central pollution control board

Central PollutionControl Board

The Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974

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Introduction• Central pollution control board was established under statutory provisions of

water(prevention & control of pollution) Act, 1974with main objective of maintaining or restoring of wholesomeness of water.

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What is it for?An Act to provide for the prevention and control of water pollution the maintaining or restoring of wholesomeness of water.


Features of Act

It provides for maintenance and

restoration of quality of all types of surface

and ground water.

It provides for the establishment of central and state

boards of pollution control.

It confers them with powers and

functions to control pollution.

It has provision for funds, budgets,

accounts and audit of the central and

state pollution control boards.

It also makes provision for various

penalties for the defaulters and

procedure for the same.


Application and Commencement• It applies in the first instance to the whole of the States of Assam, Gujarat,

Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and West Bengal and the Union Territories.


Central Pollution Control Board• It is the main governmental

organization at central level for prevention and controlof water pollution.

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CPCB’s Objectives• It advises the central government in matters related to prevention and control

of water pollution.• All the state pollution control boards (SPCBs) are guided and technically

assisted by CPCB.• It organizes training programs for prevention and control of pollution at

various places (seminars).

• It also organizes comprehensive programs on pollution related issues through mass media.

• It collects, compiles and publishes technical and statistical data related to pollution.


CPCB’s Objectives• It prepares manuals for treatment and disposal of sewage and trade effluents.• Lays down standards for water quality parameters.• It plans nation-wide programs for prevention, control or abatement of

pollution.• It establishes and recognizes laboratories for analysis of water, sewage or trade

effluent samples.


STATE POLLUTION CONTROL BOARDThe state pollution control boards (SPCBs) also have similar functions to be executed at state level and are governed by the directions of CPCB.


SPCB’s objectives• The board advices the state government with respect to the locations of any

industry that might pollute a stream, well or any water body.• It lays down standard for effluents and is empowered to take samples from

any stream, well or trade effluent or sewage passing through an industry.• The state board is empowered to take legal samples of trade effluent in

accordance with the procedure laid down in the act. The sample taken in the presence of the occupier or his agent is divided into 2 parts, sealed, signed by both parties and sent for analysis to some recognized labs. If the samples do not conform to the prescribed water quality standards (crossing maximum permissible limits), then ‘consent’ is refused to the unit.


SPCB’s objectives• Every industry has to obtain consent from the Board (granted for a fixed

duration) by applying on a prescribed Proforma providing all technical details, along with a prescribed fee following which analysis of the effluent is carried out.

• The Board suggests efficient methods for utilization, treatment and disposal of trade effluents.


Identification of Polluted Water Bodies• CPCB identified 10 polluted stretches for prioritising pollution control efforts

in 1988-89.• The Number of Stretches increased to 37 during 1992-93.• The list is now revised to include 86 stretches (by 2011)• The concerned State Pollution Control Boards were asked to take adequate

measures to restore the desired level.


GAP

• Ganga Action Plan (GAP) Phase-I was launched in the year 1985 to improve the water quality of river Ganga and was completed in March 2000.

• Diversion and treatment of domestic sewage and present toxic and industrial chemical wastes from identified grossly polluting units entering in to the river.

The other objectives of the Ganga Action Plan are as under.

• Control of non-point pollution from agricultural run off, human defecation, cattle wallowing and throwing of unburnt and half burnt bodies into the river.

• Research and Development to conserve the biotic, diversity of the river to augment its productivity.

• New technology of sewage treatment like Up-flow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) and sewage treatment through afforestation has been successfully developed.

• Resource recovery options like production of methane for energy generation and use of aquaculture for revenue generation have been demonstrated.

• To act as trend setter for taking up similar action plans in other grossly polluted stretches in other rivers.


Contd..

• Phase-II of the programme was approvedin stages from 1993 onwards whichincluded tributaries of the river Ganganamely, Yamuna, Gomti, Damodar andMahananda.

• Pollution abatement works undertakeninclude,

• interception and diversion of raw sewage,

• setting up of sewage treatment plants,creation of low cost sanitation facilities,

• setting up of electric/improved woodcrematoria and river front development.


Contd…

• GAP Phase–II is currently under implementation. An expenditure of Rs. 896.05

crore has been incurred so far on Ganga under GAP and sewage treatment

capacity of 1064 mld (million litres per day) has been created.



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Comparision of pollution load generation from domestic and industrial sources

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