Industrial pollution backlog

What has happened in the years gone by so as to determine the cumulative magnitude of industrial pollution to-date? What action could the government take against those who failed to comply with its directives in the interregnum? Needless to say, many new industries have come up between 1997 and now. Have they got any effluent treatment plant?

It is highly imperative that we have an updated list of industries causing pollution to environment through their wastes, together with identification of those that are actually following the rules. What's the use having an 'environmental management action plan' if its not implemented contemporaneously? We want its fuller implementation. We understand it involves a huge task, like relocating certain industries away from habitats and compelling other industries in good locations to have effluent treatment plants that are missing. The need for these now is more than ever.

Tap here to add The Daily Star as a trusted source

Let's take the opportunity here of expressing our concern over another major source of pollution. The mushrooming private clinics, which have almost taken the shape of an industry, do not have any adequate garbage disposal system, so that they are creating a serious public health hazard.

We want the problem taken up in earnest and resolved as early as possible.