Aujla forms task force to check pollution

  • | Friday | 9th April, 2021

Other members of the task force would be the MC Commissioner officials of the PPCB DDPO Drainage Department Industries Department industrialists and NGOs. He asked the department concerned to lay new pipes along the drain for carrying industrial effluents and discharge by dairies. He said apart from industrial waste dairies were also releasing waste into it. Heavy toxic metals chemicals and industrial effluents have percolated into sub-soil and groundwater aquifers which have adversely affected human health. Over a period of time multiple agencies conducted studies and found that persistent release of toxic industrial effluents into the drain resulted in groundwater contamination and poor air quality around it.

Tribune News Service Amritsar April 8 MP Gurjeet Singh Aujla on Wednesday held a meeting over the release of toxic industrial effluents into Tung Dhab drain which is leading to the contamination of groundwater and poor air quality in the holy city. He directed the formation of a task force under Deputy Commissioner Gurpreet Singh Khaira which would submit its findings to chalk out a new plan to prevent pollution in the holy city within the next 10 days. Other members of the task force would be the MC Commissioner officials of the PPCB DDPO Drainage Department Industries Department industrialists and NGOs. He asked the department concerned to lay new pipes along the drain for carrying industrial effluents and discharge by dairies. Aujla said laxity in this regard would cost dearly in terms of health of future generations. He said effluents of six drains were being discharged into Tung Dhab drain. He said apart from industrial waste dairies were also releasing waste into it. To prevent this a dairy complex equipped with a treatment plant would be raised and asked the District Development and Panchayat Officer to prepare a report regarding the project said the MP. He said the National Green Tribunal had already issued guidelines to the Municipal Corporation (MC) and the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) to stop release of industrial effluents and waste by dairies into the drain. Heavy toxic metals chemicals and industrial effluents have percolated into sub-soil and groundwater aquifers which have adversely affected human health. Studies have found evidence of eye and skin ailments endocrine disruptions cancer and congenital defects among people besides damaging childrens DNA. Over a period of time multiple agencies conducted studies and found that persistent release of toxic industrial effluents into the drain resulted in groundwater contamination and poor air quality around it. These studies were conducted by the PGI Chandigarh the Human Genetics and Chemistry Departments of Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU) Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) India in collaboration with the Aquatic Biology Laboratory of GNDU.

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