Govt announces plans to improve TNPCB infrastructure

Tamil Nadu government today announced a slew of measures to improve the infrastructure in its Pollution Control Board, in a bid to check the pollution levels and ensuring a clean environment in the state.
Environment Minister Venkatachalam said, government would construct buildings for TNPCB at Erode, Coimbatore (South), Vaniyambadi, Nagappattinam, Oragadam, Tiruvallur and Salem at a cost of Rs 14 crore during 2014-15.
A sum of Rs 6.15 crore would be spent to construct an environment air monitoring centre in the SIPCOT campus in Erode during 2014-15, he announced in the Assembly, adding Vellore Regional Office of TNPCB would be constructed at Rs 75 lakh.

After replying to the cut motion on the grant for environment department, he said,Rs 75 lakh would be spent to install three water monitoring points in the Cauvery river area in the stretch between Bhavani and Karur to check the pollution level in the river.
In addition to the existing five district environment labs, 10 more would be set up at Rs five crore and another Rs 3.70 crore would be spent to improve their infrastructure, the Minister said.
TNPCB library would be digitised at a cost of Rs 20 lakh, he said, adding a plastic collection and recycling centre would be set up in 16 places across the state at a cost of Rs 2.40 crore.