CIAL plant work on sans nod

Kochi: It has now come to light that the Cochin Inter-national Airport Limited (CIAL) had not obtained clearance from the Kerala Pollution Control Board (KPCB) and the Nedumbassery panchayat before initiating work on the new sewage plant at the airport.
Answering a Right to Information query, the KPCB on January 28 said that the new treatment plant of the airport had not obtained its permission.
However, the KPCB said it had received an application from CIAL for creating a new waste water purification process on January 24.
The Nedumbassery panchayat, under whose jurisdiction the sewage treatment plant comes, also has said in reply to an RTI query on February 9 that it has not given a no-objection certificate (NOC) for the construction of the new sewage plant. The panchayat, surprisingly, added that for the existing plant also it had not given a licence to CIAL.
When contacted, CIAL official V. Sankar said that CIAL is not building a new sewage plant but was augmenting the capacity of the existing plant from 300 CMP to 750 CMP.
“Apart from capacity augmentation, we are going for modernisation of the plant and the documents for the same have been submitted to the KPCB in anticipation of approval,” he said. He added that he has to check the records to comment on the status with Nedumbassery panchayat.
18/02/12 Vinod Nedumudy/Deccan Chronicle

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Categories: airports Feb 2012