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Tribune News ServiceJalandhar, March 29To facilitate industries falling in the districts of Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Nawanshahr and Amritsar, the Jalandhar Effluent Treatment Society (JETS) is soon going to install a common effluent treatment plant (CETP) in the Industrial Focal Point (Extension) area here. “Till date, the industries of Amritsar, Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur and Ludhiana are transporting their common effluents through tankers to Ludhiana. The plant, besides recycling waste of industries in Jalandhar, will recycle waste from the vicinity as well. However, with the setting up of this CETP, their transportation cost will be reduced and so will be the pollution level,”said Victor. It was in 2011 that industries based in Jalandhar had begun to transport effluents to Ludhiana to reduce pollution in KaIi Bein..