NEW DELHI: An evaluation of 88 clusters, identified by central and state pollution control boards as polluted industrial areas, has thrown up a “bleak picture of air, water and land contamination”in India, the Centre for Science and Environment’s State of India’s Environment report 2021 shows, reports Vishwa Mohan Referring to the CPCB’s evaluation of the clusters on various green parameters, the report says Tarapur, 120km northwest of Mumbai, had emerged as the most polluted industrial cluster between 2009 and 2018.
It is followed by Mathura, Bulandshahr-Khurja, Moradabad (all in UP), Vadodara (Gujarat), Najafgarh drain basin (Delhi), Kanpur and Varanasi-Mirzapur (both UP).