Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board (CECB)'s chief engineer RP Tiwari said, "Online monitoring equipment have been installed in 45 industries in and around Raipur. As many as 137 industrial units across Chhattisgarh have now got such online monitoring facility as per the pollution control guidelines issued by the Central Board."

Majority of industries in Raipur are steel, power and other seventeen types of heavy polluting industries, which emit smoke and add to air pollution.

Tiwari said that the online device is connected with chimney's emission system hence indicates the emission of various gases in the environment. A common server for online pollution monitoring system is yet to be developed and would take another few months and this would assimilate the reading of emission of gases and pollution of the entire industries equipped with online pollution-check device.

Now, the data of emission of gases are collected manually and a control room is yet to be launched to streamline the monitoring of all devices installed in industries across Chhattisgarh. This would immediately send the alert, warning and notice to the industrialists to check causes of emission of pollutants.

This online device cannot manipulate the pollution level readings, hence, would create constant pressure on industrialists. Mansoor Ali, general manager of private power industry, said, "This system alerts us to keep a tab and control emission of pollutants. It has also instilled a sense of environmental conservation the environment besides generating business out of industry."

CECB member secretary Devendra Singh appealed industrialists to plant 1,000 saplings in a recently convened meeting. The department also took the decision to launch a helpline number to lodge complaints regarding violation of noise and air pollution standards.