ORDER

1. The applicant has raised the issue of discharge of untreated effluents by Pharmaceutical Formulation unit situated in Sector-2, Pithampur, ‘IPCA Laboratories Limited’ where multiple kind of medicines are formulated and prayed to issue direction to the authorities to stop the untreated effluents discharging from the factory of IPCA Laboratories Limited to Nallahs which are flowing into Angred River of Sagore Village carries large amount of effluents from adjacent Industries which in turn spoil the water quality of River Angared which is tributary to River Chambal and River Chambal is tributary of River Yamuna which in turn is tributary of Ganga and joins Ganga at Prayagraj, U.P.), causing unfavorable changes in physiochemical Parameters. Despite protest by people and representation/Complaint made by the Applicant neither the State Government and State Pollution Control Board nor the Central Government have taken any action and the polluting industry has been continuously violating the environmental norms by discharging toxic effluents. The print and electronic media also highlighted the issue of discharge of untreated effluent by reporting and bring it to public domain but not action has been taken by the authorities.

2. The matter was taken up by this Tribunal on 20^th May, 2021 and a Joint Committee was constituted in the following manner :

(i) District Collector, District Dhar (M.P.)

(ii) Central Pollution Control Board, E-5, Link Road No. 3, Ekant Park, Arera Colony, Bhopal (iii) Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board

3. In response thereof, the Joint Committee had submitted the report which is as follows:

“2. The committee visited the above factory M/s IPCA Laboratories Ltd. which is located in plot No. 1, SEZ, Phase- 2, Sector-3, Industrial area Pithampur, District-Dhar. The industry is involved formulation of medicine only quoted and unquoted tablet. The technical details related to products, production capacity, water consumption, waste water quantity and treatment plant installed by the industry are submitted here in below:

S. No.	Particulars	Information
1	Name of industry /unit and location	M/s IPCA Laboratories Ltd., SEZ Plot no. 1, Phase- 2, Industrial Area Pithampur, District Dhar (M.P.)
2	Date of Inspection/ Monitoring	11.06.2021
3	Name of Representative of Industry	(Vice • Mr. Manoj Kumar Mittal president – EHS Corporate
4	Details of Consent & HWA issued by MPPCB	Consent No. AW 53447, Validity- 31.01.2022 Consent No. H 47465, Validity 31.10.2022
5	Product Name and	Product Name Capacity

Quantity (As per Tablets & 600 Cr. Nos. /

	Quantity (As per consent issued by MPPCB)	Tablets & Capsules			600 Cr. Nos. / Annum
	6 Water Consumption Boiler Feed Cooling Water Domestic Purpose Manufacturing Process	As per Consent			Actual
		20 KLD 10 KLD 80 KLD 150 KLD			10 KLD 08 KLD 55 KLD 108 KLD
7 Wastewater	I generation ndustrial domestic	As per Consent			Actual
		1 04 KLD 41 KLD			100 KLD 41 KLD
8	Pollution Control Measures
a) Details	of ETP for treatment of effluent		Industry has installed ETP (Capacity: 140 KLD) and the ETP consist of Inlet cum screen chamber, Oil and grease trap, equalization tank, flash mixture, Flocculation, Primary setting tank, Aeration tank, Secondary setting tank pressure sand filter, activated carbon filter, final treated water tank, filter press.
b) Detail	of STP for treatment of domestic waste water		Industry has installed STP (Capacity 50 KLD) and the STP consist of Inlet screen chamber, Oil chamber, Aeration tank, settler, carbon filter, sand filter, sludge dewatering unit, treated water collection tank.
c)	Source of Air Pollution and arrangements for control of air pollution		Boiler (02 Nos.)
			03 ton/Hr. (FO Stack of Fired) height 38
			meter dumper 02Hr. (FO Fired)
			DG Set (03 No.)

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