Vikas Sharma

Sections 30–32 of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974: works the Board may carry out at the occupier's cost, intimation of an accidental discharge, and emergency measures3 Oct 2026 Sections 28 and 29 of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974: the appeal against a consent order to the State appellate authority and the State Government's revision power3 Oct 2026 Section 27A of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974: the Central Government's guidelines on granting, refusing or cancelling consent, binding on every State Board3 Oct 2026 Sections 26 and 27 of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974: existing discharges of sewage or trade effluent, and the State Board's refusal, review or withdrawal of consent3 Oct 2026 Section 25 of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974: the State Board's consent before establishing an industry or bringing a new outlet into use, the application, conditions, deemed consent and the 2024 exemption power3 Oct 2026 Section 24 of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974: the ban on knowingly letting poisonous, noxious or polluting matter into a stream, well or sewer, and the exceptions3 Oct 2026 Sections 21–23 of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974: taking samples of effluent, the procedure and the reports of analysis, and the power of entry and inspection3 Oct 2026 Sections 19 and 20 of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974: restricting the Act to specified areas and the Board's power to obtain information, survey and give directions on abstraction or discharge3 Oct 2026 Sections 17 and 18 of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974: the functions of the State Pollution Control Board and the power of the Central and State Governments to give directions3 Oct 2026 Section 16 of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974: the functions of the Central Pollution Control Board3 Oct 2026 Sections 13–15 of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974: Joint Boards for two or more States or a State and a Union territory, their composition and directions3 Oct 2026 Sections 5–12 of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974: members' terms and disqualifications, vacation of seats, meetings, committees, delegation to the chairman and the member-secretary3 Oct 2026