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| Authorities unmoved as industrial pollution makes people sick | | |  Ashwani Sharma
Early Times Report
UDHAMPUR, Nov 3: The industrial pollution here in the Battal Ballian area of the town has made live of the people miserable and with the authorities concerned in no mood of doing anything in this regard has further left the locals high and dry.
Locals informed that the pollution remains at its peak especially at night hours and that too within 2-3 km area at Battal Ballian.
"Every day in the morning we wake up to see all the dust and smoke everywhere making it difficult even to breathe," Pushpa-a housewife told Early Times.
She also said that they are concerned about the health of their children due to this pollution.
A doctor in the District Hospital Udhampur informed that some cases of Asthma and other breathing disorders have become a routine where symptoms show unfavourable environment problem owing to pollution.
"Many times we took the issue to the concerned Industrial Department but no action was taken," a senior citizen informed.
Office bearers of some trade organization informed that after the abrogation of Article 370 cement factories in Kashmir have stopped functioning and the burden has been shifted on Jammu based industries including those at Udhampur and accordingly pollution has been increased in the area.
Insiders in district administration informed that two or three year ago, the then DC Udhampur had constituted a committee of 13 officers from different departments to conduct a study on the menace of industrial pollution in the town but only few departments like agriculture department came up with its report highlighting soil pollution due to dumping of industrial wastes while other departments did nothing of the sort.
Insiders in certain industries informed that whenever some inspecting team visits the area, the industries are already informed and they accomplish all the face saving exercise.
It is pertinent to mention here that all these pollution related violations take place under the very nose of local office of PCB as the same lies very much within the industrial area.
Meanwhile, there is one such factory which even has no steel sheets to cover its premises and all the dust during the working hours of the factory directly comes out spoiling clothes of passersby and vehicles plying on the road as the factory is at a busy link road
Link road plant not even covered with tin sheets and dust comes openly over vehicles and pedestrians. |
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