Earlier the Madras High Court had banned the Chennai Port to handle coal on charges of severe pollution causing health hazards to the residents nearby. The Chennai Port, unable to afford to be deprived of the major source of revenue to the port, approached the Supreme Court which, in turn, appointed a panel of experts to study the problems and recommend steps to be taken by the Chennai Port so as to make it possible to receive and dispatch coal. The panel consists of secretaries of the Union Ministries of Shipping, Environment and Forests, the Chief Secretary of the Tamil Nadu, experts from Central Pollution Control Board, from Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and from National Environmental Engineering Research Institute; it is a very comprehensive panel, indeed. The panel has pointed out 25 pollution control measures and the Port is very keen that the measures are met within the deadline, namely, a period of two months. Even a monitoring committee has been appointed to supervise the progress towards achieving the end of being able to resume the coal-handling operations. A senior port official said: “There will be real time monitoring of pollution inside and outside the port area… We will rectify the mistakes of the past”.
Monday, 17 September 2012
Chennai Port “will rectify the mistakes of the past” and resume soon coal-handling
Earlier the Madras High Court had banned the Chennai Port to handle coal on charges of severe pollution causing health hazards to the residents nearby. The Chennai Port, unable to afford to be deprived of the major source of revenue to the port, approached the Supreme Court which, in turn, appointed a panel of experts to study the problems and recommend steps to be taken by the Chennai Port so as to make it possible to receive and dispatch coal. The panel consists of secretaries of the Union Ministries of Shipping, Environment and Forests, the Chief Secretary of the Tamil Nadu, experts from Central Pollution Control Board, from Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and from National Environmental Engineering Research Institute; it is a very comprehensive panel, indeed. The panel has pointed out 25 pollution control measures and the Port is very keen that the measures are met within the deadline, namely, a period of two months. Even a monitoring committee has been appointed to supervise the progress towards achieving the end of being able to resume the coal-handling operations. A senior port official said: “There will be real time monitoring of pollution inside and outside the port area… We will rectify the mistakes of the past”.
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