GPCB has become an office of Corruption: Do you want to be a Chairman of GPCB?

Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) is the chief regulator for implementation of environmental protection and pollution control laws in the Gujarat state. The CMO official said that senior IAS officer Sanjiv Kumar, who is holding the charge of chairman of the body, has requested the government of India to relieve him of the additional charge as he does not want to continue in the GPCB. Mr. Sanjiv Kumar is a 1998 batch IAS officer and is currently posted as Managing Director of GSPC and Gujarat Gas and has been given the additional charge of chairman, GPCB.

Currently the rumours spread in the political circle that to become a chairman of GPCB biggest degree is an amount around ₹10 crores INR and three year time will be given to a chairman to rule the GPCB. The citizen of Gujarat realised that why air and water pollution increase year by year. The tagline “Na Khaunga Na Khane Dunga” of Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi means he doesn’t know who is demanding rupees and allowed to destroy rivers, lakes, air and lands? Gujarat is a pollution free state? Is it aliens coming from the universe to destroy water, air and land of Gujarat? Universal conspiracy against BJP and Prime Minister of India?   

In the next round of bureaucratic reshuffle, the government of India is elected to replace Sanjiv Kumar with another senior official to be a new chairman of GPCB assuming that he/she is financially wealthy to be a chairman of GPCB. A senior position said “The government will have to take strong actions against the officials of the GPCB as the corruption has become deep rooted with most of the top officials receive regular haftas from the industries,”. 

According to sources, previous administration of Vijay Rupani had apparently turned blind towards malpractices in the statutory body.  The comprehensive inputs received in the CMO have details about some middlemen who broker deals between the GPCB officials and industries, who flout environmental norms, discharge untreated effluents directly into rivers or water bodies and don’t follow the rules prescribed under the laws and regulations. The GPCB required to publish reports on deterioration of water quality, air quality and land quality by cities every six month in Gujarat.