OPCB serves closure notice to hotels in Puri beach

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Puri, Nov 10 (UNI) The Orissa Pollution Control Board(OPCB) has finally issued the order of closure to a number of hotels and other commercial establishments of the city for violating its rules.

The order has been issued under section 33-A of the Water (prevention and control of pollution) Act 1974. The District Magistrate has been asked to ensure the closure of the units.

The OPCB has also directed the Executive Engineer CESCO to disconnect the power supply to all these units.

The closure notices were issued after Beach Protection Council President Jagannath Bastia raised serious allegation of gross violation of the pollution control norms before Chief Minister Naveen Pattnaik.

Mr Pattnaik had reverently asked the board officials to conduct a detailed physical inquiry of hotels and commercial establishments and identify the pollutant hotels located along the beach line.

Accordingly a team of scientists and engineers from the OPCB had inspected about 35 hotels and lodging houses in July last and reported that most of these units were running without having necessary permission from the board.

These establishments, the team claimed were found discharging the untreated waste and sewerage water to the sea much above the prescribed Biological oxygen Demand(BoD ) standard.

In the first phase, closure order has been issued to a newly constructed multi-storied hotel in the Baliapanda area and a prawn processing plant at a close proximity to the city along the NH 203 while about six more orders were in the process, the sources in the board said.

The apex court in 1995 had directed the state pollution control board to close all polluting units in this holy city.

The OPCB has issued show cause notice to the Executive Engineer Public Health on the release of untreated waste water to the sea.

As per the direction of the Supreme court a Rs 6 crore waste water treatment plant was commissioned in 1996. The plant later became non functional.

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