Pollution board keen on online consent forms
GURGAON: In a bid to streamline its online setup, the pollution board
has written to all its regional officers to ensure that consent
applications forms of industrialists are processed only through the new
system. The board has made filing online applications mandatory in all
regions of Haryana, with the online consent management and monitoring
system (OCMMS) now up and running.
The letter, demanding 'strict compliance,' directs the board's officials to "process the consent applications only through the OCMMS."
Consent applications are issued by the department to industrial houses on an annual basis, and are granted only after an undertaking along with a consent-fee is submitted by the applicant. The amount of money charged depends on the category in which the applicant's manufacturing unit falls, which itself is gauged by the volume of pollutants emitted.
The department officials say that over 2,500 industries have registered with the OCMMS, with the number expected to go up in the coming months. "We have been having seminars and presentations across Gurgaon and other districts, to create awareness of the new system within the industrial community," said an official.
Up until the month of May, the board has received around 859 consent applications on its online system from various industrial belts.
The letter, demanding 'strict compliance,' directs the board's officials to "process the consent applications only through the OCMMS."
Consent applications are issued by the department to industrial houses on an annual basis, and are granted only after an undertaking along with a consent-fee is submitted by the applicant. The amount of money charged depends on the category in which the applicant's manufacturing unit falls, which itself is gauged by the volume of pollutants emitted.
The department officials say that over 2,500 industries have registered with the OCMMS, with the number expected to go up in the coming months. "We have been having seminars and presentations across Gurgaon and other districts, to create awareness of the new system within the industrial community," said an official.
Up until the month of May, the board has received around 859 consent applications on its online system from various industrial belts.
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