The number of hazardous industries and the waste they generate have gone up between 2019–20 and 2020–21. There is also a glaring data gap with the state pollution control boards of only four northeastern states—Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Sikkim, and Tripura—receiving annual numbers from all their industries
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