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An effort has been undertaken to identify the polluting industries existing in Calcutta Metropolitan Area (CMA) and to estimate the cost of organizing these industries by relocating new area having scope of infrastructural facility to combat pollution or to do same by using pollution control device at the existing location. As many a 15(fifteen) industrial activities in the area have been identified out as polluting industry on an indicative basis. The identified areas are:

1. Foundry
2. Re-rolling mill
3. Paints & Varnish
4. Pigments
5. Acid manufacturing and formulation
6. Pesticide formulation
7. Storage battery
8. Antimonial Lead (non-ferrous foundry – Raw material for battery plate).
9. Drugs and pharmaceuticals
10. Coal briquette
11. Rubber molding with boiler
12. Galvanizing
13. Anodizing
14. Electroplating
15. Engineering fabrication and light engineering

1. Total polluting industries (SSI) registered under above group (Leather is not considered here for the reason that a separate complex is under consideration for that group)
2. There are polluting industries existing in cluster or scattered over CMA in sizeable quantity. These are as follows:-

Districts	Number of Units
Howrah	4375
Hooghly	577
North 24-Parganas	1205
South 24-Parganas	211
Calcutta	1096
Nadia (Kalyani)	73
Total	7537

Foundry, Re-rolling mills, Paints & varnish, Storage battery and Antimonial lead, Coal briquette, Rubber molding, Drugs and pharmaceuticals. Acid manufacturing and formulations and anodizing, galvanizing and electroplating.

Some ideas of relocation of areas for such group come to ones mind because of their typical existence in particular locations.

3. There are almost 4989 engineering fabrication and light engineering units in CMA. The distribution of such units are shown herein below:-

All the polluting group of industries has been considered for relocation of land where the cost of infrastructure depending on the cluster of industries existing has been worked out approximately. But in case of industries like electroplating, anodizing and galvanizing the main idea should be for arranging pollution control method and devices to combat pollution rather than relocation of land as the constitution of these industries are financially very week. Similarly for engineering fabrication and allied engineering group the CMA has got almost 4989 such units distributed in all the areas. However, such units are existing mostly in Howrah followed by North 24 Parganas, Calcutta, Hoogly, South 24 Parganas and Kalyani. It is not perhaps cogent to think of relocating some plot of land to such big group of industries. A separate action plan is being prepared for assessing the modernization and pollution control need of such group industries.