| "It is still at a conceptual stage, we have looked at a few possible locations for the institute informally," said Sudip K Banerjee, chairman, West Bengal Pollution Control Board at a recent Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) meeting. |
| ADB will do a feasibility study on the project and hand it over to the board. |
| WBPCB has given orders for the closure of 250 companies in the state for various kinds of pollution till date in 2005. |
| Banerjee pointed out that besides ITC, no other company in the state had a publicly announced energy policy. |
| In cities like Hyderabad, companies competed with each other to announce successes in reducing energy consumption. |
| WBPCB was looking at proposals from entrepreneurs of other states for electricity generation from municipal solid waste. Three such units in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra are earning revenues of Rs 3000 per hour. |
| The Canadian International Development Agency had offered help for an assisted online system for waste exchange information, which would gradually lead to an open market for waste-related transactions. |
| A recent survey had identified some highly-polluting units in Kolkata, like the Kashipur power generating unit of CESC. Banerjee said WBPCB was trying to get sponge iron units to run their electrostatic precipitators and cooling towers at night to reduce pollution. |
| If precipitators and cooling towers were switched off, the plant should be shut down, and an interlocking device to do this was being developed. It would be installed and controlled by WBPCB, Banerjee explained. |
| Heavy fines would be imposed for flouting norms, he norms. The software for the product was being developed in conjunction with Tata Consultancy Service. |
| The board was also planning to install sensors in stacks with connectivity to generate alerts every time a factory's emissions exceeded fixed levels. He said this would make the practice of physically checking of stacks obsolete. |
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