SRINAGAR: The Centre has cleared Rs 100 crore project for setting up Waste Treatment Plants (WTPs) in all major industrial units in Jammu and Kashmir. An official spokespersons said Jammu and Kashmir Industries Department in consultation with SIDCO has initiated to install Effluent Treatment Plants (ETPs) in all major industrial units of the State.
He said the Centre has cleared Rs 100 crore project of setting up of Integrated Hazardous Medical and Electronic WTP at Industrial Growth Centre Samba. He said that an ETP, completed at a cost of Rs 6 crore stands installed at Lassipora in Pulwama district.
The district administration Kupwara has been asked to close all illegal quarry and stone crushers within one month.
He said that 174 stone crushers are registered with the Government out of which only 162 have been granted permission while out of 110 brick kilns, 90 have been given permission.
Expressing concern over unabated quarrying in the Valley, Chairman, Environment Committee of Legislative Council, Dr Bashir Ahmad Veeri has asked the officers concerned to take necessary steps for checking this practice immediately.
He said that unplanned quarrying has posed a major threat to the environment and asked officers concerned to mobilize their available human resources for containing this exercise.
He asked them to take assistance of district administration where they feel necessary and send a clear message to those who are bent to imbalance the ecological balance in certain parts of the Valley.
Dr Veeri said that unplanned and un-scientific quarrying has posed a major threat to the environment and asked officers concerned to mobilize their available human resources for stopping this exercise.
Dr Veeri said,”It was the responsibility of all to discourage those elements who are involved in defacing the natural beauty of our Valley.” He called upon everyone to play their role in protecting environment and the mineral deposits available in the state.
He said time has come to do something for saving natural resources of the State for posterity.
