Chhattisgarh Government finally pulled up its shocks to check rising pollution graph in the industrial city Korba on Saturday. Korba is home to dozens of major and minor industrial units.
Principal Secretary of the housing and environment department and the chairman of Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board (CECB), N Baijendra Kumar chaired a meeting to discuss various aspects of this plan with the officials concerned in Naya Raipur. He also reviewed the steps taken by the factories and industrial units as their contribution to reduce pollution level.
Kumar warned the management of all the industrial units of public and private sectors to face strict actions, if they ever found violating and not adopting all the technical measurements required to control the pollution level. He also reviewed the works initiated and proposed by all the main industries as measurements to control pollution level from their end.
Those present in the meeting included the member secretary of CECB, Devendra Singh and officials concerned from BAlCO, SECl, NTPC, Chhattisgarh State Electricity Company (East and West) and the commissioner of Korba Municipal Corporation (KMC).As per the notification issued by Environment and Forest Ministry, Government of India, discussion on preparing a comprehensive plan for disposing of the fly ash was held.
Kumar said that 100 per cent use of fly ash is possible by better management. He added that most of the electricity production units are based on coal and due to increasing electricity demand; the production units are discharging fly ash in extra quantity.
He issued instructions to KMC commissioner for taking appropriate steps for better management of sewage treatment plant, solid waste management and stopping commercial and domestic use of coal.