Green Court Seeks Report OnEnvironmental Norms ViolationBy Slaughterhouses
The green panel said that the committee may hold its first meeting within
15 days, undertake a visit to the site and interact with the stakeholders.
The National Green Tribunal Wednesday formed a committee and asked
it to submit a report on a plea against violation of environmental norms
in operation of a slaughter house at Ghazipur here.
A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice A K Goel constituted an
independent joint committee comprising officials from the Central
Pollution Control Board (CPCB), DPCC, EDMC, jurisdictional District
Magistrate and the Special Commissioner of Police, East.
The CPCB and Delhi Pollution Control Committee will be nodal
agencies for coordination and compliance.
The green panel said that the committee may hold its first meeting
within 15 days, undertake a visit to the site and interact with the
stakeholders.
The committee will be free to conduct other proceedings online. Based
on the facts found, the statutory authorities will be at liberty to take
further remedial action, following due process, the tribunal said while
directing the panel to submit a report within three months by email.
The tribunal was hearing a plea filed by Ghaziabad resident Shailesh
Singh against violation of environmental norms in operation of
slaughter house — Frigorifico Allana Pvt Ltd — at Ghazipur here.
According to the applicant, the slaughter house is being run even after
expiry of the lease agreement, discharging effluent waste/carcass
residue (blood, fat and other harmful elements which increases the
amount of nitrogen) in the ground water drains.
The plea claimed that the Delhi Pollution Control Committee had
imposed a fine of ₹ 50 lakhs and the East Delhi Municipal Corporation
(EDMC) passed an order of closure due to violation of law.
