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Kolkata , Feb. 16

THE State Government has proposed to change the name of West Bengal Pollution Control Board to Environment Protection Agency to widen the domain of the latter's activity.

Inaugurating Environment Fair 2005, the first-of-its-kind in the State, the Environment Minister, Mr Manabendra Mukherjee, said that the existing pollution control norms framed in 1974 had become outdated and needed an immediate replacement. "We have requested the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to update the norms."

The WBPCB Chairman, Dr Sudip K. Bannerjee, said that the fair had been organised to encourage people to take part in protecting the environment by adopting eco-friendly methods of production in every sphere.

Dr Bannerjee, however, blamed lack of public awareness as a major cause of pollution. "Merely 18 per cent of the vehicles in Kolkata comply with the mandatory pollution control norms."

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