Jaipur: Former environment minister Maneka Gandhi visited Jaitpur area in the Pali district on Sunday as she was invited by the farmers to take up the issue of Bandi river, which is getting polluted by industrial waste and making agricultural land infertile.

Gandhi inspected the area and said those responsible for polluting the river should not be spared and that stringent action be taken against them. “Pollution cannot go on in the name of industrialization,” she said.