SUNDAY, 03 JUNE 2012
23:12
PNS | BHUBANESWAR
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Asbestos is one of the toxic and carcinogenic materials. In view
of its proximity to cause harm, most of the countries are slowly phasing out.
In developed nations these materials are already banned. Though these materials
are still in use in some old buildings, slowly it is being replaced with new
materials, pointed out a non-resident Odia expert.
It is very unfortunate that such a
plant is being proposed and established in Bargarh region of Odisha, rued Prof
Digambara Patra of the Department of Chemistry in American University of
Beirut.
In a letter to Chief Minister Naveen
Patnaik, the NRO professor has urged for the scrapping of the asbestos project
in Bargarh.
The most misery for asbestos plant is
for the workers who work in such plants. In a poor State like Odisha, once the
materials are cheaply available, common people start using it without bothering
about environment and health risk associated with it.
Therefore, care must be given not to
popularise such toxic materials among poor population, a first step towards it
will be to stop the production, he said.
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