Message From Member Secretary:
Dr.Shantanu Kr. Dutta
Pollution Control Board, Assam (PCBA), is the regulatory as well as Technical and Scientific organization for pollution control in the state.Accordingly, PCBA has been working for the cause of environmental pollution control in Assam. With a focus on Ease of Doing Business (EODB) and Business Reform Action Plan (BRAP) and the Board has been working to achieve its objectives with due compliance of the Environmental Regulation.
Special focus is given to expedite granting of the consent under the water Act,1974 and Air Act ,1981 and Authorization under the Bio-Medical Waste Management Rules, 2016 and the Hazardous and Other Waste (Management, Handling & Trans Boundary Movement) Rules, 2016 and putting all its effort to regularize the consent to about 10,000 nos. of industries in the State.
PCBA has recently adopted the eOffice and has been working relentlessly towards achieveing the paperless office concept.