SC orders provision of land for plant to treat industrial waste
A three-member bench, comprising Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmany, Justice Gulzar Ahmed passed this direction.
KARACHI:
The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday directed the civic authorities to remove encroachments from the land belonging to the sewage treatment plant of the KWSB. The bench directed the advocate-general to take up the matter of allotment of land to install a plant for the treatment of the toxic and hazardous industrial waste before its disposal into the sea, with the chief minister.
A three-member bench, comprising Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmany, Justice Gulzar Ahmed and Justice Muhammad Athar Saeed, passed this direction while hearing different human rights applications seeking directives for the authorities concerned to control growing marine pollution.
The complainants, including Vice Admiral (retd) Ahmed Tasneem and Tanvir Ahmed, claimed that marine pollution in coastal areas had increased at an alarming rate because of the discharge of untreated, hazardous industrial waste and pesticides into the sea.
On Wednesday, the apex court, which is hearing the cases at its Karachi Registry, had directed the provincial advocate-general to arrange a meeting between Board of Revenue officials and the Korangi Association of Trade and Industry representatives to solve the issue of provision of land to install a sewerage treatment plant in the relevant industrial zone.
According to Kati, the industrialists were willing to install a plant for the treatment of the toxic waste generated by their industries prior to dumping the same into the sea. They had informed the court that they wanted to install such a plant with the help of the Sindh government, which had yet to provide them with land for this purpose.
During Thursday’s hearing, the judges directed the BoR authorities to provide a piece of land to KATI which would install the treatment plant.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 30th, 2014.
The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday directed the civic authorities to remove encroachments from the land belonging to the sewage treatment plant of the KWSB. The bench directed the advocate-general to take up the matter of allotment of land to install a plant for the treatment of the toxic and hazardous industrial waste before its disposal into the sea, with the chief minister.
A three-member bench, comprising Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmany, Justice Gulzar Ahmed and Justice Muhammad Athar Saeed, passed this direction while hearing different human rights applications seeking directives for the authorities concerned to control growing marine pollution.
The complainants, including Vice Admiral (retd) Ahmed Tasneem and Tanvir Ahmed, claimed that marine pollution in coastal areas had increased at an alarming rate because of the discharge of untreated, hazardous industrial waste and pesticides into the sea.
On Wednesday, the apex court, which is hearing the cases at its Karachi Registry, had directed the provincial advocate-general to arrange a meeting between Board of Revenue officials and the Korangi Association of Trade and Industry representatives to solve the issue of provision of land to install a sewerage treatment plant in the relevant industrial zone.
According to Kati, the industrialists were willing to install a plant for the treatment of the toxic waste generated by their industries prior to dumping the same into the sea. They had informed the court that they wanted to install such a plant with the help of the Sindh government, which had yet to provide them with land for this purpose.
During Thursday’s hearing, the judges directed the BoR authorities to provide a piece of land to KATI which would install the treatment plant.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 30th, 2014.