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NEW DELHI, OCT. 14. "It seems that it is raining rockets all over the country. Already, ten people have been killed in the blast that occurred in Ghaziabad and almost on a daily basis such stockpiles of deadly rockets, missiles, live and spent ammunitions are surfacing with alarming frequency in the major metros and towns of India,'' said advocate Delep Goswami at a seminar on "Court Rulings and Current Issues on Industrial Pollution Control'' organised by Society for Development of Environmental Laws and Management in the city today. Speaking about the danger this posed, he added: "They are dangerous not only for the factory workers but even the residential areas where some of them have been dumped in fear of being detected by the police and investigating teams. From the discoveries over the past few days it seems that the entire steel and scrap industry has been sitting on a huge pile of live and dead explosives and that the entire country has suddenly become a large landmine ''. Holding the Customs department responsible, Mr. Goswami stated that the Customs authorities had obviously not carefully examined the scrap when it came into the country. "According to steel merchants, such scrap comes cheaper even though there may be some risks involved in working with it. If for instance, scrap from the ruins of the World Trade Centre was purchased today, its landed cost in India would be about 190 US dollar per metric tonne but as against that, the war scrap would cost only about 150 US dollars per metric tonne,'' he said. The need for a national environment policy and a centralised nodal agency for speeding up of reforms in environment related justice delivery system and the need for district level environment enforcement tribunals or courts was also discussed at the seminar. Emphasis was also placed on the urgent need for curbing of import of waste from the industrialised Western countries into India in the garb of "recycling''. The side effects of environment pollution on the health of workers were also highlighted.
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