CASE 1 IT SMELLS LIKE MONEY
For more than thirty-five years, the Perfect Paper Mill had produced fine papers at its New India Mill. The mill was located in a small town of Gujarat. It employed about two hundred local workers. It was the only industry in the town. Most of the workers had spent their entire careers in the mill, and there was practically no hope of their getting good jobs elsewhere.
The mill heavily polluted the air around it with materials that had a distinctive, obnoxious odour. However, the town people never complained, claiming that after a couple of months one got used to the odour and did not even notice it. Besides, they said, “It smells like money.”
With the standards of permissible levels of air pollution becoming increasingly ...
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