Status of CETP`s in India
Provision of effluent treatment plants for individual industries especially in the small scale sector in the various industrial estates in India to produce the effluent of desired quality before discharging the effluent is not feasible in the Indian context. Firstly, it is expensive on both the capital and operating cost front and secondly, there is no guarantee of performance by the individual industries. Further the disposal of treated effluents is also problematic as every individual industry cannot reach the water body through it’s own pipeline nor can it purchase land for inland irrigation. Thus, Government of India floated the idea of Common effluent treatment plant to overcome these problems. Accordingly Ministry of Environment and Forest, Government of India instructed the various State pollution control boards to examine the possibilities of establishing CETP’s in various industrial estates. In response to the directive issued by the Central government, the State governments started identifying the various locations for CETP’s. Work carried out in this context till 1990 was very limited. Till 1990 India had only one CETP in Jeedimetla near Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh) and here effluent was collected by tankers. |
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