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Idustrial Polution
Idustrial Polution
He says that in the 1970s, the state government was encouraging small-scale units in
the chemicals sector through financial incentives. “These industrial units came up in
huge numbers. But the government gave a very low priority to the environment.
This is why environmental problems cropped up in Gujarat,” says Trivedi.
Nowhere more so than in the nearly 400-km stretch between Vapi in southern
Gujarat and Vatva in northern Gujarat, called the golden corridor, an
industrialist’s dream come true. This stretch has become a hot bed of pollution. “In
the golden corridor, we have created a number of potential disasters similar to the
Bhopal gas tragedy. The time-bomb is ticking very
fast,” says Achyutbhai Yagnik, secretary of Setu, an
Ahmedabad-based ngo. Another example of an env