70 industrial firms in Rajasthan received notices for causing pollution

Industrial firms in Rajasthan received notices –

Jaipur: Since last November, the Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board (RSPCB) has issued show-cause letters to as many as 70 industrial facilities in the state for failing to comply with various pollution prevention standards. The Online Continuous Emission and Effluent Monitoring System (OCEMS) has been used to issue the notices.

Industries with a high potential for contamination were ordered by the RSPCB to install OCEMS in 2014 so that their effluent discharge into the environment could be monitored. The RSPCB has been employing OCEMS as a technique to improve industrial unit effluent emission levels.

Around 475 industrial units in the state were protected by the installation of OCEMS as of November 2022. Currently, it has expanded to almost 600 units, according to RSPCB chairman Naveen Mahajan. From 5 to 27, he continued, more municipal sewerage treatment plants in the state have installed and configured OCEMS during the last two months.
In order to have a strong mechanism for efficient monitoring and vigilance to regulate pollution in the state, RSPCB is also developing an SOP for OCEMS.

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The RSPCB has instructed sewage treatment plants, dairies, common treatment disposal facilities, red-category enterprises in the state’s NCR, and industries in all 17 high-pollution categories to install the necessary OCEMS analyzers. Industrial firms having the capacity to generate 100 KLD of wastewater have been