Pollution Crisis in Meghalaya's Burnihat

What comes to mind when you hear the names of Assam and Meghalaya?

Cloud- covered mountains, crystal- clear rivers,

a paradise far away from pollution.

But right in the middle of this paradise,

there is a place where toxic smoke has taken the place of clouds.

According to data from Swiss agency IQAir and CREA,

today, the world's most polluted city is not Delhi or Lahore,

but Byrnihat in Meghalaya. When we were young, it was completely clean.

Ever since the factories came up, it has become dirty.

Byrnihat is like a warehouse of diseases.

Eco- friendly plants were set up here to produce ethanol with government

subsidies worth millions.

But when the smoke from this plant pushed Byrnihat's official AQI past 400,

the governments of Assam and Meghalaya blamed each other during the NGT

investigation. Anyway, in India,

highly polluting factories are deliberately set up on state borders,

Because industries know that jurisdictional loopholes mean zero accountability.

As long as the pollution boards of both states keep fighting,

these factories will keep making profits. According to the study by CSIR- NEERI,

the amount of smoke that Byrnihat's air can tolerate,

these factories are spewing four times that amount, nearly 25 tons of waste daily.

The very ethanol we claim to produce to clean the air of Delhi and Mumbai,

the chemicals from that same plant have turned the Umiam River here into a drain.

Government medical data itself shows that in the last two years,

respiratory illnesses here have increased by 76%,

and farmers are forced to wash their own grown vegetables that have turned black.

Brother, I just don't understand how the very ethanol that is ruining a city's air,

poisoning its water, and contaminating its fruits and vegetables,

Who is actually benefiting from that green energy? Share this video.

Maybe some system contractor will come and explain its logic in the comments.