new delhi the scmandated pollution control board epca on wednesday decided that it will focus on reducing industrial pollution in ncr this year while lifting the severe and very poor category interventions under the graded response action plan grap in ncr epca at a meeting with authorities in ncr enquired what was being done to move industries to cleaner fuelsenvironment pollution control authority head bhure lal also pointed out that many polluting industries in delhi which had claimed to have moved to the outskirts or outside on paper continued to function within the city currently epca is working on identifying these nonconforming industriesepca had flagged the issue of these illegal industries at earlier meetings as well but the delhi environment department and delhi pollution control committee dpcc were unable to act against these units because of legal loopholes the officials who attended the meeting said they were aware about these industries in the nonconforming areas areas not meant for industrial activity according to the master plan but dpcc cannot shut them immediately as the law prescribes issuing of a notice first the notice would be as good as recognising them to be legal the officials said however bhure lal pointed out that you can always act against them under the provisions of the air act if an industry is polluting the air you have the right to seal it under the act irrespective of whether its in conforming or nonconforming areassm ali special secretary informed epca that the delhi government this year has managed to convince industrial associations to convert to png but mentioned nothing about their plans to deal with the ones working in nonconforming areas epca member sunita narain said hotspots like bhiwadi and ghaziabad remain extraordinarily polluted industries should be top priority for the central pollution control board cpcb and state pollution control boardsan official from ghaziabad informed epca that indraprastha gas limited was given a target in 2005 for connecting residential commercial industrial and other sectors to png only the industrial sector was reluctant which is why the target of 122 lakh standard cubic metres per daysdmd for 200809 was not met even till 201516 only 76000 sdmd was sourced to themindustries would either have to move to png or install expensive pollution control technologies to comply with the recent standards on sulphur oxides sox and oxides of nitrogen nox notified by the environment ministry bhure lal has already written to all chief secretaries of ncr including delhi on compliance with sc order banning the use of extremely polluting fuelspet coke and furnace oil and the sox and nox standards for 18 industrial categoriesthe ministry is in the process of finalising standards for five more industry categories including limekiln glass ceramic foundries and reheating furnaces as per information most industries have switched from pet coke to coal and from furnace oil to lshs low sulphur heavy stock liquid fuel being sold by refineries both coal and lshs have high pollution potential and therefore industries will