Lok Sabha Question No. 3900 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-01-03
Subject: Hazardous Conditions in Ship Breaking Yards
Ministry: SHIPPING
Asked by: L.R. Shivaramegowda, Tejpratap Singh,Yadav, ANJU BALA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SHIPPING

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 39OO TO BE ANSWERED ON 3RD JANUARY,2OIg

## HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS  IN SHIP BREAKING YARDS

3900. SHRI. L. R. SHIVARAME COWDA: SHRI TEJ PRATAP SINGH YADAV: SHRIMATI ANJU BALA:

Will the Minister of SHIPPING  be pleased  to state:

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- (a) the number of workers employed  at various  ship breaking  yarCs  in the country and the details of ship breaking yards, State-wise along with the quaotity  and kind of waste generated at these  yards;
- (b) the details  of the norms laid down by the Covernment  for the disposal of solid waste  generated therefrom;
- (c) whether the workers  in these  yalds are reported  to be facing health hazards  due to negligent waste d isposal pl"cticesl
- (d) if so, the details thereof along with the steps taken  to improve  waste disposal practices  for well being  ofthese workels;  and
- (e) whether  there is an urgent  need for regulatory  framework lbr ship breaking industry in the country  and if so, the steps being taken  by the Covernment  in this regard?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER  OF STATE IN THE M]NISTRY OI.- SHIPPINC (SHRI PON. RADHAKRISHNAN)

- (a) Ship breaking takes place at yards at Alang-Sosiya in Gujarat,  Mumbai Port, Kolkata  Port and Azhikkal in Kerala. As per information received  from the ship breaking yards.  around 8000 workers are engaged by the ship recyclers in A long-Sosiya;around 50 workers  are engaged  by the ship recyclers  in Kolkata Porl; there  are 5 permanent and about  30 to 40 temporary  staff, recruited as per requirement, in Azhikkal; and in Mumbai Port, the workers  are engaged  by the ship breakers depending on requ rement, the exact figures  arehowever  not available.

The waste generated  during ship breaking includes ceramics,  glass, rusted iron scale, asbestos  and asbestos containing material, cooling  powder,  glass  wool, thermocol,  puff, oil sludge, paint chips, rubber gaskets,  contaminated  sand,  oil rags, pvc and plastics,  bilge wa1er,  contaminated water,  oily water, etc.

In Alang-Sosiya,  arowd 7794 metric tonnes of hazardous waste and 640 metric tonnes of municipal solid wastes were generated  during 2017-2018.  ln Kolkata  Port, 1334 kg of rvhite  cement,  I 347 kg of thermocol,  2058 kg of paint chips and wood waste, 1329 kg of waste  oil and 1216 kg ofglass wool were  generated from April,20l6 to November,20l8. In Mumbai Port, the waste generated is disposed  off by the ship breakers themselves  as per the terms  and conditions laid down by the Maharashtra  Pollution Control Board The quantity of waste  generated is not available with Mumbai Port. ln Kerala, around  20 tonnes  glass wool,  l5 tonnes  waste oil and 2 tonnes  puff is generated  from ship breaking in a year.

(b) Solid and hazardous  wastes  generated from the ship recycling activities al€ disposed  off as per the Hazardous  and Other Wastes  (Management and Transboundary Movement)  Rules,  2016, under the supervision of respective state pollution control boards.

- (c) No such report lras been received.
- (d) Does not arise.
- (e) Regulatory framework  for ship breaking industry  in the country  is already in place in the form of Shipbreaking Code (Revised),  201 3.