CPCB to create industry index

An expert team of Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) is trying to create an index to categorise industries in a scientific manner.
"We are trying to find out an index which will be able to categorise industries in a more scientific way. We are working on it and have developed one model," West Bengal Pollution Control Board Chairman Prof Binay K Dutta told reporters today on the sideline of the 51st Annual General Meeting of the Indian Paint Association here today.
So far industries had been categorised on the basis of their pollution potential. "But till now we do not have any measure of the pollution potential. So we are trying to measure it in more scientific way," he said.

Representatives of pollution control boards from six states including West Bengal, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh are in the expert team, he said.
The model would be placed before the CPCB to decide on its implementation.
"We are now fitting it (the model) into a real life data in different industries. We hope that we will be able to come up with a more sound and more scientific method of categorising industries. It's a pan India concept," he said.

The board would quantify pollution in terms of emissions, effluent and wastes.
"We are also taking advice from Confederations of Indian Industries (CII), Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and other commerces for opinion for reviewing our categorisation," Dutta said.

The information would be used to calculate the industry categorisation index, he added.