Monitoring to be stepped up in Eloor-Edayar industrial region

Kerala State Pollution Control Board to form panel

A monitoring committee consisting of members of industrial association, elected members, environmentalists and government officials will be formed to avoid the increasing incidents of air and water pollution in the Eloor-Edayar industrial region. The State Pollution Control Board will take the lead in forming the monitoring committee. Residents in Eloor municipality, Kadungalloor, Alangad, and Varapuzha panchayats had been protesting against repeated incidents of odour and water pollution in the region. Many had experienced respiratory and other health ailments following the spike in pollution. Besides the elected representatives of the local bodies, the committee will have representatives of industrial associations, board officials, environmentalists, and farmers. They will meet every two months to assess the situation. The preliminary assessment by the board had found that the biofilter system installed in 13 units suspected to be responsible for the odour pollution was not functioning properly.