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Chennai. The veterinary surgeon of th Board visits the pre-determined localities
in the city where the animal population is concentrated to treat the animals free
of charge during forenoons as per a fixed schedule.
Environmental Impact Assessment
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), is a planning tool to integrate
environmental concerns into the developmental process from the initial stage
of planning. It was first used in India as early as 1978 with river valley projects,
and was subsequently extended to large public sector projects requiring Public
Investment Board (PIB) clearance. These practices were formally codified for
the first time in the EIA Notification, 1994. This made the requirement of
environmental clearance mandatory for 37 categories of projects/ processes,
listed therein. The criterion of investment was the basis for the projects requiring
environmental clearance in different sectors.
Assistance for Abatement of Pollution
The scheme of Assistance for Abatement of Pollution was conceptualized in
1992 during the 7th Five-Year Plan with the objective, inter alia, to strengthen
the CPCB and SPCBs/PCCs for enforcing statutory provisions for pollution
abatement. The scheme is a part of a centrally sponsored umbrella scheme of
'Pollution Abatement'. The scheme of assistance for pollution abatement
comprises of sub-components to grants-in-aid-general; grants for creation of
capital assets; environment health cell (EHC) and trade and environment (PL)
including north eastern region grants-in-aid-general and north eastern region
grants for creation of capital assets. Under this Scheme the Grants are provided
to the state pollution control boards/UT pollution control committees,
environment departments of states/UTs, central/state research Institutes, and
other government agencies/organizations with the aim of strengthening their
technical capabilities.
Scheme of Common Effluent fluent Treatment Plants
A centrally sponsored scheme has been undertaken by the Government for
enabling small scale industries (SSI) to set up new and upgrade the existing
common effluent treatment plants to cover all the states in the country. The
salient features of the revised scheme include: (a) the central subsidy has been
enhanced from 25 per cent to 50 per cent of the project cost; (b) all the three
levels of treatment, primary, secondary and tertiary are to be covered for
assistance. (c) the management of the Common Effluent Treatment Plants (CETP)
is to be entrusted to a Special Purpose Vehicle registered under an appropriate
statute.
Recognition of Environmental Laboratories
Under the provisions of Section 12 of Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 the
central government recognizes environmental laboratories to carry out the
functions entrusted to an environmental laboratory. Twenty seven (27) private