hyderabad its a daily battle for healthy existence that close to five lakh hyderabadis shrouded under a thick blanket of poisonous gases are fighting at the moment the lives of residents of miyapur bachupally and nizampet have become a living hell with most of them forced to stay indoors or face health complications such as bronchitis allergic asthma acute skin diseases and even tuberculosis this courtesy a cluster of industrial units in areas such as ida bollaram gaddi pocharam dundigal and jeedimetla that have been polluting the air unabashedly since 2010while protests relay hunger strikes and repeated representations to the pollution control boards state and centre and the ministry of environment forest and climate change moefcc have brought some relief the situation is still critical rue residents while hinting at a nexus between authorities and industry biggiesfed up members of the bachupallybased hill county villa owners association recently dashed off a letter to prakash javadekar minister of state moefcc seeking immediate intervention the letter states these industries obviously do not comply to the pollution norms and the controlling officers do not enforce the rules strictly resulting in this situationthe h2s content of gases released by these errant industries is found to be 123 times higher than the threshold value 8 ugm3 as against 065 ugm3 referring to their previous correspondence with the ministry residents narrated how despite strict orders of the moefcc the telangana state pollution control board tspcb has failed to submit its action taken report to them it is awaited since 2014 the letter signed by the association president ratna gopal addsthe delay in any kind of action has led to hopelessness among residents i moved to this part of town three years ago but due to the pollution i am now considering shifting to some other locality the pungent smell gives us severe headache my son has now been detected with asthma due to the foul smell i have to take extra precautions so that my family remains safe i have knocked on every door to register my complaint including the chief ministers helpline but nothing has changed said a distraught veena k software engineer and resident of miyapurat a distance in nizampet village it firm consultant p nandkishore is caught in a similar situation since we moved here about eight months ago we have been forced to live with the foul smell of gases released by the industries even on the 12th floor the smell is so strong that it makes breathing difficult he saidin the last six months residents complain they have had as many as 37 sleepless nights thanks to the discharge of dangerous gases some add with heavy irony how this is slightly better than being awake every night as was the case until a few months agothe industries release gases early in the morning or in the evening we have been fighting for this cause since years now however our requests seem to be falling on deaf years officials from the pollution