Thursday, July 06, 2006

july6

Chandigarh, July 6 - The Haryana State Pollution Control Board will organise "on the spot camps" in various parts of the State for faster and expeditious disposal of consent cases to provide greater relief to industrial units. This was revealed by Mr. Samir Mathur, Chairman of the Board. He stated that under this campaign, camps
were organized at the regional offices in Panchkula, Bahadurgarh, Panipat, Yamunanagar, Hisar, Gurgaon, Faridabad, Ballabhgarh and Sonipat in June, 2006. He informed that 628 consent cases were disposed off in the presence of industrialists. He stated that earlier, the consent to industries was given every year. He stated that the units had to come to the Board's office for getting these clearance certificates for air and water pollution. But, he said, now consent was given in the regional offices for which due ublicity was arranged for. He stated that consent was given to non-polluting industries like textile industries sans washing activities for 10 years. He stated that consent was given for five years to less polluting industries like garment industries involving washing works. He further added that consent was also given to polluting industries like chemical industries for two years whereas to highly polluting industries, consent was given for one year. He stated that such a move of holding camps at the regional level was unprecedented. He also interacted with the representatives of industrial units and advised them to abide by all environmental laws and rules. Mr. Mathur revealed that 372 consents were granted
for more than one year for providing greater relief to industries. He stated that more "on the spot camps" would be organized in the month of October or November, 2006. Moreover, industrial units could get familiar with the new industrial policy of the State and also with that of the Environment Department in these interactive sessions. The Chairman informed that the camps would be followed by technical workshops for different categories of industries to be organized by specialist agencies like National Productivity Council, TERI and Punjab State Council for Science and Technology etc.

june 28

Chandigrh, June 28 - Haryana State Pollution Control Board has introduced digital cameras in its functioning to bring
more transparency and efficiency for conducting inspections, surveillance and sampling, especially in the areas of
environmental degradation or land degradation due to unscientific and indiscriminate mining activities.
While stating this here today, a spokesman of Haryana State Pollution Control Board said that 12 digital
cameras having a provision of limited video facility have been purchased and these would be provided at its all nine
regional offices in the field and at head office. The photographic data would be digitally transferred to computers through
the network and this system would be economical to generate or store data using digital cameras.

april 25

April 25 - The Haryana Government will restore the Bibipur Lake in district Kurukshetra in a phased manner with a view to optimum use of surplus rain water, recharging of ground water and utilise
the saved water in additional area of Western Yamuna Canal Command. This decision was taken in a meeting of the Irrigation Department held under the chairmanship of the Haryana Chief Minister, Mr. Bhupinder Singh Hooda here today. Among others, who attended the meeting included the Haryana Irrigation Minister, Capt. Ajay
Singh Yadav, Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary, Irrigation, Mr. N. Bala Bhaskar and senior officers of the Irrigation Department . The Chief Minister said that during the first phase a sum of Rs. 19.96 crore would be spent and farmers of about 100 villages would be benefitted by the restoration of the lake besides providing irrigation facilities to 50450 acres of land. He directed the officers of the Irrigation Department to chalk out a compact plan of water bodies prevailing in the State including Bhindawas Lake, Kotla Lake and Masani Barrage etc so that maximum rain water going waste could be harvested. The Chief Minister said that with the restoration of the lake, the land would be recharged. He said that it would also reduce the power consumption also. The Chief Minister said that in the II phase of the Bibipur Lake the level of the lake would be raised to 822 ft at a cost of Rs. 77.30 crore . He said that besides using the surplus rain water which was otherwise going waste, the renovation of the lake would help in flood protection scheme, groundwater recharging, use of saving water in aditional area of West Jamuna Canal Command and irrigate the area during kharif. Mr. Hooda informed that he would soon meet the Chairman of NABARD in the next month at Mumbai to seek the financial assistance for the ongoing and new
irrigation projects. While giving the details of the restoration of the Bibipur lake project , the Irrigation Minister, Capt.
Ajay Singh Yadav said that this lake was a traditional natural body and it would tap flood waters of river Tangri, Markanda, SYL Canal and Bhakra through Narwana Branch and Saraswati Crack. He said that it would also help in raising the sub soil water level of the area. He said that the Government of India had decided
that the water bodies directly linked with the agriculture should be restored throughout the country. As per this policy, it has been decided to take up the restoration of the Bibipur Lake in a
phased manner. The work on the Bibipur lake was being taken up on priority basis as this lake was ideally located and known as the gold mine of rain water harvesting, said the Minister. Capt. Yadav said that the lake is spread over an area of 5000 acres and having a storage capacity of 24800 acres feet. He said that the lake was located in eleven villages namely Bibipur, Murtazapur, Bhor, Takoran, Gari Roran, Mukimpura, Indwari, Surmi, Chhalloan, Shamspur and Mundakhera . After renovation, if the lake was filled up to rain level of 816 ft, it will provide 280 cusecs of irrigation water for 75 days which was adequate to mature the rice crop of the area, the Minister added. The Engineer-in-Chief, Mr.J.S.Ahlawat apprised the Chief Minister that efforts were being made to restore Bhindawas Lake in Jhajjar district also and it would be made fit to store rain water during the ensuing monsoon season.