Comply with directions or face closure: NGT to Jindal waste

The National Green Tribunal today warned Jindal Urban Infrastructure Ltd (JUIL), a company of Jindal Saw Group Ltd, to ensure its waste disposal plant in Okhla here complies with NGT's directions or faces closure.
A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar gave the direction while declining the plea of Sukhdev Vihar Residents Welfare Association (SVRWA) for shutting down the plant as an interim measure.
The Tribunal directed the Jindal group company to ensure within three weeks that all the parameters of its plant are within the prescribed limits.
The company will also have to make sure that the municipal solid waste it handles is automatically and properly segregated prior to being put in the plant for disposal, the bench said.

"As an interim measure, we decline the request of applicant (SVRWA) for closure of the plant. The project proponent (JUIL) shall, within a period of three weeks from today, ensure that all the said parameters are brought within prescribed limits. Complete steps should be taken to ensure automatic and proper segregation of municipal solid waste before it is put in the plant for disposal.
"We make it clear that in the event of project proponent defaulting in compliance of directions of the Tribunal, the Tribunal would be compelled to direct the closure of this industry...," the bench said.

After expiry of the three weeks' time, an inspection team would check the plant and place its findings before the bench before the next date of hearing, the Tribunal said.

The Executive Director of the company has been made personally responsible by the Tribunal for carrying out its directions, in default of which he shall be proceeded against under the provisions of the NGT Act.
The bench passed the order on the plea by SVRWA which has sought that the waste-to-energy plant at Okhla be closed, construction thereof be stopped and the unit be removed.