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NGO joins pollution war
Source: The Telegraph, New Delhi, Date: , 2009
After the district administration gave into public
protests and scrapped a sponge iron plant project in Udanabad, it is now
an NGO of Dhanbad that has joined the war against pollution caused by
these units. A four-member team of Green and Labour Welfare said they
had conducted a study at Chatro and neighbouring villages, which
revealed that the sponge iron units were largely responsible for
polluting the environment.“The condition is alarming in Chatro,
Gangapur, Mahtodih, Kalhamanjho Jaambaad, Udanabad and many other
villages where sponge iron units have come up. In these places, the
industrialists flouted norms while the administration, the pollution
board and the industries department failed to take any action against
them,” said Kumar Arjun Singh, the working president of NGO.““No where
else disabled babies are being born, agricultural lands are turning
infertile and water is getting poisoned,” he said.The NGO demanded a
pollution control office in Giridih. “We will meet the higher
authorities of the pollution control board and write to the governor.
Besides, we will also organise an awareness camp in the affected areas
in July,” he added.
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