The Central Pollution Control Board is in the process of quantifying and assessing the quality of "e-waste" generated from IT companies in Bangalore as a prelude to framing a national policy on e-waste management, the board's officials said. | |
| The board's south zone office, here, has been given the mandate for 'E-Waste Inventorisation and Survey', said Suneel Dave, an environment engineer with the board at a two-day seminar on energy conservation and industrial waste management on Friday. The seminar was organised by the Bangalore Chamber of Industry and Commerce. |
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| The board has constituted a task force in consultation with representatives from the IT industry, government bodies, and non governmental organisations (NGOs). |
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| The task force is expected to conduct a rapid survey covering cities having IT and IT Enabled Services (ITES) concentration, such as Bangalore, Chennai and Kolkata, Dave said. |
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| Some companies have come forward voluntarily while others are worried about being penalised. The board had roped in the NGOs to help speed things up, he said. |
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| Earlier, Tapan Chakrabarti, head of the environmental biotech division of the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) said there are 13,000 industrial units spread over 340 districts in the country. |
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| "Half of them, comprising small and medium size businesses, pollute the environment. But they can't be taken lightly for they generate three million jobs," he said. |
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