In the absence of any solutions for the issue of water and air pollution caused by the Sentini BioProducts Private Limited in their village, locals of Gandepalli in Kanchikacherla mandal of NTR district have decided to boycott the ongoing elections, if the factory is not sealed.
The factory, set up in 2008, continued functioning as a distillery with a production capacity of 125-kilo litre per day (KLPD) until it received environmental clearance for setting up a separate ethanol plant of 200 KLPD in April 2023.
While the company prides itself on being a contributor to the Central government’s Ethanol Blended Petrol (EBP) programme, launched in the country in 2003 to reduce dependency on fossil fuel, the process of manufacturing ethanol has itself been detrimental for the village.
