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| PCB consent certificates on sale, allege aspirant entrepreneurs | | | Ishtiyaq Ahmad
Early Times Report
Srinagar, June 12: At the time when the government has directed Pollution Control Board (PCB) to immediately shift to on-line system to ensure transparency and avoid delays in granting the NOC's to the aspiring industrialists in the State, it has been alleged that the certificates of consent to operate units are on sale with an impressive price tag.
Sources alleged that the Board meant to control the pollution has become a hub of corruption with the pollution levels increasing fast.
"The Jammu and Kashmir land allotment committee has allotted me one Kanal of land at one of the industrial estates of the Kashmir. Accordingly the DIC Srinagar asked me to bring the consent of establishing the unit from the PCB before going further in the case, but when I approached the PCB, the District officer Srinagar PCB asked me to arrange 15000 for issue of consent," Faisal (Name changed) told Early Times.
He said that when he asked the official that why he has to pay the money, the official replied that if you really mean the NOC then you have to pay, otherwise you will never get the NOC.
Interestingly the forest minister had called upon the functionaries of the PCB to ensure complete transparency, accountability and efficiency at all levels and had directed the concerned to immediately shift to on-line system to ensure transparency and avoid delays in granting these certificates.
The aspirant industrialists alleged that though they have brought the issue into the notice of higher authorities of Pollution control Board and government, but nobody cares for them. "Here is no action against corruption. Everybody is corrupted here," they alleged.
"We want to know from the government what the responsibility of this Organization is? Should we understand that the PCB is being established to fill the pockets of the officers sitting in the offices," they said.
One of the youth from Srinagar said that recently he approached PCB for NOC to establish a Guest house in the Rajbagh area. "I was shocked to known that the NOC will be issued only after giving bribe of 30000. But since I could not mange the amount my file was consigned to records," Muneer Ahmad of Rajbagh alleged.
Meanwhile according to the sources, scores of the mobile towers are installed without proper No Objection Certificate (NOC) by the PCB.
Sources said that such towers are installed in residential, commercial and institutional areas. "Besides most of the towers are installed in populated or dense localities where during any emergency, fire brigade or ambulance could not move with an ease,"
Sources also said that one can guess the level of corruption in Pollution Control Board that the said department has issued many NOC's against money to those who have not installed any pollution controlling device in their factories.
Sources said that the PCB is a complete failure and it would have been better for the government if they would have found out some other alternate of pollution control board.
Sources said that the staff within the pollution control board is not interested to bring transparency in the system.
It is pertinent to mention here that members of environment committee of the state legislative assembly had also accused pollution control board (PCB) of corruption.
MLA Homeshalibugh, Abdul Majid Larmi, who is also the member of environment committee of the assembly had alleged that the pollution control board meant to control the pollution has become a hub of corruption with the pollution level is increasing fast.
"You can guess the level of corruption in Pollution Control Board that my own business partner in Khatua without installing any pollution controlling device in his factory managed to obtain NOC from PCB against 2 lakh rupees," MLA Homeshalibugh, Abdul Majid Larmi had said in a seminar. |
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