The Hindu : Training in hazardous waste management

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Friday, Apr 02, 2004

Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu - Madurai

Training in hazardous waste management

By Our Staff Reporter

MADURAI, APRIL 1. The Environmental Training Institute, Chennai, has planned to conduct a training programme on hazardous waste management here on April 8.

Talking to The Hindu , R. Vijayabhaskaran, District Environmental Engineer, said that according to information received from R. K. Jayaseelan, Director, ETI, the programme would benefit the industries, especially electro-plating units.

The ETI had already conducted training needs assessment with the industries a month ago, wherein they collected the requirements of industries and developed a training module, he said.

The training programme would be conducted with technical inputs from the Small Industries Service Institute and the National Environmental Research Institute, he said, adding that it would focus on minimising wastages and also provide an insight into effective waste management.

The common effluent treatment plant at the proposed Electro Platers and Metal Finishers' Eco Industrial Park at T. Karisalkulam would operate on latest membrane technology, based on the reverse osmosis method. This plant would be used to separate waste from water, Mr. Vijayabhaskaran said.

The Electro Platers and Metal Finishers Association, Tamil Nadu, had already approached the State and Central Pollution Control Boards for subsidies in establishing the common effluent treatment plant, S. Raja, secretary, EPMFA, said.

The work on the project, estimated to cost Rs.15 crores, was going on in full swing, he said and added that the EPMFA had purchased a 22-acre land for the project.

Various banks had been approached to obtain soft loans for constructing buildings. The association was also trying to get the no-objection certificate from the State and the Centre to proceed with the project. In all probability, the project would be completed by March 2005, he said.

When the project came into being it would be a model, with all necessary infrastructure required for the industrial estate including a state-of-the-art laboratory and a training centre, said Mr. Raja.

The park would be established with the technical guidance provided by the Central Electro Chemical Research Institute, Karaikudi and foreign expertise from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (German Technical Cooperation) (GTZ) and Advisory Services in Environmental Management (ASEM), an Indo-German Environmental Programme.

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