National Pollution Control Day - December 2

National Pollution Control Day - December 2.

December 2 National Pollution Control Day

The National Pollution Control Day is celebrated every year on 2nd of December in India.

In this day,  in order to give the honor and memorialize the thousands of human beings who had lost their existence because of the Bhopal gas calamity.

Bhopal gas tragedy was happened in the night of 2nd & 3rd December in the year 1984 because of the unintentional discharge of the poisonous chemical known as Methyl Isocyanate (also called MIC) as well as some other chemicals released from the Union Carbide Chemical Plant positioned in the Bhopal city.

According to the report, more than 5 lakh people (of which about 2260 were died immediately) were exposed to the poisonous gas of MIC. Later, it was declared by the government of Madhya Pradesh that about 3,790 deaths were related to the gas tragedy.

In the next 72 hours, nearly 8,000 to 10,000 people were died whereas about 25,000 people were died later because of the gas-related diseases.

Bhopal gas tragedy  was identified as the biggest industrial pollution disaster of the history worldwide which needed serious preventive measures suddenly in order to stay away from such type of disaster in the future.

Why National Pollution Control Day?

* National pollution control day is celebrated every year on 2nd of December to make aware the people and most importantly to aware the industries about paying great attention towards the need of Pollution Control Acts.

* One of the leading factors of celebrating the national pollution control day every year is to manage & control the Industrial Disaster as well as prevention of the pollution (created by the industrial processes or manual negligence) of water, air & soil.

* Varieties of laws are declared by the Government all over world in order to seriously control and prevent the pollution.

What are the Prevention Methods taken by the Indian Legislation?

 

Indian government has launched the variety of serious acts and rules for the control and prevention of pollution all over the India.

Some of are:

* Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act of 1974

* Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Cess Act of 1977

* Air (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act of 1981

* Environment (Protection) Rules of 1986

* Environment (Protection) Act of 1986

* Manufacture, Storage and Import of Hazardous Chemical Rules of1989

* Hazardous Waste (Management & Handling) Rules of 1989

* Manufacture, Storage, Import, Export & Storage of Hazardous Micro- Organisms Genetically Engineered Organisms or Cells Rules of 1989

* Chemical Accidents (Emergency, Planning, Preparedness and Response) Rules of 1996

* Bio-Medical Waste (Management & Handling) Rules of 1998

* Recycled Plastics Manufacture & Usage Rules of 1999

* Ozone Depleting Substances (Regulation) Rules of 2000

*Noise Pollution (Regulation & Control) Rules of 2000

* Municipal Solid Waste (Management & Handling) Rules of 2000

* Batteries (Management & Handling) Rules of 2001.

* Maharashtra Bio- Degradable Garbage (Control) Ordinance of 2006

* Environment Impact Assessment Notification of 2006

What are the functions of National Pollution Control Board?

The well functioning or malfunctioning of all the laws and rules are checked by the National Pollution Control Board (NPCB) or Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) which is the governing body in India for the prevention of pollution.

NPCB always checks that whether the environment friendly technologies are utilized by all the industries in the right way or not.

Tamilnadu has its own control board called Tamilnadu Pollution Control Board (http://www.tnpcb.gov.in/ - TNPCB) as it urgently required the pollution control methods as it is one of the big states where the rate of industrialization is increasing very rapidly.

The natural resources such water, air, land or / forest are being affected speedily by the different types of pollution which are very necessary to stop immediately by implementing the rules and regulations in the right way.

What are the  Pollution Control Measures?

*. Recycling

*.Reusing

*. Reducing

*.Preventing

*. Use Compost

*Urban Waste water treatment and reuse project

*Scientific treatment of solid waste and its management

* Reduce generation of waste

*Sewage treatment facility

* Reuse of waste and producing energy from the waste.

* Biomedical waste treatment facility

* Electronic waste treatment facility

* Water supply projects

* Resources recovery project

* Energy saving projects

* Hazardous waste management in urbanized areas

* Projects on the Clean Development Mechanism

 There are many other efforts as well taken by the state government by making the pollution controlling Policy, proper implementation of rules and all the preventive measures of pollution. Industries are the first who must follow all the rules and regulations launched by Authority to control & reduce the pollution.

 

Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board,

76, Mount Salai,

Guindy, Chennai - 600 032

Tel: 044 - 22353134 - 141

Fax: 044 - 22353068

Email-ID: tnpcb@md3.vsnl.net.in

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