By Nayan Dave
Already marred by an unprecedented rise in raw-material and logistic prices, hundreds of Gujarat-based chemical compounds, pharmaceutical and textile processing items are carrying the extra burden of augmented fees for the therapy of effluent water.
The price of working the Frequent Effluent Remedy Crops (CETP) has gone up from 25% to a whopping 250% over the previous 3 to 4 months. Chemical items are paying effluent therapy fees two and half occasions greater in comparison with what they used to pay, says Yogesh Parikh, former president of Gujarat Dyestuff Producers’ Affiliation (GDMA).
“Earlier we needed to pay practically `15,000 plus taxes for the therapy of 25,000 litres of effluent water. Now, the identical quantity of effluent water is being handled at practically Rs 45,000 as chemical items are required to stick to extra stringent pollution-related norms,” mentioned Parikh.
Shailesh Patwari, chairman of Naroda Enviro Tasks (NEPT) mentioned aside from stringent air pollution norms, gas and enter price for treating effluent water has additionally elevated.
“Dyestuff and chemical sectors are already witnessing a slowdown in enterprise as a result of low world demand which resulted in a fall in manufacturing. Consequently, the quantity of effluent water coming to CETP has additionally been lowered. However the mounted prices stay the identical. Coal, Urea and different enter prices for therapy of effluent water have elevated by two to a few folds,” says Patwari, who can also be a former president of Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Business (GCCI).
NEPT, whose per day capability is 140 million litres of effluent water, operates the Ahmedabad-based Naroda Industrial Property’s CETP. In line with Patwari, for the previous three months, NEPT is operating at hardly 6 to 7 million per day because of the recession. Although textile processing items are comparatively higher off, their prices have additionally gone up by 25 to 30%.
Jitu Vakharia, president of South Gujarat Textile Processors Affiliation (SGTPA) says treating effluent water launched by textile processing items is easier compared to chemical items. Regardless of that, textile processors have needed to shell out as much as 30% to CETP operators up to now 5 to six months as a result of general inflation that features elevated gas and coal fees.
Hundreds of chemical compounds, pharma and textile processing items located in Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Ankleshwar, Surat and Vapi are paying greater costs as CETPs working of their respective industrial estates don’t have any different possibility however to extend the fees for treating effluent water.