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No. 45 Poudouchéry Mardi 17 Mars 2020 (27 Phalguna 1941)
No. Puducherry Tuesday 17th March 2020
GOVERNMENT OF PUDUCHERRY
YANAM MUNICIPALITY, YANAM
No. 1459/B1/YM/2020.
Yanam, dated 11th March 2020.
NOTIFICATION
In exercise of powers conferred by sections 3, 6 and 25 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 (29 of 1986) and in supersession of the Municipal Solid Waste (Management and Handling) Rules,2000, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India, has notified the rules, namely, the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016.
2. Rule 14(h) of the aforesaid rules stipulate that, the Central Pollution Control Board shall publish guidelines for maintaining Buffer zone restricting any residential, commercial or any other construction activity within the outer boundary of the waste processing and disposal facilities for different sizes of facilities handling more than five tons per day of solid waste and accordingly the Central Pollution Control Board has issued guidelines on the provision of Buffer zone around waste processing and disposal facilities on April, 2017.
3. Rule 11 (1) of the said rules lays down that the Secretary-in-charge, Urban Development in the States and Union Territories shall notify Buffer zone for the solid waste processing and disposal facilities of more than five tons per day in consultation with the State Pollution Control Board.
PART-I ] LA GAZETTE DE L'ETAT 2324. The Puducherry Pollution Control Committee has issued vide its Order No. 3/PPCC/SWM/JSA/2020/1192, dated 30-01-2020 directing Local Administration Department to notify the Buffer zone around solid waste processing and disposal facility.
5. The Hon'ble National Green Tribunal in its judgment pronounced in Original Application No.199 of 2014 (Mr. Almitra H. Patel versus Union of India) on 22nd December, 2016 at Para 41 has issued specific directions in making decisions for site selection, establishment of the plant processing facilities and welfare of the public at large and had observed that "Keeping in view of scarcity of land, even 15 metres Buffer zone would be sufficient, provided it has rich green belt to serve the requisite purpose".
6. Hence, a Buffer zone ensuring minimum aerial distance of 15mts. earmarked along the east, west and south side periphery of the boundary of Resource Recovery Park near UKV Nagar, Yanam and flood bank Road on the north side, ensuring restricted activities and enabling long term continuous availability of disposal sites by avoiding potential conflicts between waste disposal site and adjacent lands with different users is hereby declared by this Municipality as detailed below:
Sl. Buffer zone Ward/Block/T.S. Location (Boundaries) Area No. Dimension No
(1) (2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
H.A.Ca. 1 15 Mts. D/1/10pt., Francetippa Eastern side
Revenue Village.
2 15 Mts. D/1/10pt., Francetippa Western side
Revenue Village.
1.05 3 15 Mts. D/1/10pt., Francetippa Southern side
Revenue Village.
4 Existing flood C/1, Kanakalapeta Northern side
(flood bank road)
bank road width Revenue Village. 15mts.
7. The effectiveness of the declared Buffer zone shall be reinforced by the green belt within the Solid Waste processing disposal boundaries by growing plant species recommended by Central Pollution Control Board, such as Acacia Nilotica, Delbergia Sissoo, Acacia Auriculiformis, Azadiracta Indica, Lagertoemai Speciosa, Prongamia Pinnata, etc.
G. GOWRI SAROJA, Commissioner.