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OFFICE MEMORANDUMSub: Conducting environmental awareness programmes by Regional Offices -reg
***For effective implementation of various Environmental Acts and Rules, creating awareness amongindustrialist, Schools children, NGOs Other Government organization !bodies and other stack holders, is amust and also one of the main activities of the Board. Conducting awareness programme on various aspects ofenvironment will create a platform to share opinion! suggestion/difficulties. Further, notification of amendment toRules and enhancement of new ActslRulesl necessitates the need of awareness.
In this connection, an action plan for environmental awareness for the year 2013-14 has been formulated whereinall the Regional Officers (except ROs of Blore city zone) will be carrying out 19 compulsory programmes(excluding Pari sara Mitra school prograwme) and target specific awareness programmes (ranging from 01 to07) depending on the predominant industrial clusters in their district. The list is enclosed as Annexure -I andAnnexure-Il respectively.
As ROs have already carried out awareness programmes upto 31.10.2013 (including deepavali festival) the. specific and compulsory programmes that they have to conduct starting from National Recycling week Nov
2013 to March.20 14 is given in Annexure-Ll & Annexure IIIA. Totally ROs have to carry out 584 compulsoryprogramme and 107 zone specific programmes from Nov 2013 to March 2014, as given in Annexure -IIIB.
Each RO shall abide with f he following guidelines while executing the awareness programme;
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1. Department of Information shall be contacted to ensure that the details of the programmes arepublished in -Iocal newspapers as news. Media shall be informed prior to the event.
2. Wide publicity shall be given so as to ensure maximum participation in the Districts.3. To involve Deputy Commissioner, CEO, ZP, District Science Centre, DDPI, DHO, DFO and other
important Depts Heads, prominent NGOs in the programmes.4. Premisesl buildings of Regional Offices, Government Depts, industrial associations, schools, colleges,
hospitals and other Institutions shall be utilised for conducting the programmes.5. Whenever technical experts are called for the programme, payment shall be made as per Board norms.6. Pamphlets, brochures, DVDs, available at Head Office shall be collected and used for the awareness
programmes7. Provisions ofKTTP Act shall be followed.8. TA bills ofROs shall be accompanied with the list ofprogrammes conducted.9. Submit the details of the programmes conducted to the respective RSEOs (including photographs)
and to Awareness Cell of Head Office before 5th of every month.10. Photographs in jpg format taken at the event, with a brief description shall be sent bye-mail to envf@
kspcb.gov.in, so as to publish the same in Parisara Vahini magazine.SANCTION ORDER
Sanction is hereby accorded for release of an amount of Rs10,0001- per programme to the RegionalOffices. Chief finance Officer shall release the amount to the Regional Offices as mentioned in AnnexureIIIB immediately. ROs shall abide by the above mentioned guidelines.
MEMBER SECRETARY
ANNEXURE-IAWARENESS PROGRAMMES PROPOSED FOR REGIONAL OFFICERS OF KSPCB
DATES PROGRAMMES
22.04.2013 World Earth Day
05.06.2013 World Environment Day
09.09.2013 Eco-friendly Ganesha Festival
16.09.2013 Ozone Layer Protection Day
02.11.2013 Eco-friendly Deepavali Festival
05.11.2013 to 11.11.2013 National Recycling Week-e-waste05.11.2013 to 11.11.2013 National Recycling Week-Plastic05.11.2013 to 11.11.2013 National Recycling Week-MSW05.11.2013 to 11.11.2013 National Recycling Week-HWM
05.11.2013 to 11.11.2013 National Recycling Week-Batteries
04.12.2013 Chemical Disaster Prevention Day
21.03.2014 World Forest Day
22.03.2014 World Water Day
Any day Cleaning of river, lake, water body
Any day Bio-medical waste management
Any day "Green" Jatha
Any day Stone crushers*
Any day Air Pollution Control
Any day Green Nurturing Prog (minimum05 industries to adopt minimum 05schools) -/
Parisara Mitra School programme is a compulsory programmeand is excluded as it is already started in 28 districts.
* Not applicable to ROs of Zone Bangalore city
Chief Environmental Officer
..ANNEXURE -II
SPECIFIC PROGRAMMES TO BE CONDUCTED FROM 1.11.2013 TO 31.3.2014REGIONAL SPECIFIC PROGRAMMES
OFFICEDavangere Sugar, Distilleries & Mandakki Battis
Chitradurga Vegetable Oil refineries
Shimoga Paper and Pulp, Foundry
Tumkur Rice Mills, Desiccated Coconut units
Mysore Pharma, sugar and distillery
Mandya Sugar, granite cutting and polishing
Chamarajanagara Granite cutting and polishing
Coorg Coffee pulping
Hassan Coffee pulping ,Granite cutting and polishing
Mangalore CRZ ,Pharma, Petro Chemicals, Preparation of Glucose by Maize
Udupi Fish processing, cashew kernel and boiled rice units
Karwar CRZ, cashew kernel and bulk storage terminal
Chikkamagalur Coffee Pulping
Bagalkot Granite cutting, Sugar
Bijapur Sugar, General Awareness in industrial Area
Belgaum-l Sugar, Distillery, Foundry
Chikkodi Sugar, Distillery
Dharwad Auto components, General Awareness in Industrial Area
Gadag Cotton ginning, General Awareness in Industrial Area
Haveri Cotton ginning, General awareness in Industrial area
Bidar Pharma
Koppal Sponge iron plants, Rice mills.Yadgir Rice mills ,'"
Bellary Sponge ircm.,plants, Rice mills, jean washing units, Mines
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ANNEXURE -II
SPECIFIC PROGRAMMES TO BE CONDUCTED FROM 1.11.2013 TO 31.3.2014REGIONAL SPECIFIC PROGRAMMES
OFFICE
Raichur Ph arm a, Rice mills, thermal power plant
Gulbarga Cement
Bangalore City- MSW segregation in apartments, complexes, and malls, STPs ,RainSouth water harvesting, Noise pollution controlBangalore City - MSW segregation in apartments, complexes, and malls, STPs, RainEast water harvesting, Noise pollution control
Bangalore City - MSW segregation in apartments, complexes, and malls, STPs ,RainWest water harvesting, Noise pollution control, ElectroplatingPeenya Electroplating, Awareness in Industrial Areas
Doddaballapura Textile Units, CETP
Nelamangala Landfillable HW and TSDF
Dasarahalli TGR catchment, STPs, electroplating
Yelahanka STPs
Anekal Granite cutting and polishing, Pharma
Bommanahalli STPs, General Awareness in Industrial Area
Rajarajeshwarinagara BWSSB, CETP, Granite cutting and polishing, general awarenessin industrial area
Sarjapura STPs, Ph arm a
Ramanagaram Granite cutting and polishing, Industrial solid waste, Silk reeling
Hoskote Granite cutting and polishing, eco-friendly awareness at BIAL
Mahadevapura STPs
Kolar Rice mills, granite cutting and polishing ,silk reeling, brick kilns,lead recyclers
Chikkaballapura Silk reeling, general awareness in industrial area.
Chief Environmental Officer