District Environment Plan for Pakur Jharkhand State
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District Environment Plan for Pakur Jharkhand State Office of District Administration District Collector Pakur District Office: New DC Office, Saharkol, Pakur Mail: dc-pak.nic.in District Environment Plan Pakur Drafted By: Varun Ranjan, IAS, Deputy Commissioner, Pakur Rajnish Kumar, IFS, Divisional Forrest Officer Pakur Anmol Kumar Singh, JAS, Deputy Development Commissioner Cum CEO, ZP, Pakur Pradip Kumar Sah, District Mining Officer, Pakur Reviewed By: District Environment Committee, Pakur, Jharkhand For feedback or any complain: Please write to Member Secretary, District Environment Committee, Pakur, Jharkhand. [email protected] __________________________________________________ 2 | P a g e District Environment Plan Pakur Preamble Hon’ble National Green Tribunal in O.A.No-360/2018, dated 26/09/2019 ordered regarding constitution of District Committee (as part of District Planning Committee under Article 243 ZD) under Articles 243 G, 243 W, 243 ZD read with Schedules 11 and 12 and Rule 15 of the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016. In the above said order, it is stated that among others ‘Chief Secretaries may personally monitor compliance of environmental norms (Including BMW Rules) with the District Magistrate once every month. The District Magistrates may conduct such monitoring twice every month. We find in necessary to add that in view of Constitutional Provisions under Articles 243 G, 243 W, 243 ZD read with Schedules 11 and 12 and Rule 15 of the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016 it is necessary to have a District Environment Plan to be operated by a District committee (as a part of District Planning Committee under Article 243 ZD) In this regard, Environment & Forest Deptt, Govt of Jharkhand vide letter No-4869, dated 26.12.2019 instructed the Deputy Commissioners to prepare District Environment Plans by constituting District Environment Committee (as part of District Planning Committee) with representatives from Local Bodies, Regional Officers, State PCB and a Suitable officer representing the administration, which may in turn be chaired as monitored by the Deputy Commissioner/ District Magistrate. As per the directions, District Committee in respect of Pakur district was formed to evolve and execute District Environmental Plan in the Pakur District .List of members of Environment Committee; Pakur is monitored at Annexure-1. Several meetings of the District Committee to evolve the District Environment Plan in respect of Pakur District were held from Jan 2020 to August-2020. This plan has been prepared in line with the model District Environment Plan (DEP) of CPCB and covers following thematic areas: 1. Waste Management Plan (i) Solid Waste Management Plan (ii) Plastic Waste Management (iii) C&D Waste Management (iv) Biomedical Waste Management __________________________________________________ 3 | P a g e District Environment Plan Pakur (v) Hazardous Waste Management (vi) E-Waste Waste Management 2. Water Quality Management Plan 3. Domestic Sewage Management Plan 4. Industrial Management Plan 5. Air Quality Management Plan 6. Mining Activity Management Plan 7. Noise Pollution Management Plan __________________________________________________ 4 | P a g e District Environment Plan Pakur Contents 1.0 District Profile ...................................................................................................................... 4 a. District Administrative Set-up ............................................................................................ 4 b. Local institutions ................................................................................................................ 4 c. Natural Resources ............................................................................................................... 4 . Water bodies ................................................................................................................ 4 . Availability of water resources ................................................................................... 4 . Forest coverage ........................................................................................................... 4 d. Geography & Demography ................................................................................................ 4 e. Land-use patter ................................................................................................................... 4 f. Climate ................................................................................................................................ 5 2.0 Indicative Gap Analysis and Action Plans for complying with Waste Management Rules 5 (i) Solid Waste Management ...................................................................................................... 5 a. Current status related to solid Waste management ............................................................. 5 b. Identification of gaps and Action plan................................................................................ 5 (ii) Plastic waste Management .................................................................................................... 9 (a) Current status related to Plastic waste management .......................................................... 9 (b) Identification of gaps and Action plan .............................................................................. 9 (iii) C & D Waste Management ................................................................................................ 11 . a. Current status related to C & D Waste .................................................................. 11 b. Identification of gaps and Action plan ............................................................................. 11 (iv) Biomedical Waste Management ......................................................................................... 13 a. Current Status related to biomedical waste ....................................................................... 13 b. Identification of gaps and Action plan.............................................................................. 13 (v) Hazardous Waste Management ........................................................................................... 15 a. Current Status related to Hazardous Waste Management ................................................ 15 __________________________________________________ 5 | P a g e District Environment Plan Pakur b. Identification of gaps and action plan ............................................................................... 15 (vi) E-Waste Management ........................................................................................................ 17 a. Current Status related to E-Waste Management ............................................................... 17 b. Identification of gaps and action plan ............................................................................... 17 3.0 Air Quality Management .................................................................................................... 18 a. Current Status related to Air Quality Management .......................................................... 18 b. Identification of gaps and action plan ............................................................................... 19 4.0 Water Quality Management ............................................................................................... 21 4.1 Water Quality Monitoring .............................................................................................. 21 a. Current Status related to Water Quality Management ...................................................... 21 b. Identification of gaps and action plan for water quality monitoring ................................ 21 4.2 Domestic Sewage ............................................................................................................ 23 a. Identification of gaps and action plan for treatment of domestic sewage......................... 23 b. Identification of gaps and action plan for treatment of domestic sewage ........................ 23 5.0 Industrial wastewater management .................................................................................... 24 a. Current Status related to Industrial Wastewater Management ......................................... 24 b. Identification of gaps and action plan for industrial wastewater: ..................................... 24 6.0 Mining Activity Management plan .................................................................................... 25 a. Current Status related to Mining Activity Management ................................................... 25 b. Identification of gaps and action plan ............................................................................... 25 7.0 Noise Pollution Management plan ..................................................................................... 26 a. Current Status related to Noise Pollution Management .................................................... 26 b. Identification of gaps and action plan ............................................................................... 26 __________________________________________________ 6 | P a g e District Environment Plan Pakur 1.0 District Profile The district Pakur is situated in the north – eastern part of the Jharkhand state. It is bounded in the north by the Sahebganj district, in the east by West Bengal, in the south by Dumka district and part of West Bengal state and in the west by Dumka and