PCB told to keep tab on air pollutants

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Follow us:WhatsappFacebookTwitterTelegram.cls-1{fill:#4d4d4d;}.cls-2{fill:#fff;}Google NewsThe Madras High Court directed the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) to keep continuous air monitoring, including toxic gases of the units in SIPCOT in Cuddalore, and take necessary and suitable legal action against any errant or default unit as per law.A division bench comprising Justice Elipe Dharma Rao and Justice R Subbiah gave the direction while disposing of a writ petition, on Wednesday.A newspaper report that appeared in 2004 was treated as the writ petition as per the directions of the then Chief Justice. The bench, however, rejected a plea from the locals, who got themselves impleaded in the case, to ban setting up or expansion of any unit in the SIPCOT.The bench made it clear that such a blanket order could not be passed since it was for the authorities like the TNPCB and the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest to assess each individual case and grant or reject permissions/renewals and all the units could not be put together and branded as ‘violators’ without verifying the individual cases.first published:August 30, 2012, 09:18 ISTlast updated:August 30, 2012, 09:18 IST
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The Madras High Court directed the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) to keep continuous air monitoring, including toxic gases of the units in SIPCOT in Cuddalore, and take necessary and suitable legal action against any errant or default unit as per law.

A division bench comprising Justice Elipe Dharma Rao and Justice R Subbiah gave the direction while disposing of a writ petition, on Wednesday.

A newspaper report that appeared in 2004 was treated as the writ petition as per the directions of the then Chief Justice. The bench, however, rejected a plea from the locals, who got themselves impleaded in the case, to ban setting up or expansion of any unit in the SIPCOT.

The bench made it clear that such a blanket order could not be passed since it was for the authorities like the TNPCB and the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest to assess each individual case and grant or reject permissions/renewals and all the units could not be put together and branded as ‘violators’ without verifying the individual cases.