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MPCB issues closure notice to a chemical unit in Palghar
Mirror Online / Updated: Jan 27, 2021, 15:46 IST
MIDC), failed to adhere to pollution prevention norms. MPCB sends closure notice.
The
Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has issued a closure notice to a chemical unit in Palghar for allegedly violating various pollution norms.
MPCB’s regional office at
Thane issued the notice on January 25. The MPCB had asked the chemical unit – Seya Industries Limited, located at Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC), in Tarapur to shut the manufacturing in 72 hours.
MPCB alleged that the chemical unit has not been adhering to pollution prevention norms. In the notice, MPCB has listed several lapses by MIDC – including consumption of coal more than the consented limit, non-disposal of any hazardous waste to the Common Hazardous Waste treatment among others from April to October last year.