Mysuru: A day after the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) ordered the closure of eight auxiliary dyeing units in the city and police filed cases against the owners of the plants, pollution board officials, along with district administration authorities on Thursday confiscated materials at two plants.On Wednesday, KSPCB officials directed these units, which were operating without taking necessary permission from the competent authorities, to shut shop. On Thursdays KSPCB officials, along with a tahsildar and Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) authorities seized materials from two of the plants that were told to close in Bannimantap.KSPCB pollution control officer BM Prakash told TOI that they raided two units falling within Narasimharaja (NR) police station limits. “When we conducted the raid , we found that one of the units was locked, while the other one, though open, had no employees. We will close the remaining six units in the coming days,” Prakash said.He said that all the dyeing units were established by businessmen from Tamil Nadu. “While some of them pay a higher rent in order to be able to run these units, others set up shop in areas that are less crowded. Once they rent out these spaces, the owners allow the effluents to flow into the underground drainage network. We will initiate action against the owners of the property that was rented out for these units. There are provisions in the Indian Penal Code, wherein the owners of the units can be imprisoned for up to five years,” Prakash added.Fuming at the pollution caused by the dyeing units, Prakash said that the owners had managed to operate these plants with generators even after the Chamundeshwari Electricity Supply Corporation had disconnected power supply. “These dyeing units have already contaminated groundwater in Tamil Nadu, owing to which the government there took stringent action against them. Now, they have started to relocate to places where there is bound to less hindrance to their work,” he said.Tahsildar Ramesh Babu, MCC health officer Dr Nagaraj and Tabassum were among those who were present during the raid.

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