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ITANAGAR, 30 Jul:<\/strong> Itanagar Capital Region (ICR) Deputy Commissioner Talo Potom on Saturday asked the business establishments to install effluent treatment plants (ETP) or sewage treatment plants (STP) at the earliest.<\/p>\n Addressing a meeting with owners and representatives of hotels, automobile workshops, hospitals, etc, which were found to be operating without installation of ETP, in violation of Sections 25\/26 of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974, the DC said that “failing to install ETP or STP will invite additional environmental compensation charges.”<\/p>\n “The ETPs have to be installed at any cost,” the DC said, and added that “a drive for installation process will be carried out in a phased manner with all the big establishments being considered in the first phase.”<\/p>\n Arunachal Pradesh State Pollution Control Board Member Secretary T Riba informed that notices were served by the board to various business establishments, “in compliance with the order<\/p>\n of the National Green Tribunal to install ETP\/STP in their respective establishments by 6 July,” and said that “failing to install sewage treatment plant will continue to invite environmental compensation penalties.”<\/p>\n He said that waste generated from such establishments “are running down to rivers directly, without being treated, polluting the rivers, especially the Dikrong, the Senki and the Pachin rivers.”<\/p>\n The owners and representatives of hotels, automobile workshops, hospitals, etc, requested the district administration and the pollution control board to “regulate the cost of sewerage treatment plant installation charges.”<\/p>\n They also sought “sufficient time for installation of STP, that too, after proper survey of requirement for each establishment.”<\/p>\n Representatives of the Arunachal Chamber of Commerce & Industries requested the pollution control board to “first carry out awareness on the need for installation of STPs.”<\/p>\n Among others, SDO Sangeeta Yirang and IMC Assistant Commissioner Datum Gadi attended the meeting. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ITANAGAR, 30 Jul: Itanagar Capital Region (ICR) Deputy Commissioner Talo Potom on Saturday asked the business establishments to install effluent treatment plants (ETP) or sewage treatment plants (STP) at the earliest. Addressing a meeting with owners and representatives of hotels, automobile workshops, hospitals, etc, which were found to be operating without installation of ETP, in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-196781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}