Amid concerns about trade effluent discharged into the Tapi estuary in Surat district from its steel plants at Hazira causing pollution beyond permissible limits, Arcelor-Mittal Nippon Steel India Ltd (AM/NS) has announced a Rs 273 crore investment for zero liquid discharge.
Recently, the Gujarat High Court (HC) had appointed the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IIT-Gn) as a court commissioner to find out if trade effluent discharged from AM/NS was causing pollution beyond permissible limits or not. The court had acted upon a public interest litigation filed by Surat-based environmental engineer Roshni Patel, who had alleged that the steel