Nema should do more to stem pollution

From the discharge of industrial effluent into rivers, poor waste disposal, open garbage mounds, plastic bags and bottles to the release of industrial smoke into the atmosphere; the threat of pollution is a present danger.

There has been a surge in cancer cases that, at a cursory glance, would seem unexplainable, yet the answers have always been with us. Unlicensed, unregulated factories that have over the years bribed unscrupulous Government officials to operate quietly in the background, have greatly contributed to the pollution of rivers in towns housing industries.