About 2,800 or nearly 90 per cent of critically polluting industrial units have installed 24X7 monitoring devices to check pollution after the Centre took a firm stand that factories can only function if they adhere to green norms, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday said.
The Narendra Modi-led government has made industries understand that they can only run by undertaking environment friendly policies which will be monitored 24X7. This was a big victory,” Javadekar said at a gathering of Paryavaran Suraksha Manch of RSS-affiliated trade union Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh.
"He said out of nearly 700 industries on the banks of Ganga, around 500 have already installed monitoring devices.
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