Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar will be on a three-day visit to the Northeast states of Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura starting tomorrow where he will hold meetings with forest officials and farmers to discuss various issues.
Javadekar will interact with officials in the three states apart from meeting people from local communities and farmers practicing shifting cultivation.
The Minister will start the visit tomorrow with a meeting with forest officers in Imphal in Manipur, followed by a meeting with farmers. He will later visit the Kangla Fort.
On Saturday, Javadekar will visit Loktak Lake and the Keibul Lamjao National Part (KLNP) in Bishnupur district of Manipur, an official statement said.
KLNP is the only floating park in the world and is an integral part of Loktak Lake.
On his arrival in Lengpui in Aizawl, the Union Minister will pay a visit to Advanced Research Centre of Bamboo (ARCB), Forest Training School to inaugurate a training institute under Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) of the Environment Ministry.
The Minister will also hold an interaction with bamboo entrepreneurs in Aizawl.
On Sunday, Javadekar will visit Tripura Forest Development Corporation (TFDC) in Agartala and hold discussion with rubber growers and artisans producing rubber products at TFDC.
The Minister will also meet forest officials and pay a visit to Siphaijala sanctuary the same evening to conclude the visit, the statement said.
"Data connectivity has been established with 1,101 units
of 17 categories with CPCB and SMS alerts and emails are automatically generated whenever standards are exceeded for more than 15 minutes.
"On an average, around 1,000 SMSs for exceedances are being generated on daily basis besides emails and these SMSs are being sent to stakeholders (CPCB, SPCB and industry). Industries are taking action based on the information received to control emission and effluents and report this action taken on an email id cems.Cpcb@nic.In," Javadekar added.
Some of the industries like oil refineries and petrochemical have requested time upto June 30 since in installation of online monitoring systems for parameters like PM and CO requires shutdown which is carried out as per schedule decided by the Ministry of Petroleum.
Power plants have also requested time upto June 30 for installation of online monitoring system.
"Not only they fitted it, they have improved their processes. They have improved their effluent-treatment mechanism, primary clarifier and for chimneys they also replaced their air bag filters and several other measures.
"This is a big step forward for regulation of pollution and this is a big boost to the Swachh Bharat campaign," the minister said.
