ATTENTION MEMBERS
Shri Keshav Kamat who represents GSIA on the Goa State Pollution Control Board explained about the discussions and decisions taken by the Board on “Categorization of Industries and Consent to Operate under Water & Air Acts”.
The matter was discussed in the 77th GSPCB Meeting held on 29/01/07 and the Categorization of Industries has been finalized and notification will be issued shortly by the Government.
Shri Keshav Kamat appraised the members that the validity for SSIs;
categorized as orange and specified orange shall be 12 years with two times the present fee for Consent to operate under Water and Air Act and
15 years for SSI which are categorized as green category with two times the present fee.
Besides those units registered permanently with DITC and not obtained the Consent so far shall be charged one time fee for the the past period on prorata basis and no late fees will be charged upto 31/03/07.
However, if the units registered permanently as SSI do not apply by 31st March, 2007 they will have to pay all the past fees as well as the late fee.
A Composite Form will be introduced in March 2007 under which one can apply to obtain Consent under Air ; Water and Hazardous Waste Management Act at a time.