Collector M V Reddy calls for action plan to check pollution

Medchal: District Collector M V Reddy said here on Thursday that the lives of people were affected by pollution and that all officials should prepare an action plan to check it.

He said that a district-level committee has been constituted as per the directive of the National Green Tribunal, with DRO Madhukar Reddy as the nodal officer and Pollution Control Board EE as the convener.

Reddy directed that the committee to meet once in 15 days and the district officials undertake a review meeting on the first and third Mondays of a month with the National Green Tribunal. The minutes of the meeting would be sent the State Chief Secretary. For this purpose, the officials should prepare an action programme, he added.

The Collector asked the DPO to take steps in making Medchal villages as models, as was done in the case of BoduppaI as a model municipality. He directed the officials to prepare an action plan in view of the meeting on July 15.