Waste disposal: NGT slaps penalty on KGMU, BRD medical college
Yusra Husain | TNN | Updated: Jan 24, 2019, 21:11 IST
LUCKNOW: Gorakhpur based Baba Raghav Das (BRD) medical college and Lucknow based King George’s Medical University (KGMU) have been directed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to deposit Rs 1 crore and Rs 10 lakh respectively with the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB), having flouted norms of medical waste disposal.
The NGT has asked the UPPCB to use the compensatory cost from both medical institutions for “restoration of environment and to help victims of diseases.” It has further asked UPPCB to conduct health impact study and furnish an action report to the tribunal within one month.
The decision by NGT was made by its principal bench headed by Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel and included members Justice SP Wangdi, Justice Ramakrishnan and expert member Dr Nagin Nanda. The bench was taking up the report submitted by NGT constituted UP Solid Waste Management Monitoring Committee (UPSWMMC) headed by Justice DP Singh, earlier in November 2018.
In its order, the bench said, “The UPPCB may exercise of powers inter-alia under Rule 16 of the SWM Rules, 2016, the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act,1974 and the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 and apart from other steps, determine and recover the amount of damage after following due procedure.”
It further said, “Pending such consideration, Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College, Gorakhpur may deposit interim compensation of Rs 1 Crore with the SPCB (state pollution control board).”
For KGMU it said, “we direct King George Medical University to deposit interim compensation of Rs 10 Lakhs with the UPPCB.”
In its recommendation made to the NGT, the UPSWMMC had asked for BRD medical college to be saddled with a compensatory cost of Rs 5 crores and that the “cost so recovered be reimbursed amongst the bereaved families whose children died during the past two years i.e. after the date of notification and coming into force the SWM Rules of 2016.”
The committee had recommended a penalty of Rs 10 lakh for KGMU and that it establish a sewage treatment plant (STP) and an effluent treatment plant (ETP) that was required for medical waste management within four months, that it obtain water and air consent from UPPCB.
Recommendation also included for KGMU to provide personal protective equipments (PPE) to all the staff engaged in bio-medical waste and not store untreated human anatomical waste, animal anatomical waste, soiled waste and biotechnology waste beyond forty-eight hours.
Secretary of UPSWMMC, Rajendra Singh, said, “On inspection of BRD Medical College, its incinerator was found to be dysfunctional and its waste disposal unit was entirely broken down. The waste was scattered, not segregated and dumped in the open giving out a bad odour and spreading infection.”
He added, “At KGMU too segregation of bio-medical waste and other solid waste was not done, causing harm to the health of the entire city.”
The NGT has asked the UPPCB to use the compensatory cost from both medical institutions for “restoration of environment and to help victims of diseases.” It has further asked UPPCB to conduct health impact study and furnish an action report to the tribunal within one month.
The decision by NGT was made by its principal bench headed by Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel and included members Justice SP Wangdi, Justice Ramakrishnan and expert member Dr Nagin Nanda. The bench was taking up the report submitted by NGT constituted UP Solid Waste Management Monitoring Committee (UPSWMMC) headed by Justice DP Singh, earlier in November 2018.
In its order, the bench said, “The UPPCB may exercise of powers inter-alia under Rule 16 of the SWM Rules, 2016, the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act,1974 and the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 and apart from other steps, determine and recover the amount of damage after following due procedure.”
It further said, “Pending such consideration, Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College, Gorakhpur may deposit interim compensation of Rs 1 Crore with the SPCB (state pollution control board).”
For KGMU it said, “we direct King George Medical University to deposit interim compensation of Rs 10 Lakhs with the UPPCB.”
In its recommendation made to the NGT, the UPSWMMC had asked for BRD medical college to be saddled with a compensatory cost of Rs 5 crores and that the “cost so recovered be reimbursed amongst the bereaved families whose children died during the past two years i.e. after the date of notification and coming into force the SWM Rules of 2016.”
The committee had recommended a penalty of Rs 10 lakh for KGMU and that it establish a sewage treatment plant (STP) and an effluent treatment plant (ETP) that was required for medical waste management within four months, that it obtain water and air consent from UPPCB.
Recommendation also included for KGMU to provide personal protective equipments (PPE) to all the staff engaged in bio-medical waste and not store untreated human anatomical waste, animal anatomical waste, soiled waste and biotechnology waste beyond forty-eight hours.
Secretary of UPSWMMC, Rajendra Singh, said, “On inspection of BRD Medical College, its incinerator was found to be dysfunctional and its waste disposal unit was entirely broken down. The waste was scattered, not segregated and dumped in the open giving out a bad odour and spreading infection.”
He added, “At KGMU too segregation of bio-medical waste and other solid waste was not done, causing harm to the health of the entire city.”
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