A delegation of Panipat industrialists met with Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar at his residence in Chandigarh. They were concerned about the ban orders issued by the Commission of Air Quality Management (CAQM) regarding the use of diesel generator (DG) sets by industries in the National Capital Region (NCR) as of 1st October.
Pritam Singh Sachdeva, president, Panipat Industrialists’ Association; Bheem Rana, president, Haryana Environmental Management Society; and Nitin Arora, adviser, Panipat Dyers’ Association, were part of the delegation.
According to Sachdeva, the majority of Haryana’s industries were impacted by CAQM’s instructions because 64% of the state’s land is in the NCR, where 90% of businesses are open for business.
Panipat is a textile hub having continuous process industries. He claimed that because diesel generators were not economically viable, industrialists were not satisfied using them.
“But in emergency breakdown situations, we have no other option,” he said. “If power breakdown occurs, we need to supply power and fuel to the boilers and thermopacks immediately. If that is not done, a big mishap can occur,” Sachdeva said.
