HYDERABAD: Hyderabad will have a clean air authority soon on the lines of the Clean Authority of Tokyo. It will be headed by the chief secretary and include the heads of all departments.
Since his recent visit to Japan, municipal administration minister KT Rama Rao has been contemplating setting up of a similar authority for Hyderabad and even said so in the Assembly recently. A preliminary meeting to work out the modalities of the proposed authority was held at the Secretariat here on Friday. It was presided over by secretary in the department of municipal administration Navin Mittal.
Commissioner of municipal administration TK Sridevi, GHMC commissioner Janardhan Reddy, Pollution Control Board (PCB) member-secretary Satyanarayana Reddy, Warangal municipal commissioner Sruthi Ojha, Karimnagar municipal commissioner K.Shashank and other officials attended the meeting.
Mittal said that while the PCB would function as a regulatory and enforcement agency, the proposed authority would look after planning, coordination and implementation.
The PCB member-secretary briefed the officials on the Tokyo clean air authority which was set up for the management of solid waste and generation of power from waste.
The attendees felt that the proposed authority should have statutory powers and should not confine itself to air pollution but deal with noise and water pollution as well.
A committee was constituted to prepare a concept note and submit it by Feb 15. It will prepare a note on the formulation of a model Act, define the structure and jurisdiction of the proposed authority. The contributory factors of pollution, rules of solid waste management and the guidelines of the Tokyo clean air authority will also be studied for preparing the concept note.