Local Residents Confront Pollution Officials

It has come to light that Pollution Control Board officials were locked up.

Villagers had locked up the officials for six hours. Villagers of Arjunwad in

Kolhapur were seen getting aggressive. These officials were

detained for ignoring river pollution. The issue of river pollution is

becoming serious in Kolhapur district. Kolhapur Pollution Board officials

were locked up for not paying attention to river

pollution. An important news from Kolhapur.

Kolhapur Pollution Board officials have been locked up. Villagers locked up

the officials for six hours. Villagers of Arjunwad in Kolhapur became aggressive.

These officials were detained,

accusing them of ignoring river pollution.

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noise] And to speak more on this,

our representative Pratap Naik is with us.

Pratap, the Pollution Control Board officials were held captive.

How did the situation calm down after that? How were the villagers pacified?

We are seeing that in many areas from the origin of Panchaganga to its confluence,

the river villages and cities are experiencing large- scale pollution.

Similar pollution was seen in the Arjunwad river area. The villagers

repeatedly raised objections and wrote letters regarding this, yet, the Pollution

Control Board officials took no action other than collecting samples.

That is why we see that the angry villagers,

protesting the water coming from Aquatech Industry and going into the river,

locked up the officials for as long as six hours. Currently, that officer has

been released.

But overall, we see that such an incident had occurred in this area before,

and some officers were tied up. Actually, we see that it is the

duty of the Pollution Control Board to take action against the polluting elements.

But instead of taking strict action... ... only samples are taken, and after that,

no action of any kind is taken. That is why we see that the villagers have

become highly aggressive here. Indeed, Pratap, thank you for the detailed

information.