TRAI has come up with a ruling which limits the maximum cable rental that can be charged per month. you can get the news here. Hope this brings some sanity to the whole business wherein rentals used to be fixed on an arbitrary basis.
October 5, 2007
September 14, 2007
High Lead content in Paints available in india
A recent study by Toxics Link claims that the lead content of paints available in India is dangerously high. Here is the article which came up in The Hindu.
To quote:-
“The tests show alarming levels of lead in enamel paints (with a gloss finish) and this holds true for most of the paints available in the market. Of the 31 enamel paint sample analysed for lead concentration, 83.87 per cent had more than 600 parts per million (PPM) of lead and only 19.1 per cent had less than 600 PPM presence of the heavy metal.”
However it is not a surprising factor in the sense that there is no regulatory framework to ensure that the lead content doesn’t beyond a prescribed limit. The only factor is that Paint Manufacturers are encouraged to conform to the 1000 PPM(Parts Per Million) limit as suggested by BIS(Bureau Of Indian Standards). It is high time that this is converted to a mandatory, rather than a voluntary regulation.
