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KTR bats for pollution free Hyderabad
State government has plans to shift polluting industries out of the city, Urban Development Minister K T Rama Rao said on Wednesday. “We want to make Hyderabad a city sans industrial pollution, a city with zero industrial pollution.
Hyderabad: State government has plans to shift polluting industries out of the city, Urban Development Minister K T Rama Rao said on Wednesday. “We want to make Hyderabad a city sans industrial pollution, a city with zero industrial pollution.
We are trying to relocate the 'red' and 'orange' industries from within outer ring road (ORR) to outside of the city,” KTR said. These include chemical units, those in ferro-alloys space and makers of bulk drugs, the Minister said at the CII-organised "MAN'EXE-2016" on the theme 'Make in Telangana: Sustainable Growth through Innovation and Future Technologies.
“There is no need for industries already certified for complying with zero liquid discharge to shift," he said adding that those who were not (compliant), would be definitely requested to relocate to different clusters outside ORR in a time-bound phased manner.
The relocation does not mean shifting of the pollution problem from Hyderabad to another area, said the Minister. “When they shift to these clusters, they should be 100 per cent pollution-free. We also have a plan in a time-bound manner, along with Telangana State Industrial Infrastructure Corporation, to create common affluent treatment plants in each of these clusters even before these industries move out, so that there is no pollution problem in new locations," the Minister said.
As part of relocation, the government would come out with a separate incentive policy, under which industries which move out would be incentivised, KTR added.
