AoI meets Regional Director PCB

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 3: Association of Industries (AoI) under the chairmanship of Balbir Kumar Gupta met Regional Director, Pollution Control Board (PCB).
President of the association while speaking raised the issues regarding the guidelines of the PCB. He requested Regional Director to finalise the checklist with lesser formalities for small scale units.
SB Abrol, senior vice president raised the issue of 70 types of manufacturing units, which were earlier in the exemption list of PCB, have now been included with orange category.
Abrol urged Regional Director to exempt these units from orange category and also stressed the need for installation of hi-tech pollution checking laboratories by the department.
Sajjad Mufti, Regional Director PCB assured early redressal to the issues raised by the members of the association.
Among others present were Jugal Kishore, vice president, Anil Raina, secretary, Lavinder Singh Puri, treasurer and executive/advisory committees of the association.