Summary:
Narmada Clean Tech, a body under Gujarat Industries Development Corporation (GIDC) is operating the effluent treatment plant (Final Effluent Treatment Plant – FETP) for units in Ankleshwar and nearby Panoli region. Investments worth Rs15,000 crore to expand capacities are lying in waste because of bottlenecks in the treatment of industrial effluents, they said. "While FETP treatment will cost about Rs100 per kilolitre of effluent, MEE costs Rs3,000-5,000. Industrial expansion in and around Ankleshwar has come to a standstill because the local effluent treatment body has not upgraded its capacity, industrial units in Ankleshwar complained to Chief Minister Vijay Rupani recently. However, the capacity to treat effluents did not rise correspondingly, limiting the rise in production," Mahesh Patel, president of Ankleshwar Industries Association (AIA) said..