India, Aug. 18 -- Remediation activities have been initiated at seven of the 103 contaminated sites identified by the Central Pollution Control Board across the country, the union environment ministry told the Lok Sabha on Monday.

Minister of state for environment Kirti Vardhan Singh said the government had notified the rules for identification and management of contaminated sites on July 24 and that the Environment Protection (Management of Contaminated Sites) Rules, 2025 listed the process for identification and remediation of contaminated sites.

The seven sites where remediation has started are: mercury contaminated sites at Odisha's Ganjam district; chromium contaminated sites at Rania, in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur Rural; mercury conta...