Pollution Control Board also initiates action against four more factories in Kadapa district
The Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board has ordered
closure of India Cements Limited factory at Yerraguntla and initiated
action against four more cement factories in Kadapa district, for
non-compliance of the Board directions and standards and causing severe
air pollution in surrounding areas.
APPCB
Member-Secretary Janaki Kondepi issued closure orders (vide Order No.
16/TPT/PCB/TF-KNL/2012-307), as per Section 31 (A) of Air (Prevention
and Control of Pollution) Amendment Act, 1987, in the interest of
protecting public health and environment, in accordance with a decision
taken at a hearing conducted by APPCB on August 5. The electricity
authorities were directed to disconnect power supply to ICL factory.
The
factory closure was ordered due to non-upgradation of ESPs to control
flue gas emissions and to meet the Board’s emission standards, storing
limestone in an open area on the premises causing dust emissions to road
users, accumulation of solid waste, i.e. raw meal and clinker lumps all
over the factory surroundings without proper recycling or landfill,
inadequate water sprinkling systems, the order said.
On
receiving a series of complaints from Rayalaseema Rashtra Samiti
president Kuncham Venkatasubba Reddy and others that cement factories
were causing environmental pollution, the APPCB inspection and
monitoring team, Task Force Committee and Board officials inspected the
five cement factories in Kadapa district.
Kadapa
district has five cement factories – India Cements Ltd. Factories at
Yerraguntla and Chilamakur in Yerraguntla mandal, Zuari Cements at
Yerraguntla, Bharti Cements at Kamalapuram and Dalmia Cements at
Mylavaram, in view of vast limestone reserves in Kamalapuram and
Jammalamadugu constituencies.
The Pollution Control
Board directed Bharti Cements at Nallalingayapalli in Kamalapuram to
furnish bank guarantee for Rs. 1.40 crore within a week and provide
automatic water sprinkling system along the roads to minimise dust
emission within a month. It issued warnings to Zuari Cements Ltd. at
Yerraguntla and Dalmia Cements factory at Mylavaram.
APPCB ordered Zuari Cements Ltd. to forfeit Rs. 10 lakhs from a bank guarantee of Rs. 1 crore.
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