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Mangalore is the top industrial polluter in the state -surprised? Yes it is true and it was told by none other Mr. Krishna Palemar minister for Environment and ecology. He told this to the presspersons after inaugurating the Karavali-Pilikula fair in the city on Tuesday.

He said despite the city having only five mega industries in the outskirts one of them was polluting more which has put Mangalore on top of the chart of polluting cities in the state. A central government has sent report of the environmental pollution status in Karnataka, which indicated that the environmental pollution was more in Mangalore. He said he has already told the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) to determine as to which of the four industries were polluting and if the company did not comply with the environmental norms it should be closed down. The five mega industries were MRPL, BASF, MCF and Kudremukh Iron ore. We do not know which one was more polluting he added.

He said it was intriguing how Mangalore’s four industries were polluting as much as or even more than the 3200 industries that Bangalore had. He said the secretary of the environmental department was from Mangalore, the scientists in the KSPCB were from Mangalore and the state minister for environment was also from Mangalore and Mangalore was the top polluting city in the state. It was a sad state of affairs but I am determined to stop this he added.