REGISTERED NO. PT.-40
EXTRA ORDINARY
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
9 MAGHA 1946(S)
(NO.PATNA 83) PATNA, WEDNESDAY, 29TH JANUARY 2025
BIHAR STATE POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
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NOTIFICATION
26th December 2024
No.- 09—Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India has
notified treated water quality standards for Common Effluent Treated Plants (CETPs) vide
Gazette Notification S.O. 3846 (E), dated-09.09.2024, under Environment (Protection) Second
Amendment Rules, 2024, which shall come into force on the 1st day of September, 2025.
As per aforesaid notification for each common effluent treated plant, the State Board or
Pollution Control Committee will specify Inlet Quality standards for general parameters,
ammonical nitrogen and heavy metals as per design, local needs and conditions of the Common
Effluent Treatment Plant.
Bihar Industrial Area Development Authority (BIADA) has a proposal for establishment
of a Common Effluent Treatment Plant for treatment of waste water generated from the proposed
tannery units at leather cluster project, Bheriadangi, Kishanganj, Bihar based on Zero Liquid
Discharge (ZLD) Concept. Project site has been notified as Leather Cluster by Industry
Department, Government of Bihar vide Notification No. 6080 dated 18.10.2023.
As per Section 17 (m) of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974, the
State Board is mandated to lay down effluent standards to be complied with by persons while
causing discharge of sewage or sullage or both and to lay down, modify or annual effluent
standards for the sewage and trade Effluents.
In view of the above facts & approval of the Board in its 119th meeting dated-20.12.2024,
Bihar State Pollution Control Board hereby specifies, Inlet Quality Standards with respect to
general and specific parameters for the proposed Common Effluent Treatment Plant at
Bheriadangi, Kishanganj as hereunder:-