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Exit for 100 Hyderabad polluting units
Nearly 100 pollution-causing industries will be shifted out of Hyderabad in the next three months. Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister K T Rama Rao gave an assurance to this effect in Assembly on Wednesday.
​Hyderabad: Nearly 100 pollution-causing industries will be shifted out of Hyderabad in the next three months. Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister K T Rama Rao gave an assurance to this effect in Assembly on Wednesday.
The MAUD minister was replying to various supplementary questions on lakes being polluted in Hyderabad because of the effluents of industries raised by BJP member K Laxman. There were 185 lakes in GHMC and 3,132 lakes in HMDA areas and over the years these were exposed to various inlets, including sewerage water. The GHMC would take up restoration of 20 lakes within GHMC and another 20 lakes in HMDA area, he said.
The minister said that the pollution was manmade calamity as the domestic sewage was diverted into the lakes. The minister said that there were 56 nalas in Hyderabad and about 90 per cent of the sewage from the city went into the Musi river. Everyday 1,400 million litres per day (MLD) of sewerage enters into Musi and the present treatment capacity was 710 MLD.
The government directed the apartments with over 100 units to have their own sewerage treatment plant (STP). Stating that most of the apartments were not following directions, the Minister said that strict action would be taken against the erring apartments from now onwards.
He said that there were 1,234 industries under Red and Orange zones causing pollution. The government has identified nine sites outside Hyderabad and within three months 100 such industries would be shifted out of the city, said the minister. Regarding the Pharma City, the minister said that once the government gets environment clearance, Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) would be set up in the area.
