S.No

Description

1

It carries out the monitoring of the Water quality of all the four rivers of the State viz. Satluj, Beas, Ravi & Ghaggar through 37 monitoring stations

2

It monitors  the groundwater quality in the major industrial towns of Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Amritsar, Nangal etc.

3

It carries out the monitoring of the quality of ambient air of Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Amritsar, Patiala, Mandi Gobindgarh & Nangal through 22 permanent air monitoring stations.

4

The Board advices, guides, encourages, persuades & helps the industry in putting up effluent treatment plants and air pollution control devices to control pollution and in taking other measures to prevent or reduce pollution.

5

The Board issues NOC’s to the new units on submission of a proper scheme for pollution control and issues consent under Water & Air  Acts,  after the unit takes adequate pollution control measures. It also issues authorizations to Hazardous Waste generating units on their making proper arrangement for storage of such wastes. The Board performs its regulatory function through consent mechanism. The Board issues consents ranging from one year to fifteen years in the case of highly polluting industries and for ever, for green category industries.

6

The Board launches prosecutions against the units which do not take steps to control pollution inspite of repeated requests & warnings. It also orders closure of units when all other methods fail under the provisions of the Water Act, 1974 and the Air  Act, 1981 etc.

7

The Board makes available cost effective technologies & sets up model demonstration plants for control of pollution in small scale units such as cupola furnaces, rice shellers and induction furnaces etc. with the help of Punjab State Council for Science & Technology, Chandigarh.

8

It monitors the noise level in the cities generated due to industrial, domestic and other public activities. These studies help the Board in assessing the pollution in the state.

9

It monitors the effects on soil due to the discharge of liquid effluents on to land.