The Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board (CECB) on Monday directed a total of 44 rolling mills near Raipur city to shut down their units immediately following their not installing the mandatory ‘online emission monitoring’ systems.
The Board has also directed officials to cut power supply to the erring mills immediately, officials informed.
This was informed at a meeting chaired by Principal Secretary, Housing and Environment Aman Kumar Singh in Raipur on Monday. Raipur District Collector O P Choudhary and Raipur Municipal Commissioner Rajat Bansal were present at the meeting, among other senior officials.
This is by far the biggest action taken by CECB against units which had not abided by the stringent pollution control norms.
During the meeting, it was also decided that work for pollution checks of all vehicles in urban pockets across the State be taken up jointly by City Police and the Traffic Department with the deadline to complete pollution checks of all vehicles in urban areas by December 31, 2016.