Factory Shut-down : Pollution chokes business!

• A wax-setting factory at Hooghly’s Haripal was shut on Thursday after 200 people protested growing air pollution due to the factory

• Locals complained of breathlessness, nausea, cough and other ailments. They alleged that smoke from the factory not only polluted the air around Naikhal but also the area adjoining Borgachia

• When the administration asked the factory to show its approvals, he was unable to share the same. The BDO then declared the factory shut