27/12/2017
PUNE: The
Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has shut down as many as 49
factories, mostly chemical and pharmaceutical units, in Pune during the past
two years for large-scale violation of anti-pollution laws and causing damage
to the environment.
The factories found to be discharging pollutants into the
Mula-Mutha river streams were investigated by the MPCB and have been found to
have violated the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974, and
the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981.
Information regarding the factory closure was revealed by MPCB
under the Right to Information (RTI) Act filed by the Watchdog Foundation based
in Mumbai. Earlier, speaking to pune-news.com,
P Anbalagan, member secretary of MPCB said, “We asked the factories to shut
down as a last resort after they repeatedly failed to comply with environmental
laws. We were forced to take this action on the basis of the severity of the
violations.”
Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Maharashtra has the maximum
number of polluted river stretches in the country - 49 of 315. Around 3,000
million litres of untreated sewage and industrial effluents regularly flow into
the rivers, lakes, and other water bodies of the state.
The ministry of environment, forests and climate change
(MoEFCC) in its report stated that while Maharashtra generates 13% of the
country’s sewage, about 8,143 million litres a day (MLD), it has facilities to
treat only 5,160.36 million litres of sewage on a daily basis.
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