TMC to conduct environment impact assessment survey

Emission levels will be monitored and samples drawn from there will be tested, he said. Mobile vans will also be pressed into service in Kolshet Balkum, where the maximum number of chemical industries are located.

Although pollution levels are yet to reach alarming levels in the area, water samples drawn from wells and storage tanks in housing societies indicate that thepollution levels were also not negligible.

Both TMC commissioner T Chandrashekhar and member secretary of the National Pollution Control Board, Dr S P Chaturvedi, have reportedly urged the Ministry of Environment and Forest to give more powers to civic chiefs to take action on those violating regulations. Civic bodies should get the legal power to prosecute such units which flout regulations and are often responsible for industrial mishaps which affect residents who live around such industries, it was stated.