RTI focused on companies

Hyderabad February 13: City is facing many problems mainly pollution which causing the greenhouse effect. Poisons gasses effecting the water, air which was releasing from the companies from the city outskirts.Right to Information (RTI) activist P Srinivas Rao, a resident of Qutbullapur, is facing heat from the city police.He was summoned by Jeedimetla police a week ago. He was made to sit at the station for two hours, two days after a task force from Telangana state pollution control board (TSPCB) inspected the premises of Kreative Organics (P) Ltd at Jeedimetla following his complaint.This despite the fact that TSPCB in its order issued November 11 had observed that the manufacturing plant did not lift any effluent treatment plant (ETF) sludge in the past 7 months from its premises.In fact, the TSPCB had also found that the plant too did not have a mechanism to dispose of boiler ash ­ a potential environmental hazard -but it intervened with the order only after the city based activist lodged a complaint with Central Pollution Control Board a month ago in October, 2016."I was summoned by the Jeedimetla police for no reason. This happened after I filed an application with TSPCB under RTI seeking copies of its previous orders issued respect to the manufacturing plant on January 11," recalled P Srinivas Rao. While efforts to contact C Shankar Reddy, Station House Officer (SHO) of Jeedimetla police station was futile, investigating officer V.Saidi Reddy did not respond when asked about the reasons for summoning the RTI activist to the police station. When contacted, D Narenr, environmental engineer, dar, environmental engineer, TSPCB and head of its rolling task force, said that they inspected the company s premises on February 4. "We went there after the complaint. We will soon submit a report to TSPCB," he said.