‘more Gas Tragedies In Waiting’: Activists Warn Against Pollution | Ludhiana News

‘more Gas Tragedies In Waiting’: Activists Warn Against Pollution | Ludhiana News



Ludhiana: Even the cold weather could not stop them. Eight months after a poisonous gas emanating from a sewer line in Giaspura led to 11 deaths on April 30 last year, environmental activists gathered at Sherpur Chowk on Sunday to protest against the lack of enforcement of environmental laws in Ludhiana — a reason they cited for the tragedy.
The protest came nearly three weeks after a team of the National Green Tribunal collected samples from Giaspura’s Sua Road, where environmental norms are often thrown to the wind and chemicals are dumped in sewer lines.At the time of the gas leak tragedy, the victims had dropped dead after inhaling the poisonous hydrogen sulphide gas.
On Sunday, activists raised awareness against the dangers of flouting environmental norms and how pollutants are dumped in the Buddha Nullah, Satluj, subsoil water, and other water bodies. The activists were led by R S Arora, a lawyer and enviromental activist. He criticised government inaction against people who caused the tragedy. He emphasized on the need to discard the policy of MLUs and to keep living areas away from commercialisation and industrialisation.
Arora said environmental norms were still flouted in the city. “If not checked and controlled in a short time, Ludhiana may be witness to more such disasters in future,” he said.
‘Mattewara
park plan back’
The activists also opposed a recent advertisement by the Punjab government regarding Mattewara textile park, which had been junked amid protests by civil society over the damage it could caus to the Satluj flood plain. In advertisements issued on Sunday, the state government has claimed to have established a 100-acre industrial park in Mattewara. “It appears that the plan to establish the textile park has been reinitiated. It will come up in the middle of the Mattewara forest and along the southern bank of Satlu,” said Arora.
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