A fitting tribute to India's pollution control boards on their 25th anniversary would be subsume them under environment protection agencies. This is not to belittle the boards - inadequate as their performance has been - but to emphasise that protection of the environment today goes far beyond control of water and air pollution a quarter of a century ago.
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