Kochi Corporation told to explain violations at Brahmapuram yard
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State Pollution Control Board to issue show-cause notice to civic body
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State Pollution Control Board to issue show-cause notice to civic body The State Pollution Control Board (PCB) will issue show-cause notice to the Kochi Corporation asking it to explain the steps taken to address the violations detected at the Brahmapuarm waste dumping yard.
The notice will be served based on the board’s findings gathered during the inspection held at the yard on March 3. The Corporation will be told to elaborate on the continuing incidents of fire outbreaks at the site, where heaps of waste have been lying idle for long. The local body had failed to contain the repeated fires that resulted in air pollution, besides triggering the possibility of causing harm to the public, said senior board officials. A major fire occurred at the yard on March 5.
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A view of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), in New Delhi. File
| Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma “Long stories of all-round failure of the administration are poor substitute for good governance required to enforce environmental rule of law for protection of public health and the environment,” observed the Principal Bench of the National Green Tribunal while considering the Brahmapuram case in January.
The Bench led by its chairperson Adarsh Kumar Goel had said that the “fact remains that the administration is patently a failure in protecting citizens’ right to clean environment, which is in no way less important than the right to live in crime free environment”.
Fire breaks out at Brahmapuram again
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Waste at the site caught fire once in 2020 and multiple times in 2019
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Fire that broke out at the Brahmapuram solid waste treatment plant on Friday. | Photo Credit:
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Waste at the site caught fire once in 2020 and multiple times in 2019
With summer, fire outbreaks have begun in tonnes of garbage lying at the dumping yard at Brahmapuram. Garbage at the yard caught fire around noon on Friday, and was brought under control by evening, though some parts continued to smoulder, leaving residual smoke. Waste at the site has caught fire once in 2020 and multiple times in 2019, around this time of the year.
Ensure proper treatment of sewage at Kaloor stadium, NGT tells Kochi Corporation, GCDA
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‘Poor condition of treatment plant resulted in sewage being discharged into nearby drains’
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‘Poor condition of treatment plant resulted in sewage being discharged into nearby drains’ The National Green Tribunal has asked the Kochi Corporation and the Greater Cochin Development Authority (GCDA) to carry out the directions given by the State Pollution Control Board for the effective management of waste generated at the Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium complex in Kaloor.
The Southern Bench of the Tribunal comprising Justice K. Ramakrishnan and expert member Saibal Dasgupta gave the direction while disposing of a petition filed by the Lawyers’ Environmental Awareness Forum, stating that the poor condition of the sewage treatment plant installed at the stadium had resulted in sewage being discharged into the nearby drains, in violation of norms an