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Environment protection is the
greatest challenge of existing human
race but unfortunately every body of
us has been adverse to it directly or
indirectly. From a person who lives in
a forest and burns wood and the
person who lives in an air-
conditioned room, travels in an air-
conditioned car or a person who flies
in air, everyone is responsible for its
destruction. However maximum
eyes fall on industry. When the
industrial growth was promoted in
the west the environment protection
was least considered and the
developed countries had already
caused irreparable damages to the
global environment before we
started developing. As a result of
their deeds we have reached to a
stage where everybody talks of
environment only and nobody about
Industry. The fact of the day is that
both Industry and the environmental
protection are important and we can
not promote one at the cost of the
other.
While as we appreciate the concern
of environmentalists and the
regulators of pollution control norms
for checking the pollution created by Industry with compassion
the industry but there is a feeling that
rhetoric is being created by both
these stake holders and it has
become a game of win and loose for the ever changing pollution control polluting industry without closing it the said consent letter to the pollution
them. There is a need to change the norms due to lack of adequate down. control board. Similarly there are
mindset from the feeling and technology and capital required for I would take this opportunity to draw many units who need pollution
approach of winning a battle to the technology up gradation. In contrast the attention of the S tate control clearance only for running
required capital becomes easily Government and J&K pollution generator sets of small capacities
approach of solving a problem. The
development of industry in every available to the large industry. control towards few points of our this c an a lso v ery e asily b e
economy is paramount for its growth I n o u r s t a t e a s e c t i o n o f c o n c e r n . monitored by the district industries
which in turn improves the economic environmentalists seem to be averse In the valley of Kashmir majority of centers.
the unit s fall in the “Green
condition of its population. It has to large factories and advocate for In other categories like orange and
classification” of the pollution control red the consent letters and the
been established beyond doubt that only small and comparatively green
industries like agriculture and Board norms. There are very few renewal letters need to be given in a
the successes of majors of tourism; h owever w e h ave units which fall under “Red” or time bound period and every
environmental protection have a
direct co-relation with the economic experienced that these sectors too “Orange” categories. However the application should be disposed of
condition of the common masses of a have their inherent limitations to procedure adopted by the board for within a period not exceeding one
p a r t i c u l a r c o u n t r y . T h e sustain an economy on a long term issuing consents to operate is same month so that the unit holder is not
environmentalists have not been basis. The collapse of tourism for all the categories. While we want forced to visit the offices of pollution
able to achieve desired success in industry in J&K in early nineties due the pollution control board to be very control board.
to disturbances is an example. In our vigilant and tough in the red category Another issue which we would like to
the countries which are economically opinion we need to make our state industries like cement and Mining mention is the renewal consent
backward, as such the environment areas the green category units need letters issued to stone crushing units.
and the industry have to co- exist and self reliant in as many fields as to be released from the cumbersome The consent letters issued are made
environmentalists and the industry possible to sustain our economy on a paperwork and follow-up. At present subject to the objections of the
have to work in close co-ordination to long term basis for which we have to
save the environment. set up industrial units both large and the applications of all categories are people from the vicinity although the
The state of Jammu & Kashmir is at small of various categories so that being disposed off either at Regional board is satisfied with the pollution
present facing worst kind of we reduce our dependence on office or at central office levels. As control devices installed by the unit
unemployment problems and the imports. Our state at present has these green units are small and holders. In most of the cases the
youth feel frustrated due to lack of job become a consuming state and we micro level these are mostly run and population in the vicinity of a stone
have to depend on imports from managed by the individual owners crushing unit comes much after the
opportunities. The development of themselves and can hardly afford to day the unit gets established. We feel
industry is the only way we can tackle other states in every item or article
this problem, as such everybody we need. While advocating for mass have additional staff to pursue their that once the regulator issues
needs to encourage industry and at industrialization we do not disown cases in various offices. The industry consent to operate and is satisfied at
the same time ensure that it is not our responsibility towards our feels that the Green category unit the time of renewal that adequate
done at the cost of environment. environment. We as industry holder’s pollution clearance should pollution control devises have been
welcome all the policies and be a ccorded b y the G eneral installed the consent letters should
However the industrialists while Manager District Industries centre. not be made conditional.
striving for more and more regulations framed by the regulators The Industry also feels that the
production have to ensure that it is in order to protect our environment. The procedure is already in vogue in amount of consent fee charged by
clean production. However I would request the some other states of the country the board is on higher side
In the state of Jammu and Kashmir environmentalists as well as (example Punjab) where the Powers
there are no large industries, almost regulators not be happy in closing of granting consent to operate in particularly for a new entrepreneur
all the units are in small & micro down an industry. As the modem case of a green category unit lies which may be re examined and
sector. The SME sector globally is technologies have been developed with industries department and the reduced so that it becomes
facing severe hardships in meeting we can surely solve the problem of a department in turn sends a copy of affordable for a new entrepreneur.