Business Ethics and Corporate Governance, Second Edition

INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION

India’s Toxic Corridor

Most of the developing countries suffer from numerous environmental problems and India is no exception. The country’s forest cover has been vastly depleted, water bodies poisoned in and around industrial towns, tanneries and textile units, and air is badly polluted in towns and cities. In our zest to quicken the pace of industrial development, we have ignored the need to put in place measures that would safeguard the ecology and environment.

The road from Ahmedabad to Mumbai runs through what the rulers of Gujarat proudly refer to as the ‘Golden Corridor’ of chemical industries. Others know it as the armpit of industrial civilization in India as the cancer corridor or the toxic corridor.

At least 2,000 ...