Hindu: Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad, the city of glass and bangles, will now be surveyed for air pollution caused by its glass units operating within the Taj Trapezium Zone (TTZ) covering the Taj Mahal and 40 other protected monuments.
The world famous glass industries which have been in news since 1990s for environmental hazard will now be inspected for pollution that they might be causing and air samples from entire area of Firozabad will be collected for the same.
Recently, the Ministry of Environment & Forests had also written to the Agra administration about the expansion of glass industry and against capacity expansion of these gas based units in the TTZ. The National Green Tribunal on Wednesday directed the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board, the Central Pollution Control Board and the senior officers of the Taj Trapezium Zone to conduct a survey of entire area of Firozabad where these units are.
The Tribunal passed the directions while disposing of a petition filed by Social Action for Forest and Environment (SAFE) which claimed that about 60 glass units were operating in the Taj Trapezium zone without the consent of the pollution control board and should be closed for causing air pollution.
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