Online Consent Management & Monitoring System

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Ques:What are important Environmental Laws in the Country?
Ans: The Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 The Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 The Water (prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess Act, 1977 The Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 and Rules there under The Public Liability Insurance Act, 1981

Ques: What do you mean by Water and Air Consent? Who are required to obtain consent from Board?
Ans: Consent means the sanction of the authority of the Board for the discharge of the effluent (sewage or trade effluent into a stream or well or sewer or on land ) or emission of air pollutant into the atmosphere. The consent issued by Board under section 25/26 of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act 1974 is known as water consent and under section 21 of the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 is known as air consent,As per section 25 of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act 1974, no person shall without the previous consent of the State Board, Establish or take any steps to establish any industry, operation or process, or any treatment and disposal system or any extension or addition thereto, which is likely to discharge sewage or trade effluent into a stream or well or sewer or on land; or Bring into use any new or altered outlets for the discharge of sewage; or Being to make any new discharge of sewage. And, as per section 21 of the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981, no person shall without previous consent of the State Board, establish or operate any industrial plant in an air pollution control area.

Ques:Is any fee required for obtaining consent? What do you mean by Consent Fee?
Ans: Yes Sir. The consent fee means the fees charged by the Board for the grant of consent by the Board.

Ques:What do you mean by investment?
Ans: The investment means the amount of capital invested by the industry on capital works including land; machinery; and equipment. This is the gross block (without depreciation) of all fixed assets.

Ques:Is there any prescribed form for consent application?
Ans: Yes Sir, There are prescribed forms of application for obtaining consent.

Ques:Where the consent application forms are available?
Ans: The consent application forms are available at Offices of the Jammu & Kashmir State Pollution Control Board.

Ques:Whether consent renewal fee has to be paid annually?
Ans: A web-site contains several works such as literary works, artistic works (photographs etc.), sound recordings, video clips, cinematograph films and broadcastings and computer software too. Therefore, a separate application has to be filed for registration of all these works.

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This Board, though constituted under the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974, has also been entrusted with powers and functions under such other Acts on environment. Other environmental laws, which followed after the Water Act, 1974, were also credited in the functional account of the central Board, as well as this Board. Such special Acts on Environment may be enumerated as indicated below:


1. The water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974;

2. The water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess Act, 1977;

3. The Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981;

4. The Environment (Protection) Act, 1986; and

All the four Acts and important Rules framed thereunder may be referred below with their individual objectives and obligations cast on responsible persons.

I. Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974:

The water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 provides for the prevention and control of water pollution and the maintaining or re-storing of whole-someness of water. Under the scheme of the Act, the relevant provisions, casting obligations on persons may be referred under sections - 24,25/26 and 31 of the Act.

Section - 24, prohibits on the use of stream or well for the disposal of polluting matters, which is in excess of the standards laid down by the Board. In other words, people are under obligation to observe the standards laid down by the Board, in the matter of use of stream or well by way of disposal of the polluting matters, determined in accordance with the Board's Standard.

Section - 25/26, restricts establishment or use of new or existing outlets or discharge without prior consent from the Board. In other words, person are under obligation to apply for consent, before they are taking steps to establish any industry or are bringing into use any new outlet or are continuing with the existing Outlet for the discharge of sewage or trade effluent.

Section - 31, cast obligation on any industry, operation or process to furnish information to the Sate Board, including other agencies, about accidental discharge of any poisonous matter into a stream or well or sewer on land. Failure to carry out the aforesaid obligations attracts penal provisions under sections 43,44 and 42 respectively.

II. The water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess Act,1977:

The water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess Act, 1977 provides for the levy and collection of Cess on water consumed by persons carrying on specified industry and by local authorities, with a view to augmenting the resource of Central and State Board's for the prevention and Control of water pollution, constituted under the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974. The relevant provisions casting obligation under this Act may be referred under sections 3,4 and 5.

Section - 3 casts liability on every person carrying on any specified industry under Schedule I of the Act, and also on every authority to pay a Cess for the purpose of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 and utilization of water thereunder.

Section - 4, requires every person carrying on any specified industry and every local authority to affix meters of prescribed standard, so as to measure the quantity of water consumed by them.

Section - 5, requires the said persons to furnish returns in the prescribed format, showing the quantity of water consumed in the previous month.

Failure to carry out the obligations and liability, as aforesaid, attracts the penal provision under section 14 of the Act.

III. Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act,1981:

The Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 provides for the prevention, control and abatement of air pollution.

The liability/obligations imposed on the concerned persons under the scheme of this Act may be referred under the provisions of sections 21,22 and 23.

Section - 21, similar to the provision under section 25/26 of the Water Act, 1974, puts obligationby way of restriction on any person on the establishment or operation of any industrial plant in an air pollution control area, without obtaining prior consent from the concerned Board.

Section - 22 is also comparable to section 24 of the Water Act, 1974. It requires any person carrying on any industrial plant to allow discharge or emission only within the prescribed standard.

Section - 23 is also comparable to section 31 of the Water Act, 1974, whereunder any person, carrying on an industrial plant, shall furnish information to the State Board or other agencies, in case due to any accident or other unforeseen act or event emission has occurred in excess of the standards laid down by the Board.

In the event of failure to carry out ones obligations or liabilities, as aforesaid, penal provision under Section - 37 of the Act is attracted.

IV. The Environment (Protection) Act, 1986;

View Environment Protection Act, 1986

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Environmental policy refers to the commitment of an organization to the laws, regulations, and other policy mechanisms concerning environmental issues and sustainability. These issues generally include air and water pollution, solid waste management, biodiversity, ecosystem management, maintenance of biodiversity, the protection of natural resources, wildlife and endangered species.

Policies concerning energy or regulation of toxic substances including pesticides and many types of industrial waste are part of the topic of environmental policy. This policy can be deliberately taken to direct and oversee human activities and thereby prevent harmful effects on the biophysical environment and natural resources, as well as to make sure that changes in the environment do not have harmful effects on humans

It is useful to consider that environmental policy comprises two majorterms: environment and policy. Environment refers to the physical ecosystems, but can also take into consideration the social dimension (quality of life, health) and an economic dimension (resource management, biodiversity). Policy can be defined as a "course of action or principle adopted or proposed by a government, party, business or individual". Thus, environmental policy focuses on problems arising from human impact on the environment, which retroacts onto human society by having a (negative) impact on human values such as good health or the 'clean and green' environment

Our Policy is

(a) Planning of comprehensive programme for the prevention, control or abatement of pollution of streams and wells in the state and to secure the execution there of;

(b) To advise the State Government on any matter concerning the prevention, control or abatement of water pollution;

(c) To collect and disseminate information relating to water pollution and the prevention, control or abatement thereof;

(d To encourage, conduct and participate in investigations and research relating to problems of water pollution and prevention, control or abatement of water pollution

(e) To collaborate with the Central Board in organising the training of persons engaged or to be engaged in programmes relating to prevention, control or abatement of water pollution and to organise mass education programmes relating thereto;

(f) To inspect sewage or trade effluents, works and plants for the treatment of sewage and trade effluents and to review plans, specifications or other data relating to plants set up for the treatment of water, works for the purification thereof and the system for the disposal of sewage or trade effluents or in connection with the grant of any consent as required by this Act; (g) Lay down, modify or annul effluent standards for the sewage and trade effluents and for the quality of receiving waters (not being water in an inter - state stream) resulting from the discharge of effluents and to classify waters of the state;

(h) To evolve economical and reliable methods of treatment of sewage and trade effluents, with regard to the peculiar conditions of soils, climate and water resources of different regions and more especially the prevailing flow characteristic of water in streams and wells which render it impossible to attain even the minimum degree of dilution;

To evolve methods of utilisation of sewage and suitable trade effluents in agriculture; (j) To evolve efficient methods of disposal of sewage and trade effluents on land, as are necessary on account of the predominant conditions of scant stream flows that do not provide for major part of the year the minimum degree of dilution;

(k) To lay down standards of treatment of sewage and trade effluents to be discharged into any particular stream taking into account the minimum fair weather dilution available in that stream and the tolerance limits of pollution permissible in the water of the stream, after the discharge of such effluents;

(l) To advice the State Government with respect to the location of any industry the carrying on of which is likely to pollute a stream or well.

                           This is a rule for the management and handling of bio-medical waste.  These rules apply to all persons who generate, collect, receive, store, transport, treat, dispose, or handle bio-medical waste in any form.  It specify the duty of occupier, treatment and disposal of bio-medical wastes, segregation, packaging, transportation and storage of bio-medical wastes, procedure for obtaining authorization for grant of authorization, categories of bio-medical wastes, colour coding and type of container for disposal of bio-medical wastes, label for bio-medical waste containers/bags, label for transport of bio-medical wastes containers bags, standards for treatment and disposal of bio-medical wastes, schedule for installation of waste management facilities like incinerator/autoclave/microwave system,  form of application for authorization/renewal of authorization, form of annual report, form of accident reporting, form of authorization for operating a facility for collection, reception, treatment, storage, transport and disposal of bio-medical wastes, form of application for filing appeal against order passed by the prescribed authority at district level or regional office of the Pollution Control Board acting as prescribed authority or the State/Union territory level authority etc.

Air pollution is indication of disturbances to the composition of compounds in the atmosphere, as it may be summarized as shown:

1. Excess emission of gases/vapours into atmosphere

2. Saturation of chemical compounds/particulates

3. Rate of dissipation < (smaller than) rate of absorption through various cycles (i.e. carbon and nitrogen cycle)

4. Emergence of new chemical reactions of reactive and non-biodegradable compounds.

Global warming, acid rain, smog, ozone depletion are some effects of air pollution.

In relation to this, we may observe the cycle which involves in our daily lives: carbon and nitrogen cycle. These 2 cycles are the most important of all, regulating the composition of carbon and nitrogen of Earth. 

Sources and Methods
We can classify major sources that lead to air pollution to the following categories:

• motor vehicle exhaust

• heat and power generation facilities

• industrial processes

• auto manufacturing

• fertilizers plants

• building demolition

• solid waste disposal

• solvent evaporation

• volcanic eruption

• fuel production

• roadway construction

• electrical components manufacturing

• extraction of metals

• forest fires

• agriculture

The Hazardous Wastes generating units in the state includes mainly Cement Plants, Iron and Steel Plants, Fertilizer Plants, Aluminum Plant, Power Plants, Waste Processing Units, Mine Workshops & Wire Drawing Units. The hazardous Wastes generated from these units are mainly used/waste oil, oil sludge, cathode residues, tar residue, lead & zinc ash/slag/dross, sulphur sludge. Himachal Pradesh State Pollution Control Board has completed the inventorzation of hazardous wastes generating unit as per Hazardous Wastes (Management & Handling) Rules, 2016. Total 2436 nos. of units are generating hazardous wastes in the state. Board has granted authorization to these units for collection, reception, treatment, transport, storage and disposal. etc.

For Prevention and Control of water pollution and maintaining or restoring of wholesomeness of water and prevention, control & abatement of air pollution namely Water (Prevention and Control Pollution) Act, 1974 and Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 have been enacted. Central and State Pollution Control Boards came into existence to fulfill the purpose mentioned in the above Acts.

The State has prepared its Environmental Policy within the basic framework of economic and social priorities with the objective of ensuring environmental conservation without impeding any development imperatives. It is aimed at:

* Ensuring sustainable development with an emphasis on social and intergenerational equity
* Enhancing environmental performance as a means of competitive advantage for the State
* Improving the quality of life of citizens.