Govt appoints committee to set up bio-medical waste treatment facility
Source: Heraldgoa, Date: , 2015
Even as the Goa Industrial
Development Corporation (IDC) is yet to identify 10,000 sq mtrs of land in the
industrial estates for setting up of Common Biomedical Waste Treatment Facility
(CBMWTF) to treat the medical waste in Goa, the State government has
constituted ten member Expert Committee to expedite the entire process and
supervision. The Expert Committee headed by Goa State Pollution Control Board
(GSPCB) chairman Jose Manual Noronha, is entrusted with the tasks to oversee
and monitor setting up of the facility in terms of Biomedical Waste (Management
and Handling) Rules 1998 and as per various guidelines issued by the Union
Ministry for Environment and Forest (MoEF). The Committee has to also undertake
the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) study of the facility. “IDC is directed to identify the
required land in any of the industrial estate. They are still in process,”
Noronha said. The Expert committee has to also select and finalize the
technology, capacity of the facility. On an average 180 tons of biomedical
waste is generated every month by over 30 private and government hospitals in
the State.