(a) whether the Government are aware that smoke, noise and chemical waste of factories on both sides of national highway from Kanpur to Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh are eroding land fertility and also affecting human life; and
(b) if so, the action taken by the Government to rectify the situation?
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND FORESTS ( SHRI NAMO NARAIN MEENA )
(a) & (b) As per the available information, there are a few chemical industries in Chaudagara and Malba Industrial Estates located on the National Highway from Kanpur to Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh. These industries have installed adequate effluent treatment plants/emission control systems and no effects of waste disposal from such industrial units have come into the notice.
The Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board has directed the industries to develop disposal site with proper lining for avoiding ground water contamination. The Ministry of Environment and Forests has also sponsored a scheme for disposal of solid wastes, especially chromium containing wastes from tanneries in Rooma area, to be implemented by Kanpur Nagar Nigam.