The Telangana State Pollution Control Board Task Force Committee has asked the builders and developers to obtain consent for establishment and operation under the Section 25/26 of the Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act within two months.
Action will be taken against the establishments which fail to obtain the consents before October 31, it warned.
At its meeting on Tuesday with representatives of the CREDAI and TREDA, and other developers of construction projects, the committee explained the Environmental Impact Assessment Notification issued in 2006 covered all buildings and construction projects with more than 20,000 square metres and the area development projects and townships with 50 hectares and more extent. They all require prior environmental clearance, it said. It was informed that said the board has been receiving a number of complaints about odour, emissions, and discharge of untreated sewage into water bodies nearby.
All the construction projects should ensure adequate Sewage Treatment Plants, and solid waste management structures established on the premises through bio-methanisation or organic converters, before disposing of the waste, a press release from the TSPCB said.
