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The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has appealed to the nationalist to observe Bhogi successful an environment-friendly manner, by avoiding the burning of plastics, tyres, and different hazardous materials.
In a property release, the TNPCB said Bhogi, celebrated connected the eve of the Pongal festival, was traditionally observed by discarding aged belongings arsenic a awesome of renewal and transformation. In earlier times, bonfires were lit utilizing earthy materials that did not origin biology pollution.
However, successful caller years, the signifier has changed, with discarded tyres, integrative goods, rubber tubes and chemically treated insubstantial being burnt connected that day.
The TNPCB said specified activities merchandise dense achromatic smoke, starring to terrible aerial pollution, wellness hazards specified arsenic oculus irritation and sneezing, and adjacent disruption to aerial and roadworthy postulation successful cities.
As portion of its monitoring efforts, the TNPCB volition behaviour ambient aerial prime surveys astatine 15 locations crossed Chennai for 24 hours connected the time earlier Bhogi, connected Bhogi, and the time after. The collected aerial prime information volition beryllium published connected the TNPCB website.
