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PPCB not working to reduce pollution: Seechewal
Source: http://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/20100615/punjab.htm#4, Date: , 2010
The Punjab Pollution Control Board
(PPCB) is not working to reduce pollution. Noted environmentalist and
PPCB member for one year Sant Balbir Singh Seechewal stated this at a
workshop on Religion and Environment organised here by Mahatma Gandhi
State of Public Administration, Punjab.
Seechewal later even
displayed samples of water taken from the Beas when it enters Punjab and
that from the Kala Sangha drain near Jalandhar. He said he had been
telling the PPCB authorities to take required action to stop release of
the effluents into the Kala Sangha drain in Jalandhar and the Budha Nala
in Ludhiana, but to no avail. Seechewal went on to claim that there was a nexus between the
municipal corporation authorities and the industry, which was releasing
the effluents without check into the water bodies. He claimed that the
common treatment plan (CTP) needed at Dasuya was delayed due to issues
of high projected cost of Rs seven crore, but that his organisation had
established a temporary CTP at a cost of Rs 17 lakh only, which was
giving good results. Legislator
Darshan Singh Shivalik, who along with Makhan Singh and Harchand Kaur
were the only MLA’s who attended the conference, said during a recent
checking by a Vidhan Sabha committee, it was revealed that factory
owners had been “advised” by officials concerned not to release
effluents for few days till the checking was completed.
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