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The Kerala State Pollution Control Board (PCB) has said that powerfulness disconnection notices were issued by the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) to 7 flat units on Thevara-Perandoor and Edappally canals arsenic they had failed to respond to the earlier directive to taxable an undertaking seeking a tenable clip to acceptable up sewage attraction plants (STPs).
These units had figured among the 71 flat complexes that had travel nether the scanner of the committee for not having STPs arsenic per the norms. The deadline for submitting an affidavit on with resolutions successful the lawsuit of companies/societies stating that they required a tenable clip to instal sewage attraction plants (STPs), too seeking the mandatory consent to run the installation had ended connected August 30, 2025.
The KSEB had issued the powerfulness disconnection notices based connected the directive issued by the Ernakulam territory bureau of the board. The erring units person been fixed a week to taxable valid clearance orders from the committee oregon immoderate different competent authority.
The counsel for the Apartment Owners Apex Association (Kerala) pointed retired that immoderate of the apartments that had received the powerfulness disconnection announcement dated October 7, 2025, were faced with acute abstraction crunch to acceptable up the facility.
The relation had earlier filed a nationalist involvement litigation earlier the Kerala High Court to resoluteness the sewage contented issue by opting for a centralised web alternatively than going for decentralised units, particularly successful flat complexes facing abstraction crunch. It had besides blamed the committee for not acting against commercialized units and different sources liable for the contamination of the canals.
The tribunal had told the panel, which includes the Local Self-Government section Principal Secretary, State Pollution Control Board chairperson, Kerala Water Authority managing director, and the Kochi Corporation secretary, to survey the issues raised successful the nationalist involvement litigation filed by the relation and different petitions to find a semipermanent solution to sewage pollution.
