The State Assembly committee on environment and pollution control arrived in city this afternoon. The team focused on disposal of industrial effluent’s and biomedical waste plantation of trees felled during road widening work in city.
The three-member State Assembly committee on environment and pollution control comprising chairman Jogendra Mahto (Bermo MlA), Raghunandan Mandal (Godda MlA) and Ramkumar Pahan(Khijri MlA) held nearly three-hour long meeting with corporate sectors and different government departments at the Circuit House.
The chairman said that the panel will be making surprise visits of different locations tomorrow to get a real picture about violation of environment and pollution norms.
The chairman further said that apart from Jamshedpur they would be visiting adjoining Seraikella-Kharsawan districts. The Assembly panel members also expressed concern about illegal sale of liquor and took to task the district excise department officials for not monitoring this aspects.
The panel also sought information from district administration and regional official of Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB) about polluting industrial units especially rice mills, crusher units.