nagpur following repeated complaints by city activist kanakrai savadia the prime ministers office pmo has directed chief secretary to take appropriate action against violation of pollution control norms by meat processing units and maharashtra pollution control boards mpcb irregularities in monitoring themin the last two years savadia who is also a member of state animal welfare board wrote several letters to mpcb and central pollution control board cpcb regarding implementation of apex court and national green tribunals ngt directives on amending the boards consent application for meat processing unitsthe tribunal had observed that the conditions mentioned in the boards consent form were not up to the mark and directed the mpcb to review the consent conditions it also made it mandatory for units to keep a record of source of meat obtained from market and asked mpcb officials to regularly inspect it savadia stated he added that mpcb did not comply these directives of the green court while hearing a writ petition few years back the supreme court had directed all states to form a slaughter house committee but maharashtra does not have one savadia saidfollowing mpcbs inaction savadia wrote to prime minister narendra modi on june 1 pointing out the environmental and public health threats from meat processing units it has been observed that the industries are not maintaining pollution control system the waste material generated in the process of deboning of meat is sent back to the supplier and this is against the guidelines of pollution control board waste generated from such units is biological waste and must be disposed as per the pollution norms savadia saidhe added that the blood stained water is released in the storm water outlet without any treatment posing a serious health risk