Ahmedabad: If you are feeling blue about pollution, trips to the Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation Vatva Estate will provoke tears at sight grabbing hue humans and animals.
Dye manufacturing unit in the area has changed some of the population has become an alarming caricature Smurf world, famous Belgian comic series because the characters are brightly colored.
But in patches Vatva, cyclists trump-orange and blue dog is not a product of Banign Creative Flourish but the result of red-hot work hazards in industrial units that produce chemicals, dyestuffs and pigments.
Monkeys and squirrels have also been painted abnormally after a brush with these units.
Plantation Vatva Gujarat Industrial Development (GIDC) spread over about 527 hectares and holds more than 2,500 industrial units in four phases.
The estate is part of the AMC.
Industrial units based here also produces chemicals, textiles, plastics, rubber, food, and pharmaceuticals.
Estate also accommodates units and engineering techniques.
A security guard at one dyestuff manufacturing units said that many animals here turns blue and green chemicals.
“Dogs and monkeys were fed by the workers so that they continue to enter the premises and contact with chemicals spilled,” the guard said.
“When the workers out of the factories, they were seen in all colors including bright yellow, orange, and blue.” The dye itself, more than 1,000 units in Vatva GIDC make a range of them, reactive dyes, direct dyes, disperse dyes, acid dyes and dyes intermediaries.
Senior A GPCB (Gujarat Pollution Control Board), which has been monitoring the coloring unit Vatva GIDC say that the reactive dyes are responsible for memulurkan humans and animals with a strange color.
This dye is made of fine particles that stick to the skin or clothing if proper protective gear is not worn, the official said.
“A large number of mills are small and medium sized unit with a work area not more than 500 square meters,” the official said.
“In such circumstances, the workers wear protective gear to avoid the heat.” The official went on to say: “Despite several warnings from the Department of Industrial Safety and Health, Labor Parit Protective Gear.
The factory owner did not intervene.” Shadow cast for resistance Vatva faunathe to use teeth similar to a general reluctance to wear masks during a pandemic, officials said that.
The majority of export unit dyes and dyes intermediaries them to the US, Turkey, Bangladesh, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brazil.
Every day, approximately 16,000 cubic meters of treated effluent from dyeing units by GIDC, which employs nearly 1.6 lakh workers.
“Most of the units strictly follows all the guidelines prescribed by the National Green Tribunal and GPCB.
However, occasional spillage during transport can occur in some units,” said Yogesh Parikh, president, Gujarat Dyestuff Manufacturers Association (GDMA).
Parikh added: “We continue to advise the unit on the handling of the pigment and the right chemicals.”