Some 150 dyeing units in Faridabad have been charged with directly discharging effluents into drains without any treatment. They say if they are provided a dedicated textile park with a common treatment plant they are willing to shift. Around 25 years back the Supreme Court ordered dye industries to shift from Delhi to Faridabad. The industries were allotted a dedicated land and at that time there were no residential areas around. But in time residential areas came up near the industries and that was when the problems started.

Now the units say the textile park should be allotted to them near Faridabad because the entire business of the industries is in Delhi-NCR and that if they are forced to go further afield, their supply lines would weaken and they won’t remain competitive.

A common hazardous waste treatment, storage and disposal facility has already been set up at Pali village in Faridabad district for scientific disposal of hazardous waste generated from various industries of Haryana state.

Haryana already has a policy for shifting of potentially polluting textile or dyeing units from non-conforming areas to an approved industrial estate. A common effluent treatment plant has been set up for treating the industrial effluents generated from these textile or dyeing units.