Dress code to check pollution

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Dr Raman Singh has suggested a dress code for industrialists. Not for their board rooms, but for when they’re in their factories. “The owners of polluting industries in the state have started wearing coloured clothes”, Singh said while adding that if they really wanted to know how their units were faring in the war against pollution, they should start wearing white clothes — by the end of the day, the soot on their clothes would make it obvious just how much pollution the firms were creating. Singh, however, was quick to clarify that the state authorities had not failed to check pollution. Not all industrialists needed to wear the white dresses, he said, since 90 per cent industries were following environmental norms — it was the remaining 10 per cent that needed to wear white.