Guidelines for Continuous Emission Monitoring Systems

In order to track release of pollutants through air emissions and effluent discharge from industries with high pollution potential, Central Pollution Control Board issued directions under section 18(1) b of the Water and Air Acts to the State Pollution Control Boards and Pollution Control Committees for directing the 17 categories of highly polluting industries (such as Pulp & Paper, Distillery, Sugar, Tanneries, Power Plants, Iron & Steel, Cement, Oil Refineries, Fertilizer, Chloral Alkali Plants, Dye & Dye Intermediate Units, Pesticides, Zinc, Copper, Aluminum, Petrochemicals and Pharma Sector, etc.,), Common Effluent Treatment Plants (CETP),Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs), Common Bio Medical Waste and Common Hazardous Waste Incinerators; for installation of online effluent quality and emission monitoring systems.