PHD Chamber
of Commerce and Industry on Thursday organized a Workshop on Hazardous Waste
Management : Challenges, Prospects and Strategies in which Joint Director,
Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change, Dr. Shruti Rai Bhardwaj
gave the special addressee and attended by the other experts in hazardous waste
management with Whole Time Director (EHS), DCM Shriram Ltd, Dr. N J Singh.
Dr. Bhardwaj said that the ministry
was open to accept all the relevant suggestions and ideas, concerning with the
hazardous industry for the inclusion in the legislations for the better
implementation of the legislation for which ministry would come out with
separate notifications time-to-time.
“Development is indeed an important
factor specifically for country like India where we are emerging economy for
which we have to go way ahead for taking care of our environment” she
explained.
She also said “when we were
formalizing the latest hazardous waste legislation 2016, initially the idea was
to go amendments which we thought might help in better implementation of 2008
rules but when we started working on that we realized that taking note of
international best practices where we have so many developments and on national
front different challenges which our industry faces, we revised the schedules
taking into consideration our domestic issues pertaining to wastate management.
Also hazardous waste has been now integrated with Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.
There is a need to have the
regulation with the sustainable approach so that things can move in right
direction and now hazardous waste Rules 2016 has simplified the procedure and
rules for which single window approach in terms of permission, various
authorization that is required for hazardous waste industry as well as the form
also been simplified which would definitely be useful for all the stakeholders,
she said.
Also simplified the import-export
procedure under the rule for recycling, reuse and utilization and in other
waste made two other categories to simplify further the procedure for some kind
of other waste which might not be any hazardous nature and which might be very
important for some of the industries to use as a resource. In new Rules,
the Ministry has ensured that State Pollution Control Board should attach
detailed inspection report with every permission granted to the industry.
She has emphasized that utilization
of waste for which these waste used as resources because of paucity of land
stressed the use of technology for using these hazardous as resources which
would also help in recovery of energy, material and simultaneously reducing the
lode on landfills.
In his welcome remarks, Secretary
General, PHD Chamber, Mr. Saurabh Sanyal said that industries should also
take the responsibility of their actions by proper treatment and disposal of
their waste products. He also said “it is also important for us to check
our reckless consummation of products which can contribute to hazardous waste.
It would be wishful thinking to rid ourselves of such products, however,
controlled usage and proper disposal of such products will indeed contribute to
the betterment of our society and environment”.
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