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Zoning Atlas

Environmental Planning is a useful tool for reducing the adverse impact on environment through proper sitting of industries. Proper sitting of newly planned industries and industrial estates is a strong pollution preventive instrument that ensures environmental soundness of the industrial development. It is the site that ultimately determines which water bodies might be affected by effluent discharge by an industry, which air shed might be affected by air pollutants or which eco-systems might be harmed. Site selection based on environmental criteria with the objective of minimizing adverse environmental impacts is, therefore, a vital prerequisite.

Owing to multiplicity and complexity of variables involved, environmental planning in its totality in a vast country like India is not an easy task. As there is a need to properly site industries to reduce the risks of pollution and to protect the environment, and there is also a need to simplify and support decision making process on site clearance for locating an industry, the task of preparation of Zoning Atlas for sitting of industries, based on environmental considerations, has been taken up district-wise. In the Atlas the environmental parameters and conditions are evaluated and quantified and the suitability of sites is determined based on their sensitivity to air, water and land pollution.

The Zoning Atlas for sitting of industries, zones and classifies the environment in a district and presents the pollution receiving potential of various sites/zones in the District and the possible alternate sites for industries through easy-to-read maps.

• Objectives

• Methodology

• Major Activities

OBJECTIVES

The objectives of preparing a Zoning Atlas for siting of industries are: 

• To Zone and classify the environment in a District;

• To identify locations for siting of industries; and

• To identify industries suitable to the identified sites.

The Zoning Atlas, in addition to streamlining the decision-making process has several benefits, some of which are briefed below: 

• Provides a ready-reckoner for best suitable site relevant environmental information;

• Makes decision-making process simpler, faster, realistic, transparent and reliable;

• Provides a basis for incorporating environmental aspects into physical (land use) planning process presently lacking in the country;

• Helps in planning cost-effective pollution control measures and programmes;

• Helps an entrepreneur in readily finding out the location best suited to site an industry thereby saving time, efforts, investment and risk instead of heading for an unknown site, conducting environmental impacts assessment and awaiting clearance by the regulatory authorities;

• Helps develop infrastructure facilities, such as roads, water supply, electricity etc. and provide common waste treatment and disposal facilities.

• Helps check additional pollution in the areas already over-stressed with pollution;

• Ensures that pollution potential of an industry is made compatible with the local conditions of the site;

• Ensures that an industry, with high pollution potential desiring to locate in a high risk area, will have to adopt clean technologies for manufacturing process so as to prevent generation of wastes/pollution thereby making it compatible with the receiving environment;

• Helps in increasing awareness of the public on type of industries and nature of pollution anticipated in their neighborhood well in advance; and

• Helps achieve sustainable development

METHODOLOGY

 The procedure for preparing Zoning Atlas for a District is broadly categories into six steps, as given below:

Step I:  Preparation of the base map of the District.

Step II: Preparation of theme maps which show the physical features of the District (land use map, drainage, physiographic, land capability etc.);

Step III: Identification of areas showing ‘Sensitive Zones’ which are unsuitable for industrial sitting from environmental considerations/ guidelines, legal restrictions and physical constraints;

Step IV: Preparation of theme maps pertaining to air pollution sensitivity, surface water pollution sensitivity and ground water pollution sensitivity;

Step V:  Preparation of ‘pollution sensitivity’ maps based on overlay of theme maps and identification of:

a) Possible alternate sites for location of industries based on the sensitivity of the sites to air and water pollution and the risks associated with industrial sitting; and

b) Possible solid waste disposal sites based on the sensitivity to ground water pollution.

Step VI: Listing of the categories of industry suitable to various sites identified and recommending guidelines for siting of industries and the site clearance procedures.         

MAJOR ACTIVITIES

 The major activities, involved in preparation of the Zoning Atlas are:

• Collection of data, maps and information from secondary sources;

• Preparation of base map and various theme maps;

• Survey of the District and monitoring of ambient air quality, surface water and ground water quality and preparation of related thematic maps;

• Digitization of the maps;

• Preparation of the draft and final report;

• Reviewing the report, maps and recommendation by CPCB;

• Review of the report, map and recommendation by the State Departments, interaction meet with industrial associations, NGO’s and local public; and

• Preparation of the final report. 

Zoning Atlas Reports for Raipur and Bilaspur District is being prepared with the consultation of Central Pollution Control Board.

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