Hyderabad: The Central Pollution Control Board has sent closure orders to four pharmaceutical units in Patancheru which failed to link up with the board’s online pollution monitoring system.
The four units — Roopa Industries, Inventaa Chemicals, Srihita Chemicals and SS Organics — are listed as highly polluting industries. The PCB had served notices on them for not joining the system.
“They have equipment but they haven’t linked up with the CPCB’s cloud, making continuous monitoring difficult,” said Mr Bhadra Girish, environment engineer with the Pollution Control Board.
The system involves the installation of CCTV cameras at the spot where the treated waste water is let out. Flow meters are to be installed to measure the outflow of treated waste water and the data is stored with the CPCB. If it does not receive any data, an alert is sent to the State PCB to investigate.
