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Ahmedabad, january 2024
Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel announced a policy in January 2024 to take back unused open plots in various GIDCs of the state and reuse them by setting up industries. The amount to the maximum extent of 75 per cent of the difference between the reimbursement allotment value of lease in GIDC and the existing allotment value in GIDC will be refunded to the plot holder. 1800 hectares of land is lying vacant in 500 GIDCs. Where industries are not established. Now land will be confiscated to set up industries there. But the Chief Minister did not say anywhere that chemical factories like bombs should not be kept on such land. Because there are chemical bomb factories in the Golden Corridor from Ahmedabad to Vapi in Gujarat. The Chief Minister asked to confiscate the vacant land of GIDC, but did not ask to vacate 600 factories like chemical bombs.
beginning
As of 31 March 1979, there were 1,098 established industrial estates in India, of which 926 were operational, while 72 were inactive. Yes. eye. D. C completed 25 years of his career in 1986–87. During these 25 years he established 171 settlements and completed the construction of 10,557 sheds. Of these, 9,351 sheds were allotted to industrial enterprises. During 1986-87, there were 3,500 industrial enterprises operating in GIDC colonies. Of the 1,098 colonies established by 1979, 633 colonies were established in urban areas, 296 colonies in semi-urban areas and 169 colonies in rural areas.
barren land
Kutch has 13 industrial estates and 3 industrial parks at Mundra, Gandhidham and Samakhiyali respectively. There is a special economic zone. SEZ is a growth engine. There are 12 special economic zones operating in the district. Due to industries, 46 thousand hectares of land has remained barren. 5.34 lakh hectares of land is barren, yet no industries are set up there.
chemicals
Gujarat is considered the center of chemical industry. However, reports of tragedies in Gujarat’s chemical factories keep coming.
According to the Director of the Department of Industrial Safety and Health, Ministry of Labor and Employment, Government of Gujarat, Gujarat alone accounts for more than half of the total factories at risk of major accidents in the entire country. The total number of major accident prone factories in the country is 1,435 while Gujarat has 570 such factories.
Gujarat
There are about 900 such major accident-prone factories in Gujarat and Maharashtra together. Even if the factories of this category in all other states are added together, it is not even half of the factories in these two states.
In the year 2020, there was an explosion in Dahej Industrial Estate in Bharuch district of Gujarat.
The top three districts with major accident risk (MAH) factories in Gujarat are Bharuch, Vadodara and Morbi. There are 98 such factories in Bharuch, 82 in Vadodara and 61 in Morbi, 56 in Kutch, 53 in Ahmedabad, 43 in Valsad, 34 in Surat, 31 in Gandhinagar, 24 in Rajkot, 15 in Kheda and 13 in Mehsana. There is one such factory each in Banaskantha, Gir Somnath, Patan, Porbandar, Tapi, Surendranagar and Junagadh districts.
According to the director of the Industrial Safety and Health Department of the Gujarat government, a total of 2,571 industrial units are registered in Bharuch and 4,115 in Vadodara. Ahmedabad has the highest number of registered factories at 9,829.
Every year around 200 innocent people lose their lives in fire accidents in industrial units in Gujarat. From 2014 to 2018, a total of 1150 people have lost their lives in fatal accidents including fires in industrial units in the state.
next gujarat
Out of 35,887 industries in Gujarat, 2401 industries have automatically closed. While 4605 industries violate environmental rules. Gujarat leads the entire country in generating hazardous waste. Rajya Sabha includes 10 cities of Gujarat among the total 389 polluted cities of the country. Four cities of Gujarat are included in the top 100 polluted cities of the country.
factory
Out of 40 thousand factories, 5000 are chemical factories. Of these, 402 chemical factories are of dangerous type which can cause a tragedy like Bhopal. Chemical factories like 402 to 504 in Bhopal, Gujarat are very dangerous.
factory of death
According to Gujarat government data, a total of 212 workers lost their lives in accidents in factories in Gujarat in the year 2020. In which maximum 79 workers were from chemical and chemical product factories. Whereas 43 workers lost their lives in accidents in the textile industry. 40 workers died in accidents at metal and mineral factories, while 14 workers died in accidents at paper mills. Most industrial accidents occurred in Surat. According to the data of the Ministry of Labor and Employment of Gujarat Government, a total of 167 incidents of accidents were reported in factories in the year 2020. In the year 2020, Surat had the highest number of 28 accidents, followed by Bharuch and Morbi with 22 accidents each. 21 accidents were recorded in Ahmedabad and 10 in Kutch and Rajkot.
Industrial Accidents: 236 accidents were recorded in the year 2018, while 188 accidents were recorded in the year 2019.
Bharuch and Vadodara fall in the ‘AA’ category, the most serious of four levels of chemical and industrial hazards.
130 blasts in the country in 10 years
In the last decade alone, 130 chemical accidents were recorded in India, resulting in a total of 259 deaths and 563 serious injuries. Poisonous gas was used in the Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984.
Thousands of people died due to methyl isocyanate.
This disaster is considered to be the world’s worst disaster in the chemical industry. Gujarat is considered the center of chemical industry. There are frequent incidents of explosions or fires in chemical factories in the state.
Dangerous
Ahmedabad, Jamnagar, Kutch, Rajkot, Surat and Valsad are included in the risk ‘A’ category.
The low-risk ‘B’ category includes Anand, Bhavnagar, Gandhinagar, Kheda, Mehsana, Panchmahal and Porbandar.
The last category ‘C’ which is very low risk includes Amreli, Banaskantha, Dahod, Dangs, Junagadh, Narmada, Navsari, Patan, Sabarkantha and Surendranagar.
death throes
Six people died in an explosion in the factory of Gujarat ‘Fluoro Chemicals Limited’ in Ghoghamba, Panchmahal, Gujarat, which is considered an industrial centre. He was born in Ranjitnagar village in the factory of GFL, a fluorospecialty and refrigerant manufacturing company.
In November 2021, a massive fire broke out in the ‘Rani Sati’ mill located in Pandesara GIDC, Surat.
In October 2021, a massive fire broke out at ‘Viva Packaging Mill’ in Kadodara GIDC, Surat. Two people lost their lives in that fire. More than 100 people were saved from that fire. The trapped people had to jump from the third-fourth floor to save their lives.
421 deaths
According to assembly records, as of December 2020, 421 workers have died in Gujarat in the last two years. Bharuch district, which has a large number of chemical industry units, tops the list with 68 deaths, followed by 67 in Surat, 61 in Ahmedabad, 55 in Morbi, 38 in Valsad, 29 in Kutch and one factory each in Vadodara and Rajkot. There were 18 deaths. , 288 criminal cases were registered.
In the two years of 2019 and 2020, 15 workers died and 12 were injured in 26 incidents of fire inside factories in Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar districts.
Bharuch blast: Eight killed, 52 injured, 4800 displaced.
pollution in ahmedabad
Vatva is ranked 44th in the country, Ahmedabad 84th, Ankleshwar 87th, Rajkot 94th, Jamnagar 100th, Vapi 107th, Vadodara 115th, Surat 144th, Gandhinagar 211th and Nandesari 235th. Sonipat of Haryana is the most polluted city in the country.
A world heritage city has become a city of fire. The way massive fires are breaking out in industrial units.
When the fire broke out in Vatva factory, there was ethylene oxide in the factory. If it catches fire, the entire area will suffer huge damage. Some industries contain ethylene oxide, hydrogen, hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, sulfuric acid and all kinds of solvents and flammable chemicals. Dower or other place from which the residential area should be away. There are such factories in Vatva, Naroda, Sanand, Odhav, Kathlal.
Factories and companies processing poisonous-dangerous chemicals are flourishing in the industrial areas including Vatva, Narol, Peepalj of Ahmedabad city. These companies are illegally storing Ethylene Oxide-Methyl Isocyanite, which can pose a threat to the entire area in case of fire, but due to the connivance of corrupt officials of Gujarat Pollution Control Board, the chemical mafia has become cruel.
more than
Spread over 527 hectares, Vatva Industrial Estate in Ahmedabad is the first built industrial estate in Gujarat. There are approximately 2500 industrial units in this estate. Vatva Industrial Estate is also one of the leading chemical industry units in the country. Ever since this estate was built in 1968, no major tragedy has happened here.
Owners of industries are punished up to jail.
Illegal chemical factories are flourishing in the industrial area of Barkot East under the supervision of the police, GPCB and Health and Property Department of the Municipal Corporation. There have been many incidents of gas leakage in many areas including Vatva GID and Narol. The activity of dumping toxic chemicals into the canal through such illegal factories is also flourishing. Hence the citizens living in Vatva, Vatva GIDC area have to suffer from diseases including skin and eye irritation.
12 deaths
An explosion occurred during chemical processing at the illegal Shahil Chemical Factory located in Rewaka Estate on Pirana-Pipalaj Road, Ahmedabad. The walls and roofs of the textile factory collapsed like a deck of cards. 12 laborers including 5 women and 7 men died tragically on the spot. 10 people were seriously injured.
Panchmahal blast
On December 16, 2021, three people were killed and fifteen were injured in an explosion at Gujarat Fluoro Chemical Company located in Ranjitnagar, Ghoghamba taluka of Panchmahal district. There were more than 300 people in the company. The sound of the explosion was heard several kilometers away.
According to the details given on the Gujarat Fluoro Chemicals website of GFL Company, the company has plants at three locations. Ghoghamba’s Ranjitnagar plant manufactures fluorospecialties and refrigerants. Fluorospecialty’s products are used in the pharma and agrochemical industries.
The company’s fluorospecialty chemicals include ethyl difluoroacetate, ethyl 1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethyl ether and 2,6-dichloro-4-trifluoromethyl aniline (used in pesticides), difluoromethane sulfonyl chloride, bromotrifluoromethane, 2-4-difluorophenylamine, 1, 3 included. Forms difluorobenzene and triethyl orthoformate.
Most of these chemicals are used in pharmaceutical and pesticide intermediates. Refrigerants include R22, R32, R125, R134a, R407c and R410a.
Are available. Refrigerant is used in pharmaceutical, air conditioning and cold warehouse.
secrecy
Which industry makes what and with what method?
Aave does not disclose because it is its ‘trade secret’. But these two departments, Collector’s Office and Pollution Control Board, have all the information. Factories will have to submit process charts to the Pollution Control Board-GPCB. It contains details of which chemical is to be used when and in which process. If they import any chemical secretly or use it in some corner, they will be punished. Thus GPCB has all the information about hazardous chemicals. The Collector’s office has all the information about what chemical the factory is making in what quantity and what equipment should be available in case of emergency. The factory inspector is directly responsible for this. The factory inspector has to visit the factory at regular intervals.
Bhopal Gas
Just like 35 thousand people died due to poisonous gas in Bhopal, what can happen if the same happens in Gujarat? However, Gandhinagar’s pollution control office is unsure about this.
In the Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984, thousands of people died due to the poisonous gas methyl isocyanate. According to the National Disaster Management Authority, a total of 1861 large units are registered under the Major Accident Hazard (MAH) category in India.
On 14 November 2014, thousands of people protested against the cyanide company in an environmental referendum in Allpad.
Existing laws in the country in the field of chemical disaster management include the Explosives Act 1884, Petroleum Act 1934, Factories Act 1948, Pesticides Act 1968, Environment Protection Act 1986, Motor Vehicles Act 1988, Public Liability Insurance Act 1991 and Disaster Management Act 2005.
Human Settlement
In 1995, the High Court had clearly said that housing should be allowed within a distance of 500 meters from GIDC. We have repeatedly brought this matter to the notice of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation and Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority (AUDA), but they are violating and residential buildings have been built right next to the industries. The municipality has violated industrial policy and court orders. First of all, hazardous chemical industries should be removed from residential areas. So that if there is any accident like blast, the surrounding population is not affected.
Earlier GIDC was 20-22 km away from Ahmedabad. Then as the population increased in the city, the corporation approved plans for residential buildings next to industries to populate it.
The chemical industry factory in Ranjitnagar is far away from the residential area, so it did not make any difference. Gujarat Pollution Control Board should move hazardous chemical factories away from the population.
The health system in Modpar village near Morbi collapsed and pollution led to the epidemic.
More than 40 people were affected by ammonia gas leak in the residential area of Bilimora, the area around the factory was evacuated.
While there is no duty to enforce the law under the Office of the Director of Industrial Safety and Health.
A report by Himmat Kataria in BBC Gujarati was published on 18 December 2021 on how Gujarat, considered the ‘hub of the chemical industry’, is at great risk from industrial accidents.
sodium cyanide
Sodium cyanide is a highly toxic chemical. Interferes with the body’s ability to use oxygen. Sodium cyanide can quickly become fatal. It affects the organ systems most sensitive to oxygen levels: the nervous system (brain), cardiovascular system (heart and blood vessels), and pulmonary system (lungs). Sodium cyanide is used commercially for fumigation, electroplating, extracting gold and silver from ores. Hydrogen cyanide gas has a bitter smell. People can’t find it. Sodium cyanide is odorless. Therefore it is considered even more dangerous.
potassium cyanide
Many famous people have used potassium cyanide to commit suicide. Stops breathing. Prevents the body from oxidizing food to produce usable energy. Lactic acidosis results from anaerobic metabolism. Initially, victims of acute cyanide poisoning become red or scaly. Tissues cannot use the oxygen in the blood. A person loses consciousness, the brain stops working. The lethal dose of potassium cyanide is 200–300 mg. LTT, which assassinated Rajiv Gandhi, also used it. It is easy to use to kill.
lead acid
Gujarat ranks third in the country in recycling of used lead acid batteries and lead waste. There are 672 units for recycling used lead acid batteries and lead waste in the country. Which recycles 35,30,842 million metric tons annually. Gujarat ranks third in the country with 41 units recycling 3,81,210 million metric tonnes. Tamil Nadu ranks first in the country with 27 units recycling 452023 million metric tonnes.
Morbi
Chemical water from the factory is spreading in the river of Wankada village of Morbi, the health of 15 villages is at risk.
4 people died due to chemical poison in Mangrole. Police took action. More than 700 barrels of toxic chemicals were seized. Chemical mafia has increased in Mangrole. (Google translation from Gujati)
How many factories are there in which district?
How much risk?
district total
Bharuch 107
Ahmedabad 49
Gandhinagar 34
Mehsana 13
Vadodara 82
Valsad 50
Rajkot 26
Morbi 278
Kheda 17
Kutch 62
Amreli 4
anand 15
Aravali 5
Banaskantha 1
Bhavnagar 8
Devbhoomi Dwarka 5
gir somnath 2
Jamnagar 9
Junagadh 2
Navsari 3
Panchmahal 7
Patan 1
Porbandar 2
Sabarkantha 9
Surat 34
Surendranagar 2
2
botad 0
Chhota Udaipur 0
Dahod 0
riot 0
Mahisagar 0
Narmada 0
total 828
