“You people want everything at a concessional rate like land, power, etc. and also the right to tamper with the environment.” These are words of the Rajasthan High Court which has stuck to its earlier order directing the Pollution Control Board to close down all polluting textile units working without a no-objection certificate (NOC) in the Sanganeer block. Chief Justice Sunil Ambwani and V S Siradhana while hearing a PIL on the encroachment and pollution of the Draviyawati river said that the issue of setting up of a Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) was pending for the past 12 years after the High Court had given direction in this regard on March 2003 but no effort was made to comply with the order. The court said it cannot not give more time and the polluting industrial units have to be shut down immediately.
The Sanganeer Kapada Rangai and Chappai Association, which joined as a party to the petition, informed the court through its counsels R K Agarwal and Prateek Kasliwal that the work for setting up of the CETP is already on. Sanganeer Pradushan Nivaran Samiti has been constituted under the chairmanship of district collector.
