The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) on July 02, 2024, issued a circular regarding the Exemption for the installation of Sewage treatment plants (STPs) in Health Care Establishments.
Maharashtra Pollution Control Board in its 183rd Board meeting held on June 13, 2024, has considered an exemption for the installation of Sewage treatment plants (STPs) in Health Care Establishments which are as follows:
• Healthcare Facilities with a bed capacity of up to 50 that are discharging their sewage into the public sewer which further leads to terminal Sewage treatment plants (STPs) shall be granted combined consent and BMW authorization without the necessity of installing individual STPs.
• All Health Care Facilities irrespective of the bed capacity shall install scientifically designed disinfection facilities before discharging the effluent into the sewer line or reusing in the premises as stipulated under Schedule II (6) of Biomedical Waste Management Rules, 2016.
• Also, non-bedded Healthcare Facilities (HCFs) are required to dispose of infectious liquid wastes only after treatment by disinfection as stipulated under Schedule II (6) of said Rules.
• Existing healthcare facilities with their own sewage/effluent treatment plants must continue to operate these plants to meet the standards specified in the Combined Consent and Authorization (CCA).
• This exemption is applicable to the state of Maharashtra.
[Circular No. MPCB/PSO/BMW/B-02.09]
