{"id":131006,"date":"2010-04-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/gujarat-vs-state-on-22-april-2010"},"modified":"2019-04-02T05:16:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T23:46:26","slug":"gujarat-vs-state-on-22-april-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/gujarat-vs-state-on-22-april-2010","title":{"rendered":"Gujarat vs State on 22 April, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"
Gujarat High Court<\/div>\n
Gujarat vs State on 22 April, 2010<\/div>\n
Author: Mr.S.J.Mukhopadhaya,&Nbsp;Honourable Mr.Justice Kureshi,&Nbsp;<\/div>\n
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(Per
\n: HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE AKIL KURESHI)<\/p>\n
This
\n\tpetition is filed by Gujarat Dyestuff Manufacturers Association
\n\t(here-in-after referred to as  the petitioner Association ).
\n\tFollowing prayers have been made in the petition :\n<\/p>\n
 A.\n<\/p>\n
\t\tYour Lordships be pleased to issue a writ or in the nature of
\n\tmandamus directing the respondents to withdraw the Environmental
\n\tAudit Scheme for Industries Manufacturing Specified Products on such
\n\tterms and conditions as deemed just and proper by the Court.\n<\/p>\n
B.\tPending
\n\tadmission, hearing and final disposal of this petition, your
\n\tLordships be pleased to stay and suspend the operation and
\n\timplementation of Environmental Audit Scheme for Industries
\n\tManufacturing Specified Products Scheme on such terms and conditions
\n\tas deemed just and proper by this Court.\n<\/p>\n
C.\tEx-parte
\n\tad interim relief in terms of prayer B above be granted.\n<\/p>\n
D.\tSuch
\n\tother and further reliefs as may be deemed just and proper in the
\n\tfacts and circumstances of the present case may kindly be granted.\n<\/p>\n
Briefly
\n\tstated, facts of the case are that petitioner no.1 is a registered
\n\tAssociation of Dyestuff Manufacturers in the State of Gujarat. In
\n\tthe late 80s and early 90s, large number of petitions were filed
\n\tbefore the High Court alleging rampant pollution being caused by
\n\tvarious industries in the State of Gujarat. Many of these industries
\n\twere concentrated in and around the city of Ahmedabad. In different
\n\tlitigations, series of orders were passed by different Benches of
\n\tthis Court directing corrective measures to be taken by the
\n\tIndustries as well as by Gujarat Pollution Control Board(GPCB for
\n\tshort). One such litigation involved was Special Civil Application
\n\tNo. 770\/1995 and connected matters. Division Bench of this Court by
\n\ta detailed judgement dated 20.12.1996 considered various aspects of
\n\tpolluting industries and its impact on the environment and the
\n\tnatural resources. The Bench was of the opinion that the industries
\n\tcould not be allowed to use up the capital provided by the nature.
\n\tIn this regard the Bench made following observations :\n<\/p>\n
 To
\nwhat extent industries should  be  allowed  to use  up capital
\nprovided by the nature and at what cost, are larger questions which
\nrequire  indepth  study  but  which  need  not detain us for the
\npresent, since we are  proceeding on the principle laid down  in  the
\n case  of      Pravindbhai  (supra)  and  in the case of Indian
\nCouncil  for Enviro-Legal Action 1996 (5) SCC 281  (para31)  that
\nbalance   between   industrialization   and  ecology  is required to
\nbe maintained.  Nevertheless, the manner  in which  the  capital
\nprovided  by  the nature is used or  abused does warrant closer
\nscrutiny  at  the  hands  of       qualified professionals.\n<\/p>\n
2.1\t\tThe
\n\tBench eventually envisaged an  environment audit scheme . Bench
\n\tprovided broad contours of the scheme as follows :\n<\/p>\n
 …that
\n\t the  scheme  is  in  addition  to  and not in derogation of the
\n\tpowers of the statutory authorities and also  that  individual
\n\tindustrial  units,  cluster  of industrial units and class of
\n\tindustries are still subject to monitoring,which can be carried out
\n\tby  GPCB,  Association  of  Industries,  or  monitoring committees
\n\tappointed by  them and\/or by the coordinating committee\/s, if any,
\n\tappointed by this court.   Although  the scheme  is  applicable,  by
\n\t virtue  of this order, in the first instance to industries in and
\n\taround  Ahmedabad,  we see no reason why the scheme should also not
\n\tbe made applicable to the industries manufacturing specified items
\n\tin all other parts of Gujarat.\n<\/p>\n
2.2\tEventually
\n\tthe proceedings came to be disposed of by issuing following
\n\tdirections :\n<\/p>\n
 21.  The   State   Government   and  GPCB    are   \ndirected\n        (a)    to  publish  the  said  Scheme in two English and\n<\/pre>\n
              Gujarati daily newspapers having wide circulation
\n              in Gujarat for information of  all  concerned  by
\n              January  10,  1997 and to invite applications for
\n              being recognized as “Environmental  Auditors”  by
\n              February  10,  1997  and  to  prepare the list of
\n              Recognized Environmental  Auditors  as  early  as
\n              possible and latest by February 28, 1997.\n<\/p>\n
       (b)    to  prepare  by  February 15, 1997, the format of
\n              the Environmental  Audit  Reports  including  the
\n              proforma  statement  to be prepared by the Labour
\n              Commissioner and the Chief Inspector of Factories
\n              in consultation with the  National  Institute  of
\n              Department of Health.\n<\/p>\n
       (c)    to implement the Environmental Audit Scheme which
\n              is annexed to this order and to report compliance
\n              to this Court from time to time.\n<\/p>\n
       (d)    to  formulate  plans for monitoring of industries
\n              as per, inter alia, discussion  in  paragraphs  9
\n              and 16 of this order.\n<\/p>\n
       (e)    to  consider  the  Scheme  for providing positive
\n              incentives for setting up units using by-products
\n              like   spent   acids   as    raw-materials    for
\n              manufacturing  other  products  as  discussed  in
\n              paragraph 16 of this order.\n<\/p>\n
       22.\t   Associations  of  Industries  in  Vatva,  Naroda,
\n       Odhav  and  Gujarat  Vyapari Maha Mandal Estate at Odhav
\n       are directed to fix the norms  for  receiving  effluents
\n       from  individual  units  [not having secondary treatment
\n       plants] into  respective  CETPs.      The   instructions
\n       containing  such norms shall be issued to the members of
\n       CETPs by February 15, 1997, and shall be produced on the
\n       record of these proceedings on the next date of hearing.
\n       A copy of this order shall be sent to NEERI, Nagpur  and
\n       to ATIRA.    The  Registry  shall  immediately send this
\n       order to Government and to GPCB.\n<\/p>\n
It
\n\tis not in dispute that pursuant to such directions a formal scheme
\n\thas been formulated by GPCB. Petitioners have been filing necessary
\n\tenvironment audit reports periodically. In the present petition, it
\n\tis however the case of the petitioner that adherence to the said
\n\trequirement of submitting periodical environment audit reports is no
\n\tlonger relevant. It is the case of the petitioners that no useful
\n\tpurpose is being served by filing such reports. Scheme was farmed at
\n\tthe time when industrial pollution was at its peak. Now that much of
\n\tthe polluting industries are brought under control, members of the
\n\tpetitioner Association who are small scale industries, should not be
\n\tany longer burdened with heavy cost of providing environmental audit
\n\tevery year. It is on this premise that present petition is filed
\n\twith above-noted prayers.\n<\/p>\n
Replies
\n\thave been filed on behalf of GPCB contesting the petition and
\n\tinsisting that such scheme has been successful in various ways for
\n\tcontrolling the pollution.\n<\/p>\n
On
\n\tbehalf of the petitioner, learned counsel Shri Vimal Patel submitted
\n\tthat members of the petitioner No.1 Association are small scale
\n\tindustries. They cannot afford heavy cost of providing environmental
\n\taudit every year. In any case, it is no longer necessary to have
\n\tsuch close monitoring. It is further contended that GPCB had not put
\n\tthe said data to any effective use till the year 2007.  Entire
\n\teffort and expenditure in collecting such data therefore, had
\n\tfailed.\n<\/p>\n
On
\n\tthe other hand on behalf of GPCB, learned counsel Shri Tushar Mehta
\n\tappearing for Ms. Amee Yagnik opposed the petition contending
\n\tinter-alia that the data collected through such environment audit
\n\treport forms are useful basis for taking corrective measures. GPCB
\n\thas been taking all necessary steps and would continue to do so in
\n\tfuture also.\n<\/p>\n
Having
\n\tthus heard learned advocates for the parties, first and foremost, we
\n\tfind that directions for Environmental Audit Scheme were given by
\n\tDivision Bench of this Court by decision dated 20.12.1996 in Special
\n\tCivil Application No.770\/1995.  It is pursuant to such directions
\n\tthat petitioners are required to abide by the terms of  the scheme
\n\twhich in turn required filing periodical environmental audit
\n\treports. Granting prayers made in the petition would amount to
\n\tmodifying or recalling said decision of the Division Bench. No case
\n\tfor adopting such a course has been made out. Further, we find that
\n\tthere is nothing before us to suggest that the close monitoring of
\n\tpollutant industries is no longer necessary. It is not unknown that
\n\theavy pollution caused through industries particularly engaged in
\n\thazardous substances leave permanent damage on environment, plants,
\n\tanimals and human beings inhabiting in the region. There is no data
\n\tplaced before us to suggest that since the Division Bench passed
\n\tsaid decision on 20.12.1996, industries in general have cultivated
\n\tmaturity and self restrain as on its own volition not to cause any
\n\tserious pollution nor has it been demonstrated that GPCB on its part
\n\tinvariably in all cases performed its statutory functions. Measures
\n\tprovided by the Bench in the said decision therefore, cannot be
\n\twithdrawn or diluted.\n<\/p>\n
Contention
\n\tof the petitioners that GPCB has not utilized the data effectively
\n\tcan hardly be a ground to recall the entire scheme. Firstly, if GPCB
\n\thas been inactive and not taken full advantage of the data collected
\n\tthrough such environmental audit,  it would be a case for directing
\n\tGPCB to take more proactive interest. It would certainly not be a
\n\tcase for recalling the directions. Secondly, we also find that as
\n\tstated in the affidavit dated 24.2.2010 filed by Shri J.K. Vyas,
\n\tEnvironment Engineer, GPCB, at-least from the year 2007 onwards
\n\tseries of proceedings have been initiated against erring industries
\n\ton the basis of data supplied. Such figures are given in tabular
\n\tform in the affidavit which reads as follows :\n<\/p>\n
Year<\/p>\n
Under
\n\t\t\t\tSection 33(A) of the Water Act <\/p>\n
Under
\n\t\t\t\tSection 31(A) of the Air Act, 1981<\/p>\n
Under
\n\t\t\t\tSection 5 of the E.P. Act, 1986<\/p>\n
Notices<\/p>\n
Directions<\/p>\n
Notices<\/p>\n
Directions<\/p>\n
Notices<\/p>\n
Directions<\/p>\n
2007<\/span><\/p>\n
794<\/span><\/p>\n
327<\/span><\/p>\n
764<\/span><\/p>\n
69<\/span><\/p>\n
24<\/span><\/p>\n
37<\/span><\/p>\n
2008<\/span><\/p>\n
631<\/span><\/p>\n
637<\/span><\/p>\n
436<\/span><\/p>\n
59<\/span><\/p>\n
10<\/span><\/p>\n
13<\/span><\/p>\n
Upto
\n\t\t\t\tNov.2009<\/p>\n
588<\/span><\/p>\n
244<\/span><\/p>\n
627<\/span><\/p>\n
85<\/span><\/p>\n
07<\/span><\/p>\n
09<\/span><\/p>\n
Additionally,
\n\twe also notice that National Environmental Engineering Research
\n\tInstitute (NEERI for short) has this to say about the scheme :\n<\/p>\n
 In
\n\tGujarat State, the GPCB implemented Environmental Audit Scheme as
\n\tper the orders of the Hon’ble High Court of Gujarat in 1996. Based
\n\ton the evaluation of the environmental audit formats prepared under
\n\tthe Environment Audit Scheme, modifications have been suggested to
\n\tmeet the objectives of the environmental audit of industries. In
\n\taddition, new formats have been recommended which include,<\/p>\n
Proforma
\n\tfor intimation to conduct an environmental audit of an activity.\n<\/p>\n
Certificate
\n\tby an auditor for the analysis of sample parameters.\n<\/p>\n
Additional
\n\tinformation on improvement in effluent\/emission quality based on
\n\tperformance of effluent\/emission management system is also
\n\trecommended for achieving progress towards cleaner production
\n\tactivities including retrofitting and proper maintenance of the
\n\tsystem thereby attaining the desired objective of the audit scheme.
\n\tIdentifying major hurdles faced during the operation of
\n\teffluent\/emission management systems and remedial measures taken
\n\tthereof are included in the scheme. Altogether, the scheme has
\n\tstrengthened the environmental management and pollution control in
\n\tthe industrial sector of the Gujarat State.\n<\/p>\n
The
\n\tnecessity of environmental audit is to make the industry realize the
\n\timpact of its activity and ensure mitigation of the impacts on
\n\tenvironment. Hence, environmental auditing for the industries needs
\n\tto be continued in the interest of environmental protection and
\n\tsociety at large, thereby attaining sustainable development. The
\n\tscheme should not only be restricted to the State of Gujarat but can
\n\talso be adopted by other states across the country to acquire the
\n\tbenefit of the scheme for compliance with environmental laws and
\n\tmeeting the environmental challenges. Thus benefits gained through
\n\timplementation of this scheme can be taken advantage of, for
\n\tsustainable development in the country.\n<\/p>\n
In
\n\tthe result, no case for granting prayers is made out. GPCB is
\n\thowever directed to take all necessary follow up steps on the basis
\n\tof audit reports to control environmental pollution. This of-course
\n\twould be in addition to its ordinary function and duties flowing
\n\tfrom statutory powers and responsibilities. GPCB shall also ensure
\n\tthat the data collected through such audit reports does not collect
\n\tdust in the archives of its office but is put to meaningful use for
\n\tunderstanding the environmental impact for which main purpose scheme
\n\twas envisaged by this Court.\n<\/p>\n
The
\n\tpetition is disposed of accordingly. Rule is discharged.\n<\/p>\n
(S.J.\n<\/p>\n
Mukhopadhaya,C.J.)<\/p>\n
(Akil
\nKureshi,J.)<\/p>\n
(raghu)<\/p>\n
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