Dyeing units served notice for polluting Ganga

KANPUR: The district administration and the pollution department of Farrukhabad have issued directives to shut the textile dyeing units operating in residential areas and those polluting the Ganga. The authorities have identified several dyeing units discharging waste water directly into the Ganga.
The units had been served notices by the Uttar Pradesh State Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) but the units had not yet complied with the notice and the board has finally asked the district administration to take action against them.Lakshman Singh, an environmentalist, said around 25 to 30 textile dyeing units have become one of the major cause of pollution of the Ganga in the district.
Majority of these units operate from residential pockets of the district.
"A team of experts from UPPCB had recently visited the Sahebganj locality where a dyeing unit is located. They marked several other textile dyeing units also which were releasing dangerous chemicals into the river without treating them," said assistant engineer UPPCB Prakhar Kumar. The UPPCB has finally handed the list of these units to district administration for action. Additional city magistrate Shriniwas Tiwari said a notice with a complaint under Section 33-A of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act 1974 has been received by us from UPPCB.
Tiwari said, "We will be taking action against the units in next few days. The state government has taken up the issue of making Ganga pollution free seriously and any unit polluting the river will not be spared."