Vadodara: Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) sent closure notices to 6 industrial units in Nandesari GIDC and ordered MGVCL to cut their electricity connections for allegedly polluting the water of Mini River. MGVCL cut the electricity connections of Jaitik International, Link Pharma chem, Megha Dychem, Shakti Ammonia, Panoli intermediate unit 3, and unit 1 to 8. GPCB sent a closure notice to them last week for a breach of environmental norms. The managers of the company had asked MGVCL for...Read More

Gandhinagar: The Kalol court, in a verdict of a case, filed 27 years ago, has sentenced the partners of a chemical company in Kalol GIDC to two-year imprisonment and a Rs 10 thousand fine for releasing polluted water without permission. Bharat Petrochemical Corporation, located in the Kalol GIDC area, had been releasing 500 litres of polluted water daily without purification, which was produced during the production process of white oil and solvent using kerosene, diesel, and sulfuric acid as...Read More

Amdavad: The roadside tea will not be served in paper cups from now on. After banning plastic, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has banned the usage of paper tea cups in Ahmedabad from January 20. The civic body announced that after 20th January 2023, AMC will go for a checking campaign. During this, action will be taken against those who sell tea in plastic and paper cups. Harshad Solanki, Director of AMC's solid waste management dept, said that for the last 10 days, AMC official...Read More

Ahmedabad: 672 textile processing units will resume operations in October as the new Common Effluent Treatment Plants (CETP) will be operational from the first week of next month. These units in Behrampura and Danilimda were closed nine months ago due to pollution issues. A senior official of GPCB told the media that these units were shut down because they did not have CEPT, now after the CEPT work is complete, member units can start production after getting consolidated consent and authorisa...Read More

Jetpur: The work of establishing a caustic recovery, reuse, and purification plant at Jetpur in Rajkot district at a cost of Rs 150 crore is about to be completed. Jetpur town in Rajkot district, famous for the colorful cotton sari industry, faced the issue of polluted and chemical mixed water released from the dyeing units. As per the orders of the National Green Tribunal and Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB), the release of chemical mixed water from all the dyeing units of the dying ...Read More

Ahmedabad : Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has charged two companies of Vapi with a penalty of Rs 60 lakh for the usage of spent acid without permission. As per the rules of GPCB, the units using and selling spent acid are supposed to take approval as per rules-9. The two companies Creative textile mills and Kunder chemicals didn't take the approval. GPCB punished Creative textiles with a penalty of Rs 35 lakh and Kunder chemicals with a penalty of Rs 25 lakh. The VS enterprise com...Read More

Surat: The police found in the investigation that over 1 lakh liters of sodium hydrosulphide was dumped in the pit using four tankers prior to recent incident of gas-leakage  in Sachin GIDC, Surat. The crime-branch has nabbed 3 officials of Mumbai based Hikal Ltd. company and the owner of Bajrang mill in Sachin GIDC. The police have got the remands of these accused till 17th January. The accused nabbed by the crime-branch are Hikal company EHS head Mansukh Gokalbhai Patel, general manager...Read More

Gandhinagar: Chief Minister Rupani will allocate plots to 138 industrialists of Gujarat at GIDC, Chhatar Mittanna, Tankara of Morbi by an e-draw through video-conferencing from Gandhinagar, on Monday. Besides this, the Chief Minister will also make e-launching of CETP plants for disposal of waste and treatment water used by the industries at GIDC of Saykha and Dahej in Bharuch. It is planned to develop Chhatar GIDC over 24 hectare of land area. Here, 127 plots, ranging between 500 and 3...Read More