(1)

Every holder of prospecting licence, prospecting licence cum mining lease or a mining lease shall take all possible precautions to prevent or reduce the discharge of toxic and objectionable liquid effluents from mine, workshop, beneficiation or metallurgical plants, tailing ponds, into surface water bodies, ground water aquifer and useable lands, to a minimum.

(2)

The effluents referred to in sub-rule (1) shall be suitably treated, if required, to conform to the standards laid down in this regard.