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Pollution
Potential of Industries in Coastal Area of India
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Foreword
The Central Pollution
Control Board (CPCB) has a coastline of about 6,000 km long. Nearly
twenty five percent of the country's population lives near at the
land-water interface on a sustainable basis, it is imperative to adopt
appropriate pollution control an assessment of the present actual
state and extent of coastal pollution through systematic monitoring
over past few , it has now become important to identify and link the
pollution causative factors/sources for effective regulatory ures.
The present document provides an overview of location and types of
the large and medium industries in the al areas of the country that
may have direct or indirect potential to cause coastal pollution.
The document may be quite , and useful for the coastal states to initiate
regulatory action for abatement of coastal pollution. |
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Dilip Biswas
Chairman, CPCB
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