Brick kiln owners asked to switch to eco-friendly zigzag technology

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State Pollution Control Board (PCB) has asked the brick kilns owners operating in Srinagar and Jammu cities to switch over from the traditional bull trench technology to eco-friendly zigzag technology within a year. According to an official spokesperson the direction were passed by the chairman PCB Ravi Kumar Kesar Wednesday during a meeting with members of Brick Kiln Association, Jammu Division here. There are 550 Brick Kilns functioning in state and 99 percent of them are using old bull trench technology and the conventional biomass and firewood as fuel.