The Common Effluent Treatment Plant

The Common Effluent Treatment Plant at Patancheru receives around 5000 tankers of industrial pollutants per month. From this total around 3500 trucks come from seven industries that include Aurobindo Pharma, Neuland Laboratories, Dr Reddy’s Labs and others. All in all, ninety industries send their effluents to the Common Effluent Treatment Plant in Patancheru

The Supreme Court in the last thirteen years has passed many orders and highlighted the failures of the CETP. But the problem still remains unchanged. It is time now all of us understood that CETP’s are essentially flawed. This is because the assumption that all industries will generate wastes that have the same chemical composition is inherently wrong. Further, the processes used in such plants only convert the liquid waste into a solid form, but they do not change their inherent toxicity. The effluents discharged by the CETP are highly toxic and create life threatening pollution problems rather than solve them.