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| Cement factories violate norms, add to pollution | | |  Ashwani Sharma
Early Times Report
Udhampur, Aug 20: Some cement factories like Shevalik cement, Wuller cement, Jinatt cemnet and others in Battal Ballian are working against the norms and are polluting air thereby posing a grave threat to precious human lives.
Early Times correspondent saw huge dust storm and black smoke coming out of the factories.
Experts opine that if this continues the localities near these factories will get respiratory ailments and other deadly diseases like lungs cancer and other heart diseases which occurred air pollution Sohan Lal-a local informed that many times they brought this into the notice of the distric administration as well as SPCB against these factories and appealed them to control the pollution but nothing happen.
Moreover, the factories work round the clock and disturb the sleep of people at night due to noise and black smoke coming out of its resulting people difficult to breathe when they were sleeping.
The Pollution Control Board here has always posed a blind eye to the violations by this factory while Directorate of Industries are also in the same line as far as its working is concerned., he added.
When contacted DC Ravinder Kumar said the SPCB can stop it. |
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