Department of Environment yesterday fined a dyeing factory Tk 30 lakh on charge of polluting the Karnaphuli violating environmental law.
DoE Director (monitoring and enforcement) Munir Chowdhury led a drive in Super Knitting and Dyeing Mills in the city's Bayezid Bostami area, said a press release.
During the drive the DoE team found the factory was running its production though its effluent
Hazardous lead-based paints have a huge market in India with 30 million new houses on offer by the booming real estate sector.
Talking to The Tribune a day after the Quality Council of India (QCI)-initiated study revealed shocking findings of lethal lead levels in majority of enamel paints available in the country, council
TWO Common Ef fluent Treatment plants (CETPs), 86 dyeing and washing units attached to these CETPs and an Individual Effluent Treatment Plant (IETP) were closed down by the Tirupur branch of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) on Wednesday, as the units were found to be discharging effluents into the Noyyal river.
Based on complaints, a team of TNPCB officials, led by District Enviro
Tirupur: The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) on Friday evening ordered closure of 54 dyeing units, attached to three common effluent treatment plants (CETPs) here, for its failure to comply with the Supreme Court directive pertaining to pollution caused on water bodies.
The exercise will be carried out in presence of residents
CHENNAI: The Madras High Court on Monday said a member of the court Registry would collect water samples from the Noyyal river in the presence of the residents of Athupalayam village in Karur district.
The First Bench comprising Chief Justice M.Y.Eqbal and Justice T.S.Sivagnanam passed the interim order while adjourning to October 21
ERODE: The Kalingarayan Pasana Sabhai has urged the State government to initiate concrete measures to check the discharge of untreated effluents of textile and tannery units into the water carrying channels.
