বিপন্ন পরিবেশ: বিপর্যস্ত জনজীবন সংকটে দুর্গাপুর শিল্পাঞ্চলএকটি সমীক্ষা
Volume-XII, Issue-III, April 2024
Volume-XII, Issue-III, April 2024 | ||
Published Online: 30.04.2024 | Page No: 85-93 | |||
বিপন্ন
পরিবেশ: বিপর্যস্ত জনজীবন সংকটে দুর্গাপুর শিল্পাঞ্চলএকটি সমীক্ষা
রাজশ্রী দত্ত, সহকারী
অধ্যাপিকা, ইতিহাস
বিভাগ, আচার্য
ব্রজেন্দ্রনাথ শীল সরকারি মহাবিদ্যালয়, কোচবিহার, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ, ভারত | |
Endangered Environment and Distressed Life: A Study of the Durgapur Industrial Area Rajshree Dutta, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Acharya Brojendranath Seal Government College, Cooch Behar, West Bengal, India. | |
In the Burdwan district of West Bengal, especially Durgapur- Asansol industrial area, some new factories have been established, in the iron and steel sector. Since the beginning of the 1991's to 2001, a large number of sponge-iron and ferro-alloy manufacturing factories have mushroomed here. We know that development brings prosperity and the economists chart the time of development according to statistics. However, no one measures the decline in human lifespan caused by uncontrolled pollution from these industries. The light of industrialization darkens the environment and endangers the basis of social life and human values. This will be the focus of this article. This study was conducted in the Durgapur industrial complex of west Bengal, India (ward no. 37, under the Durgapur Municipal Corporation area). There are many industries that are continuously spewing smoke and harmful gases in the air that create problems for the human health and damage the natural environment. The polluted environment has created a barrier in the production and consumption effort of the inhabitants of this area. It has also created a barrier in the economic and disease-free lifestyle of the inhabitants. It has degraded the quality of land, water and air and taken away the human rights and constitutionally guaranteed rights over these. In this article we will try to understand how the social and human values are degraded with this pollution. The study is based on primary and secondary data which have been collected from various books, different journal, article, website etc. Some acquired through interviews of local people and some collected from various government documents and magazines. I had to depend on direct evidence to evaluate the effect of factories on the environment. | |
Keywords: Durgapur, Industrial pollution, endangered environment, sponge-iron and ferro-alloy factories, social and mental health, ADDA, Polution Control Board. |