MSEDCL cuts power of five industrial units
The Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) has terminated power supply to five industrial units in Ichalkaranji and surrounding areas following the directives of the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB). MPCB officials said that the decision was taken after these units failed to comply with the MPCB’s industrial sewage treatment norms, resulting in pollution of the Panchganga river.Sachin Akiwate, deputy executive engineer, Ichalkaranji rural unit of the MSEDCL, told TOI that these type of actions are regularly taken every year. “When these industrial units discharge untreated water into the river, it causes pollution affecting water bodies and fishes in it. There have been several instances when one could.....