January 19—The Haryana Pollution Control Board (HPCB) is going hi-tech and turning industry-friendly. It has decided to go in for a web-enabled application submission software for the convenience of entrepreneurs. Once installed, it will not only enable entrepreneurs to check online the status of the No Objection Certificate (NOC) but also of the consent applications submitted to the board, sparing them the time and effort now made in making it the board office.
Besides, the board is also in the process of evolving software for e-filling of applications for consent and NOC. Making things easy for entrepreneurs, the board has prepared a policy notification simplifying NOC and consent procedure. Under the policy, the time to grant NOC and consent has been increased. Disclosing this today, Haryana Minister of State for Environment and Forests, Mrs Kiran Choudhry, said that besides providing convenience to the entrepreneurs, the new software would enable the board to check the daily status of consent and NOC applications and also answer the applicants online. She directed all Regional Officers (ROs) to direct industrial units to e-file for consent to establish and consent to operate by January 26, 2009. After e-filling consent to establish, each unit will get a unique ID number and password to check the status of its case from time to time.
Adoption of the e-filing procedure would lend more transparency to the procedure which would be considerably paced up. Final decision on each case would be put on the website of the board and the entrepreneurs would be able to download it. Time period had been specified in the policy notification to clear consent to establish cases, she added. Detailing the consequent management process, Mrs Choudhry said that an applicant would file application form along with relevant fee and document as the first step. These documents would be verified by the Regional Officer, and, if found eligible, samples would be collected by the field officer under the RO and sent to the laboratory. The laboratory would prepare and send the analysis report back to the RO who would recommend the application to Head Office (HO) in case the investment involved is more than Rs 50 crore. In the last lap, the head office would send the final decision to the industrial unit and RO concerned, she added.
Mrs Choudhry said that the main objective of implementing this process was to smoothen the flow of data without any hurdles, and after adequate validation checks, its entry and security. She said this process would not only provide the facility of updating data from time to time but also facilitate prompt and specific retrieval of data. It would bring about flexibility in the system and check redundancy in storing the same data multiple times. The process would help achieve accuracy and maintain timeliness and comprehensiveness of the system. She said that the summarized data would be transferred electronically to the HO and would be used for reports generation. There would be no duplicity of data entry and it would be consistent and accurate.
The proposed system would generate all required MIS reports at Regional Office and HO level by all authorized persons. With this process, the present status of an application could be updated directly from the server, which is maintained at the HO. Also, the proposed system could be effectively utilized for monitoring compliance of various show-cause notices. It would also alert the user as soon as the show-cause notice expired, she added.
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