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From: "[iso-8859-1] leena taneja rao"
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Subject: Fwd: supreme court orders
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Please post on nathist network.
Leena Taneja Rao.
Other India Bookstore wrote:
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 18:37:40 +0530
From: Other India Bookstore
Subject: supreme court orders
To: leenart1@yahoo.co.uk
The Goa Foundation
G-8 St Britto's Apartments,
Feira Alta, Mapusa 403 507 Goa.
5.2.2004
Dear Friends,
I am writing to inform you of a recent judgement of the Supreme
Court of
India dated October 14, 2003 on Hazardous Wastes and Hazardous
Chemicals.
The Supreme Court has issued detailed directions in the Judgement.
Those of
you who wish to have a copy of the judgement can get in touch with
me and I
can send it to you on email. The Supreme Court has gone further and
appointed a Monitoring Committee to ensure that its recommendations
and
directions are implemented. The Supreme Court has nominated me as
the only
NGO on the Monitoring Committee. I am writing this letter to seek
assistance
from you to ensure that the directions given in the order are
implemented in
the interests of environment protection and public health.
One of the most important directions given by the Court is that all
those
Hazardous Waste generating units which do not have authorisation
from the
Pollution Control Board must be shut down forthwith. Not many
people know
that 3 documents issued by the Pollution Control Board to
industrial units
are public documents and copies of these can be demanded from any
Member
Secretary of any Pollution Control Board. These are as under:
1. Consent under Water Act, 1974
2. Consent under Air Act, 1981
3. Authorisation granted under Hazardous Waste Rules, 1989.
The third document will give you a reasonably good idea if an
industrial
unit is generating Hazardous Wastes, the quantities thereof and how
this is
being disposed. Generally such wastes have to be sent to an
engineered
landfill or to a unit that is registered by the Ministry of
Environment &
Forests as having proper environment safeguards for handling such
Hazardous
Wastes.
The Supreme Court has also, in its Judgement, directed the
Pollution Control
Boards to survey their areas, locate and evaluate the quantities of
Hazardous Wastes dumped by industries in different areas. The
Boards have
been directed to produce rehabilitation plans for such wastes. When
the
Survey Reports are prepared, these will be made available on the
Internet
and in printed form so that they can be counter-checked by people
on the
ground.
The Supreme Court has also issued directions in relation to waste
batteries.
However, the most important part of the judgement, in my view, is
in
relation to public participation. The Court has directed all units
involved
in Hazardous Chemicals and generating Hazardous Wastes to put up
online data
outside the factory gates listing the Hazardous Chemicals within
the factory
unit and also the quantities of air pollutants, water effluents and
Hazardous Wastes generated by the said unit. This must be done
immediately.
As Members of the Committee, we will be visiting several parts of
the
country to ensure that these directions are carried out on the
ground.
However we are bound to miss several areas. It will be nice if you
and your
organisation can be the eyes and ears of the Committee. If we have
this type
of assistance from the NGO community network, the Committee can be
fed with
information regarding both compliance or non-compliance of the
directions
issued by the Supreme Court.
I am giving you below the list of the Monitoring Committee members
and their
emails. You can get in touch with any one of these Monitoring
Committee
members to report on any aspect of the directions that are not
being
implemented on the ground by either the State Government or the
Pollution
Control authority in your State. You can always write to me.
Please pass this letter to other networks and friends.
With best wishes,
Claude Alvares
List of MC members and emails:
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
1 Dr. G. Thyagarajan, Former Director, CSIR,Nayudamma Hall,
AdyarChennai-
600 020 (e mail: drgtrajan @ yahoo.co.in) Chairman
2 Shri Sudhir Mital, Jt. Secretary, Ministry of Environment &
Forests(e.mail: Sudhir-mital@sify.com) MoEF
3 Dr. V. Rajagopalan,Chairman, Central Pollution Control
Board,Parivesh
Bhawan, East Arjun Nagar,New Delhi-32(e mail: cpcb@sansad.nic.in,
cpcb@alpha.nic.in) Member
4 Dr. Tapan Chakrabarti, Director, National Environmental
Engineering
Research Institute (NEERI), Nehru Marg,Nagpur-440 020(e mail:
twmneeri_ngp@sancharnet.in) Member
5 Shri G.S. Dang, Scientist F, Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP),
Dehradun- 248 005 (email: gdang@iip.res.in) Member
6 Dr. S.P. Mehrotra, Director, National Metallurgical Laboratory
(NML),
Jamshedpur- 831 007 (e mail: spm @nmlindia.org) Member
7 Dr. J.S. Yadav, Director, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology
(IICT),
Uppal Road, Hyderabad-500 007 (email: yadav@iict.ap.nic.in ;
yadav@iict.res.in) Member
8 Dr. Claude Alvares, Goa Foundation, G-8 Britto's Apartment,Fiera
Alta,
Mapusa, Goa- 403 507 (email: oib@sancharnet.in) Member
9 Dr. D.B. Boralkar, Member Secretary, Maharashtra Pollution
Control
Board, Kalpatru Point, 3rd Floor, Sion-Matunga Scheme Road No.
8,Opp. Sion
Circle, Sion(E), Mumbai-400 022(e.mail: varunbkar@yahoo.com) Member
10 Dr. N.H. Hosabettu, Director, HSM Division, MoEF (e.mail:
nhosabettu@yahoo.co.uk) Member-Secretary
11 Dr. U. Sridharan, Addl. Director, HSMD, Ministry of Environment
& Forests
MoEF
12 Ms. Usha Subramaniam, Jt. Director, HSMD, Ministry of
Environment &
Forests(e.mail: usha565@yahoo.com) MoEF
*****
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