Decision on lifting moratorium on 3 industrial clusters soon

\ Ahmedabad, Oct 27 (PTI) Decision on lifting moratorium\on three industrial clusters in Gujarat–Vapi, Ankleshwar and\Vatva–will be taken soon with the Central Pollution Control\Board (CPCB) all set to present its final report shortly, a\top government official said today.\ \\"(Lifting of moratorium) is an important decision, and\we have been making representation (to CPCB) for that. We are\confident now, Centre will take its decision, and it will be\in our favour,\\" Additional Chief Secretary, state forests and\environment department, Arvind Agrawal told media persons.\ He said the pollution level in all three regions have\reached within environmental norms prescribed by the Centre,\and CPCB\\’s reports will be favourable for the industrial\clusters.\ \\"In all three regions–Vapi, Ankleshwar, and Vatva–we\have reached within the Centre\\’s prescribed norms. Now CPCB\will present its report, and I am hopeful of the report to be\positive,\\" Agrawal said.\ He was speaking at the curtain raiser event of the\Wastech, a pre Vibrant International Summit and Expo on\environmental sustainability to be held between December 2 and\December 4.\ Vapi, Ankleshwar and Vatva are among country\\’s critically\polluted industrial clusters on which the Centre\\’s Ministry of\Environment, Forests and Climate Change had imposed moratorium\in 2009 thereby restricting any activities of expansion of\existing industrial units or setting up on new units.\ Member Secretary of Gujarat Pollution Control Board\(GPCB) Hardik Shah told reporters at the event that the CPCB\has been monitoring the three industrial clusters since last\year.\ \\"Since last year, monitoring by CPCB was done and a\third party monitoring for compliance is also required to be\done which has possibly not been done because of which it is\stuck,\\" he said.\ \\"This time CPCB has developed a new formula regarding\this, like monitoring twice, pre-monsoon and post-monsoon\monitoring. Both are almost done now,\\" he said. PTI KA PD DK\AMS\RYS\