CPCB Polluting Industry Categories

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CPCB has identified how many categories of industries as significantly polluting?

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CPCB has identified how many categories of industries as significantly polluting?

  1. Ten
  2. Thirteen
  3. Seventeen ✓ Correct
  4. Twenty-five
Explanation:
Correct Answer Explanation

CPCB has identified seventeen categories of industries (large and medium scale) as significantly polluting.

Key Points:
  • India is one of the ten most industrialised nations of the world.
  • This has brought unplanned urbanisation, pollution, risk of accidents.
  • State boards periodically inspect every industry to assess treatment measures.
Why Other Options Are Wrong
  • A, B, D: The correct number is seventeen categories.

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