G. H.

Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur

(An Autonomous Institute affiliated to RTM Nagpur University)
Subject: e-waste Management-Sem-VII-Session-2021-2022

Responsibility of SPCB

SPCBs has been assigned the following duties:

Issues: • Rationale for two parallel structures in the form of

Preparation of Granting CPCB and SPCB, each one working as independent and
inventory of e-waste registration autonomous entity in its own capacity with no single agency
to command and control • Former is controlled by central
Ensure that collection Centre govt. and the latter is controlled by state govt. resulting in
Granting should not store e-waste for a problem of coordination. • Dichotomy of control leading to
division of work, SPCB entrusted with important and critical
period exceeding one hundred
authorization and eighty days functions of enforcement and compliance, while CPCB as
advisory and coordination role. • It is clear that two
Monitoring of compliance of Maintaining information on organizations (CPCB and SPCBs) are linked to output
authorization and the conditions imposed for performance without having inbuilt functional relationship. •
registration conditions authorization If the same structure be continuing, how can the CPCB has
more stakes in the functioning of SPCBs The issue is of critical
importance when the performance of CPCB is largely
Presently more than 400,000 tonnes of E-waste is generated which may increase in coming dependent on the performance of SPCBs.
years. MoEF has evolved the guidelines for E-Waste Management. • Inventory of E-Waste
Generation in the Country to be done by SPCBs/PCCs. • Common facility for E-Waste
management (Collection, Segregation, Recovery and Reuse Facility) in Public Private Name of the student: Shreesh Tiwari
Partnership mode to be setup. • More emphasis on metal recovery • To treat E-waste and
battery waste Semester/Sec/Roll No: VII/B/52