Eight top industrial units in Himachal Pradesh's booming industrial zone will have no power from Thursday, while 122 other units have been served notices for polluting a nearby river. | |
| This action has been taken by the state pollution control board after thousands of fish died in the Sarsa river which flows at the edge of the Baddi-Barotiwala and Nalagarh industrial area, some 120 km from here. |
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| "Eight units will lose their electricity while 122 others have been served notices to explain," said Chetan Joshi, an official of the pollution control board office at Baddi. |
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| "These polluters include five pesticide units, two textile mills and one paper mill," he said. |
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| "This action was taken after a team of experts of the state pollution control board found in its report that these units had been polluting the river with toxic wastes which led to the death of a large number of fish on June 14," he said. |
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| The state pollution control board has made it compulsory for industrial units in Baddi-Barotiwala and Nalagarh to treat industrial effluents before it enters the Sarsa river as it has led to several fish kills several times in the past few years. |
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