MP Pollution Control Board Chairman Dr NP Shukla said that e-waste which includes electrical and electronic products and their parts are now emerging as a serious challenge in all cities and rural areas. According to an estimate by the year 2012 e-waste would be about 80-lakh tons, which has to be disposed according to the environmental rules.

After the biomedical waste treatment plant in Sewree was closed down in 2003 amid complaints of pollution in the nearby areas, the one at Deonar has run afoul of residents, who complain the pollutants and allergens being emitted by the plant is causing a wide range of illness.

Satish Shile, Bangalore, Feb 18, DH News Service:

The manufacturing unit of a major pharmaceutical company located at Virgonagar in Bangalore has violated the norms for scientific disposal of effluent.

Due to economic progress production of electrical and electronic items has gone up considerably in the country. These products are being updated frequently and the old products become outdated and replaced by the new technology products. We call these outdated products as e-waste. The e-waste is growing rapidly.

After the administration and Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) drastically failed to meet its dead line of 2008 to preserve the natural water source

The cash-strapped Punjab government may be planning to increase its annual medical budget for the treatment of cancer, and install reverse osmosis systems for clean drinking water in villages, but it does not seem to be making adequate efforts to check the root cause of many other diseases in the state.

M. Soundariya Preetha

Board contends that the fees were hiked after 13 years and is meagre for SMEs

The consent fees were hiked by nearly 500 per cent for some small-scale units

The hike is only 300 per cent to 450 per cent for large-scale units

The Karnataka Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has found that minor non-compliance by industries in Mangalore had led to the high-level of pollution.

KSPCB Member Secretary M S Goudar said:

The West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) is going to enact a law for all the new buildings making it mandatory for them to install low carbon emitting lights.