Polluting units must move out: Jagmohan

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, NOV. 24. The Urban Development Minister, Mr. Jagmohan, today told the Lok Sabha that while he was willing to call a meeting of the local MPs, citizens and members of industry, the ``polluting units in the city would have to be relocated''.

Replying to a call attention motion moved by his party colleague and MP from Delhi, Mr. Madan Lal Khurana, Mr. Jagmohan stood his ground in the face of some hostile questioning from all sides. The issue of relocating industrial units away from residential areas has been the subject of considerable debate both inside and outside the House and this afternoon the Lok Sabha witnessed an animated discussion.

The Left and the RJD members staged a walk-out in protest. But Mr. Jagmohan refused to budge and appeared to have won the argument in the end, with some help from the former Prime Minister, Mr. Chandra Shekhar.

Mr. Chandra Shekhar told the members that calling the Minister names would not solve the problem. Delhi was becoming unmanageable as ``10,000 people were migrating to the city everyday''. The masterplan was not something that could be amended everyday, he said and chided Mr. Khurana for making provocative demands.

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