14001 Environmental Management Systems (EMS) will help and enhance a firm's economic performance and at the same time will improve its environmental performance. The benefits of ISO-14001 lie in cost savings through energy consumption, raw material input, waste management, environmental impact reversal as well as an improved public …
The Industrial Policy of Delhi 2010-2021 that has come out after 1982 aims to promote non-polluting and clean industries with focus on hi-tech, knowledge-based and IT-based Industries. It also envisages operation and maintenance of existing industrial areas and development of new industrial areas on private partnership basis. The industrial policy …
This report includes the visit of Effluent Treatment Plants/ Common Effluent Treatment Plants based on advanced / latest technologies established at Ahemdabad(Gujarat), Mumbai, Tirupur & Erode (Tamilnadu). The purpose of the visit was to study the technologies being employed there and to explore the possibility of using the same in …
THE dyeing and washing unit owners will observe a one-day token fast here on Wednesday urging the State and Central governments for sanctioning 75 per cent subsidy for 20 common effluent treatment plants (CETPs), which were established at a cost of Rs 800 crore, because of the lack of a …
A Department of Environment drive saw nine Gazipur factories fined by a mobile court on Monday, for failure to use effluent treatment plants and allowing pollutants to enter the surrounding waters. Such drives will be continued against those polluting the environment, a department of environment statement said. The fined factories …
Patancheru, near Hyderabad, India, is a major production site for the global bulk drug market. Approximately 90 manufacturers send their wastewater to a common treatment plant in Patancheru. Extraordinary high levels of a wide range of pharmaceuticals have recently been demonstrated in the treated effluent. As little as 0.2% of …
Four representatives from the industry, who had been included in the high-level committee constituted by the state government for the installation of Common Effluent Treatment Plants (CETPs) in the city, have been asked to attend a meeting with the Chairman, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), tomorrow in New Delhi. These …
The owner of the fish processing plant at Subdolem in Balli village has refuted reports that the activity has left the area contaminated and expressed his willingness to implement all measures suggested by the Goa Pollution Control Board. In another development, some residents of Subdolem and Cordem have petitioned to …
Ludhiana: Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has included names of four members from the industry in the high-level committee constituted for fixing norms at inlet and outlet of common effluent treatment plants to be set up in Ludhiana. The committee members have been asked to submit their report by November …
Jamshedpur, Oct. 26: The state-run Jharkhand Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation will provide required technical assistance to the proposed Adityapur auto cluster
THE Dyers Association of Tirupur (DAT) has postponed its indefinite strike scheduled for Monday to December 1, following an assurance from the State government that the issue of levying a fine ordered by the SC would be looked into in six weeks. After an executive committee meeting of the association …
Mahesh Kulkarni / Bangalore October 27, 2009, 0:15 IST The procedure of the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) for grant of permission to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to commence production
Tirupur units plan to suspend operations from October 26 Tirupur: The knitwear production in Tirupur cluster is all set to come to a standstill as the entire 528 dyeing units affiliated to Dyers Association of Tirupur (DAT), an important link in the apparel manufacturing chain, have decided to suspend its …
Government will close down the industries that will not set up Effluent Treatment Plant (ETP). Dr Hasan Mahmud, State Minister for Environment Ministry, said that government has taken initiatives to increase manpower and activities of the environment bureau. As a part of the initiatives, the government has made the setting …
The government has taken an initiative to amend the Bangladesh Environment Protection Act- 1995 for making it time- befitting to address the environmental hazards and protect the nature. State minister for land Mostafizur Rahman yesterday informed the House that the draft of the amendments to the act has been sent …
Supreme Court judgement dated 06/10/2009 on river Noyyal pollution. The Court was of the opinion that there has been unabated pollution by the members of Tirupur Dyeing Factory Owners. They cannot escape the responsibility to meet out the expenses of reversing the ecology. They are bound to meet the expenses …
The United Nations has designated the first Monday of October every year as World Habitat Day to reflect on the state of towns and cities and the basic right of all to an adequate shelter and to remind the world of its collective responsibility towards human habitat
For a small scale industry it is difficult to construct, operate and maintain an individual treatment facility. Provision of land, expertise and trained staff, procurement of specialized equipment, installation of laboratory, sludge disposal on individual basis, etc will be almost impossible for a small unit. Inception of common effluent treatment …
