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2023 Supreme(Online)(NGT) 601
Item No. 05 Court No. 1 BEFORE THE NATIONAL GREEN TRIBUNAL PRINCIPAL BENCH, NEW DELHI Original Application No. 814/2022 (With report dated 17.03.2023)
Pradeep Sharma Applicant Versus State of U.P. Respondent Date of hearing: 18.04.2023 CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE ADARSH KUMAR GOEL, CHAIRPERSON HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SUDHIR AGARWAL, JUDICIAL MEMBER HON’BLE DR. A. SENTHIL VEL, EXPERT MEMBER Applicant: Mr. Pradeep Sharma, Applicant in Person
ORDER
1. Grievance in this application is against violation of environmental norms by two slaughter houses - International Agro Food Private Limited and Al-Naseer Agro Private Limited in Village Bhoodgadhi, District Ghaziabad, UP. It is stated that the said units are discharging pollutants directly in a drain contaminating ground water and causing health hazards.
2. Vide order dated 06.01.2023, the Tribunal sought a factual report in the matter from a joint Committee of State PCB, CPCB and District Magistrate, Ghaziabad.
3. In pursuance of above, the joint Committee has filed its report through ADM, Ghaziabad as follows:-
“1. Details about the Unit i.e. Mis. International Agro Foods, 2764, 2765, 2766, Bhoorgarhi, Dasna, Ghaziabad.
The unit has infrastructure for production of frozen boneless buffalo meat, poultry feed supplement (PFS), tallow and blood meal. UPPCB has granted Consent for slaughtering of 750 big animals (buffalos) per day and frozen meat production of 98 MT/day. All the processes were found in operation. The details of the unit are as follow:
| General Information | ||
| 1. | Raw material | Live Buffaloes |
| 2. | Consented production capacity for Products/By- products | Frozen meat - 98 MT/Day Bone meal- 29.4 MT/day Tallow- 9.8 MT/day Blood Meal- 1.125 MT/day |
| 3. | Consented/present slaughtering | Consented slaughtering capacity - 750 buffaloes/day. However, on the day of inspection, slaughtering of about 330 buffaloes were going on. |
| Information pertaining to water consumption and waste water generation | ||
| 4. | Freshwater source & consumption (kl/ day) | 02 nos. of bore wells provided with Electromagnetic flow meters of capacity 15 HP, and 1.5 HP As per records maintained by the Unit , the raw water consumption details are as follow : Average groundwater extraction in the month of January 2023 has been recorded as 344 KL/day which includes water for domestic purposes (around 15 KL/ day). |
| 5. | Type of flow meter(s) | Electromagnetic flow meters installed on both bore wells. |
| 6. | Flow meter Reading (s) | Bore well 1- Total flow - 504730 m3 (Totalizer reading) Bore well 2 - Total Flow - 58408 m3 (Totalizer reading) |
| 7. | Status of NOC from CGWA for ground water extraction | NOC granted from UPGWD up to 18.06.2026 for 2,32.200 m3/year for abstraction of ground water. Annexure-I |
| 8. | Consented wastewater discharge (KLD) | Industrial - 500 KLD Domestic -12 KLD As per industry representative and record submitted by the industry treated effluent is not being discharged in any drain. The treated effluent generated by the industry is being used in gardening, washing, cooling towers, sprinkling on Highway/ Road and used for irrigation. |
| 9. | Consent Status under the Water Act, 1974 | The Unit has consent with validity up to 31.12.2024. Annexure II. |
| 10. | Status of OCEMS | The unit has installed OCEMS for all the requisite parameters i.e. pH, TSS, SOD, COD and Flow and connected to CPCB server. On the day of inspection, the OCEMS was found in operation and parameters were found within the prescribed norms. |
| 11. | ETP details | The Unit has installed ETP with hydraulic treatment capacity of 750 KLD based on two stages Activated Sludge Process. ETP is comprised of primary treatment and secondary treatment followed by tertiary treatment. The unit comprises Oil & Grease tank, Holding tank, Solid Separator, Equalization tank, Reaction tank, DAF system, Primary Clarifier, UASB (Digester), Aeration Tank-1, Secondary Clarifier-1, Aeration Tank-2, Secondary Clarifier-II, Disinfection tank, Pressure Sand filter, Activated carbon filter, filter tank, Digital Flow meter, OCEMS, Treated water storage tank (2300KL), Karnal technology supply pump, Sludge drying beds, Sludge Dewatering System (Decanter) etc. The unit has installed Blood Meal Plant with blood pump, screw pump and agitator (Blood coagulator). | |
| 12. | Quantification of effluent generation | As per record of ETP logbook provided by the unit, the average quantity of treated wastewater in the month of January & February is 364 KLD. Annexure III. | |
| 13. | Mode of Effluent disposal | Treated effluen | |
