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NEGATIVE
OFFSHOOT
A negative offshoot of all this growth was that several grossly polluted
areas came like Patancheru, Bolaram, Katedan, Azamabad etc. in Hyderabad
and a few in Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada too.
A growth trend noticed in the last two decades shows that highly polluting
varieties of industries have shown the highest investments, as also returns.
Located mostly in the state's 240 industrial estates, the polluting industries
contribute to each other's air and waterpollution loads, vitiating the
concept of 'growth-centre' development that they were originally meant
to achieve. Instead, the combined pollution load renders them ecologically
dead 'brownsites' unusable for any other productive activity except, perhaps,
waste-disposal.
Among the different industries, those manufacturing fertilisers, pharmaceuticals,
bulk drugs, pesticides, dye and dye intermediaries, textiles, paper &
pulp, sugar, apart from the thermal power plants, are the ones causing
critical air and water pollution. In our state, the major defaulting units
are the bulk drug, chemical dye and dye intermediates producing units
apart from distilleries and paper and pulp industry.
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