Trivandrum, June 9: Monitoring stations are proposed to be set up by the Kerala State Board for Prevention and Control of Water Pollution at representative sites in the major rivers of the State which are subject to massive pollution. Disclosing this in a talk with newsmen here to-day, Mr. N.S. Bhairavan, Board Chairman, said information gathered by the monitoring stations would help devise suitable control programmes for keeping the rivers clean.Mr. Bhairavan said the Board would be keeping a constant watch on the quality of the effluents discharged by the industries to ensure that they always conformed to the prescribed standards. There would be regular inspection of effluent treatment installations to see that they were maintained and operated efficiently. Regular sampling and analysis of the effluents would also be done.Mr. Bhairavan said the Board was determined to be in full and effective control of water pollution problems in the State in two years at the most.He said most of the industries had responded to the Board’s directions promptly and in a big way and achieved substantial progress in implementing a time-bound programme which, when completed, would render their effluents harmless. Gwalior Rayons (Calicut) had developed a new method for reducing the colour of the effluent using calcium hypochiorate. The Cochin division of FACT had, as an immediate measure, started neutralising the effluent, the sulphuric acid which was causing havoc to the paddy crop on the sides of the Chitrapuzha river and to the fish of the river. Published - June 10, 2026 03:15 am IST