Agra's Leather Shoe units to check pollution

摘要

After hundreds of petha (sweetmeat) units were forced to shut down in Agra recently. Uttar Pradesh's pollution control body has now shifted its rocus to pollution causing leather shoe units here. The Uttar Pradesh Pollution control Board has issued notice to 74 pollution causing leather shoe units, many of them big export houses. Some of the units have been told to apply for the department's consent and many were told to shift outside the city limits. The board's regional officer B.B. Awasthy told. "Action has been taken, notices issued, now the units are responding and applying for consent. They are also arranging for management of leather cutting waste. Let's see."