By Our Reporter
SHILLONG, March 8: An environmental compensation of Rs 26,85,000 were imposed against the thirty-six violators and polluting units in the state during the financial year 2021-2022.
The NGT order stated, ‘The CPCB may take penal action for failure, if any, against those accountable for setting up and maintaining STPs, CETPs and ETPs. CPCB may also assess and recover compensation for damage to the environment and said fund may be kept in a separate account and utilized in terms of an action plan for protection of the environment.”
In pursuance to the Resolution of Agenda No. 6 of the 82nd meeting of the Meghalaya State Pollution Control Board held on March 19, 2022, the board recommended that the ‘Report of the CPCB In-house Committee on Methodology for Assessing Environmental Compensation and Action Plan to Utilize the Fund’ be adopted for assessment, imposing, collection.
Meanwhile, the MSPCB has entrusted Knowledge Lens Pvt. Ltd. with the job of connecting all the industries in Meghalaya State to Meghalaya State Pollution Control Board and the Central Pollution Control Board. Keeping up with the current government norms and applying the latest technologies all the industry’s data about Emission Monitoring and Air Quality Monitoring using various instruments available in the market is being captured and transmitted to the Pollution Control Boards.
Knowledge Lens Pvt. Ltd. has specifically developed and provided a single server platform known as Green Lens (Glens) and installed it on the cloud server for the Pollution Control Board.
The pollution data about Emission and Air Quality is directly captured from different make of instruments installed at the industries and the data is transmitted to the Pollution Control Board using a dedicated internet connection provided by these industries.
The data is presented to the Pollution Control Boards and the industries in a user-friendly format.
A website address, username and password have been provided to the Pollution Control Board and the industries for viewing the transmitted data in graphical and text format and for downloading the reports. Using their respective username and passwords, the Pollution Control Board can view the data of all the industries in Meghalaya connected to the single server platform while the industry can view its data only.
The single server platform provided to the Meghalaya State Pollution Control Board on a cloud platform can keep data records of all the connected industries for over 10 years and present it to the pollution control board as and when required.