MP: Dhar PCB office merged with Indore unit amid concern over Union Carbide waste disposal in Pithapuram
Deccan ChronicleBhopal: Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board has decided to merge its Dhar regional office with its Indore branch. The development assumes significance in the wake of the recent public unrest witnessed in the industrial town of Pithampur in Dhar district in Madhya Pradesh over the planned disposal of Union Carbide waste at the local incineration facility. The Madhya Pradesh PCB, in its order, directed to merge its Dhar regional office with the Indore PCB office. The Indore PCB regional officer S N Dwivedy has been given the additional charge of Dhar region, while Dhar PCB regional officer Manon Kumar Mandrai has been shifted to the state PCB headquarters here. The shifting of 337 tons of toxic waste, stored for nearly 40 years in the premises of the abandoned Union Carbide factory in Bhopal, to Pithampur disposal facility on January two had triggered violent protests in the industrial town, in which two men had attempted self-immolation.
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