Vapi`s industries use lockdown as a licence to pollute, the Damanganga be damned
(WorldNews Environment)

Industries in Vapi, Gujarat, which continue to release huge quantities of effluents into the Damanganga river, are seeking exemption from pollution control norms citing economic losses following the lockdown. While travelling by road or rail, there is no mistaking the industrial town of Vapi in Gujarat as it approaches. The nostril-stinging vapours from a cocktail of chemicals make the eyes water and breathing a bit painful. High air and water pollution levels have become so integral to this industrial town that it is commonly referred to as the armpit of India. Vapi lies at the southern end of what is known as the Golden Corridor of India—a 432-kilometre-long stretch that ends at Mehsana in...