Haryana Launches Ambitious Environment Plan

The environment department of the Haryana government has launched a comprehensive scheme plan for the conservation and preservation of environment in the state. The plan includes creating awareness about environment, setting up of special environment courts, development of eco-towns, eco-villages and eco-clubs, promotion of common effluent treatment plants, management of fly ash generated by thermal plants and disposal of solid waste.

State environment minister Subhash Chand said the department of environment has already taken up a project to prepare the status report on pollution of underground water and, testing of pesticidal and urea contamination in milk in the state.

The minister said the department will spend Rs 1.19 crore on various programmes of environment protection during the current financial year, up from Rs 83 lakh spent last year.

The department has already set up an environment court at Faridabad to ensure speedy disposal of cases. Another environment court is under the process of being set up at Hissar.

The Haryana government has decided to develop Panipat as an eco-town. The department of environment is also in the process of setting up eco-villages all over the state in order to make the rural areas clean and environmentally healthy. To begin with, three villages in each district will be identified to be covered under the eco-village project.

The department has set up eco-clubs in various schools all over the state to create awareness about environment protection among students.

The minister highlighted that as a result of the efforts made by the environment department, the Haryana State Electricity Board had given a project to Bhel for management of fly ash at the Panipat plant.