Distillieries - Environmental Clearance

IntroductionIn addition, these manuals would substantially ease the pressure on reviewers at thescoping stage and would bring in functional efficiency at the central and state levels.1.2 Project ImplementationThe Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF), Government of India took up the task ofdeveloping sector-specific TGMs for all the developmental activities listed in there-engineered EIA Notification. The Infrastructure Leasing and Financial ServicesEcosmart Limited (IL&FS Ecosmart), has been entrusted with the task of developingthese manuals for 27 industrial and related sectors. Distilleries are one of these sectors,for which this manual is prepared.The ability to design comprehensive EIA studies for specific industries depends on theknowledge of several interrelated topics. Therefore, it requires expert inputs frommultiple dimensions i.e., administrative, project management, technical, scientific, social,economic, risk, etc., in order to comprehensively analyze the issues of concern and todraw logical interpretations. Thus, Ecosmart has designed a well-composedimplementation framework to factor inputs of the experts and stakeholders in the processof finalization of these manuals.The process of manual preparation involved collection & collation of the secondaryavailable information, technical review by sectoral resource persons and critical reviewand finalization by a competent Expert Committee composed of core and sectoral peermembers.The MoEF appreciates the efforts of Ecosmart, Expert Core and Peer Committee,resource persons and all those who have directly and indirectly contributed to thisManual.1.3 Additional InformationThis TGM is brought out by the MoEF to provide clarity to all the stakeholders involvedin the ‘prior environmental clearance’ process. As such, the contents and clarificationsgiven in this document do not withstand in case of a conflict with the statutory provisionsof the Notifications and Executive Orders issued by the MoEF from time-to-time.TGMs are not regulatory documents. Instead, these are the tools designed to assist insuccessful completion of an EIA. For the purpose of this project, the key elementsconsidered under TGMs are: conceptual aspects of EIA; developmental activity-specificinformation; operational aspects; and roles and responsibilities of involved stakeholders.This manual is prepared considering the Notification issued on September 14, 2006 andlatest amendment as on 1 st December, 2009. For recent updates, if any, may please referthe website of the MoEF, Government of India i.e., http://moef.nic.in/index.php.TGM for Distillery Industry August 20101-4