#Ghaziabad residents raise a stink over rising pollution
In a letter to the chief minister, senior IRI member Prof HC Pande said that the problem had assumed acute proportions in around 50 villages of Ghaziabad. During a recent visit of a team of IRI the villagers showed that apart from large-scale damages to agriculture, residents have been suffering from various acute ailments.
The villagers told the IRI team that the flow of water from Tronica City into the canal has led to massive damage to farmlands in the area. Due to the foul smell, villagers are unable to work on their fields.
Pande also said the distributed temperature sensing (DTS) level of river Hindon around villages Ghari, Siraura, Bhoopkheri, Bhanera, Aslatpur and Farrukhnagar had gone up dangerously. The alarming rise of cases of cancer, heart attack, kidney and continuous fever has become a matter of concern and at least 50% population has been suffering from respiratory diseases in the region. The IRI team was told that at least 70% population had been taking medicines for one or the other ailment. Air pollution, causing respiratory trouble, has also led to acute problems of wide spread obesity.
Seeking UP government’s assistance in tackling the pollution menace, IRI has requested that the district administration, UPSIDC and UP pollution control board should take immediate corrective measures to stop water and air pollution in the area.
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