Environment Clearance in Shahad, Ulhasnagar.

For an established plant at Shahad, the clearance question usually concerns modernisation or expansion: new lines, capacity increases, a switch of fuel or feedstock. Chemical and fibre manufacture falls within the EIA schedule, and a change that raises pollution load needs appraisal. We establish the baseline from existing consents and monitoring, model what the change will do, and put the river and the neighbouring housing at the centre of the application.

Shahad sits on the boundary between Ulhasnagar and Kalyan, around its railway station and the road that runs from Kalyan towards Murbad. The Ulhas flows close by. The area is best known for the large Century Rayon works, a long-established plant producing viscose rayon and chemicals, whose campus occupies a large tract of land. Around it are older residential colonies, markets and, more and more, new residential towers. Few places in this crowded belt put heavy industry, a river and new housing so close together, and the view from a fresh tower balcony often takes in all three.