Environmental compliance FAQ

Aaradhya Enviro is an environmental consultancy and turnkey pollution control company based in Waluj MIDC, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra. Founded in 2018, it offers 17 services — MPCB consents, Environmental Clearance, ETP/STP and ZLD plants, air pollution control, environmental testing, hazardous waste and EPR compliance, and plant operation — and has served 500+ clients.

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The office is at 10, Wadgaon Kolhati, MIDC Waluj Area, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra 431136. Site visits, sampling and installations are carried out at client locations.

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Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and its MIDC areas (Waluj, Shendra, Chikalthana), Jalna, Beed, Latur, Dharashiv, Nanded, Ahilyanagar, Nashik, Pune, Mumbai, Nagpur and the rest of Maharashtra. Projects outside Maharashtra are taken up on request.

Manufacturing units, chemical and pharmaceutical plants, sugar and food processing units, engineering and automotive suppliers, builders and housing societies, hospitals and institutions — from small units to large industrial groups.

Call or WhatsApp +91 99759 29212, email info@aaradhyaenviro.com or use the contact form. Share your industry, location, capacity, existing approvals and what you need. The first consultation is free, and a written scope and estimate follow after a site visit or document review.

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Any industry, operation or project in Maharashtra that discharges wastewater, releases air emissions or generates hazardous waste, unless it falls in the White category. This includes factories, many commercial establishments, hospitals, hotels and large building projects.

MPCB category guide

Typically: proof of land or premises, site and layout plans, a description of the manufacturing process, raw materials and products with quantities, water balance, details of effluent, emissions and waste, the proposed treatment and control systems, and proof of capital investment. Exact requirements depend on category and activity.

MPCB consent service

The consent fee depends mainly on the category of the industry and its capital investment. The applicable fee is calculated when the application is prepared.

The board can issue directions including closure and disconnection of electricity and water supply, and the Water and Air Acts also provide for penalties and prosecution. Units should apply well before starting operations and renew before expiry.

What to do if you receive a notice

Yes. Any increase in capacity, new product, process change or additional pollution source should be covered by a consent amendment before the change is implemented. Operating outside the consented scope is a violation.

KLD stands for kilolitres per day. One KLD equals 1,000 litres of wastewater per day, so a 50 KLD plant is designed to treat about 50,000 litres per day.

BOD (Biochemical Oxygen Demand) measures the oxygen bacteria need to break down organic matter; COD (Chemical Oxygen Demand) measures the oxygen needed to chemically oxidise all oxidisable matter. Both indicate how polluted wastewater is, and both are common consent parameters.

A Common Effluent Treatment Plant treats wastewater from many units in an industrial cluster. Member units usually still need primary treatment to meet the CETP's inlet norms, and the arrangement must be reflected in their consent.

With suitable tertiary treatment such as filtration and disinfection, most treated water can be reused for gardening, flushing, cooling towers or process use. RO and ZLD systems allow even higher recovery.

ETP cost guide

The frequency is set in each unit's consent order and depends on the category and process. Monitoring is carried out through accredited laboratories, and the results are kept for returns and inspections.

Testing service

The National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), notified in 2009, set limits for pollutants such as PM10, PM2.5, sulphur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide in outdoor air. Ambient air monitoring around industrial sites is compared against these standards.

OCEMS (online continuous emission and effluent monitoring systems) measure stack and effluent parameters in real time and send the data to CPCB and MPCB servers. Highly polluting industries and units directed through their consent must install it.

Online monitoring service

A TSDF (Treatment, Storage and Disposal Facility) is an authorised common facility that receives hazardous waste from industries for treatment, secure landfilling or incineration. Waste must reach it with a proper manifest.

Hazardous waste service

EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility) makes producers, importers and brand owners responsible for collecting and recycling the waste from products and packaging they put on the market. In India it applies to plastic packaging, e-waste, batteries and other streams under separate rules.

Plastic EPR service

Under the E-Waste (Management) Rules, 2022, e-waste should be handed over only to registered recyclers or refurbishers and records kept. It must not be sold to informal scrap dealers.

Commonly: hazardous waste annual return by 30 June, bio-medical waste annual report by 30 June, plastic EPR annual return by 30 June, Environmental Statement (Form V) by 30 September, EC six-monthly compliance reports on 1 June and 1 December, and consent or NOC renewal before expiry.

Form V guide

It is an annual statement filed by consent-holding units, covering water and raw material consumption, pollution generated, hazardous and solid waste and the pollution control measures taken during the previous financial year. It is due by 30 September.

Audit & reporting service

Valid consent and authorisations, treatment plant logbooks, monitoring and laboratory reports, hazardous waste records and manifests, filed returns and Environmental Statements, and correspondence with the board.

Environmental Clearance is a prior approval under the EIA Notification, 2006 for listed projects, granted by MoEFCC or SEIAA after an impact assessment. MPCB consent is the permission to establish and operate under the Water and Air Acts. Many projects need both.

Environmental Clearance service

SEIAA is the State Environment Impact Assessment Authority. In Maharashtra it grants Environmental Clearance for Category B projects, based on appraisal by the State Expert Appraisal Committee (SEAC).