Punjab Pollution Control Board conducted surprise check on 27 dyeing industries of ludhiana during the past three days to check the compliances of the effluent treatment plant and their operation after giving a facilitation services to all the 236 small scale dyeing industries of ludhiana.
During the surprise checks, effluent samples of these industries were collected to check the adequacy of their treatment plants.
Ravinder Singh, Chairman of the Board, said that on various platforms, the representative of the dyeing associations of ludhiana requested the Board to act a facilitator and to guide them regarding improvements to be made in their pollution control systems so that they may be able to comply with the pollution control norms.
The Board conceding their request constituted 10 teams in June 2013 to visit all the 236 small scale industries of ludhiana door to door and to convey them the discrepancies if any, to the industries.
After completing this process and giving the industries adequate time to upgrade and remove the discrepancies in their pollution control devices, the Board surprisingly checked 27 industries during the last three days under the supervision of senior environmental engineer by constituting seven teams and it was surprising to note that only a few industries had shown interest in upgrading their systems.
The Chairman said that this attitude of the dyeing industries needs to be changed to comply with the pollution control norms.He further said that the law will take its own course, if any industry was found violating the norms.