Waste liquid material from chemical and pesticide factories in Mandhor village, close to the city, has started polluting the village handpumps. A few villagers met officials of the Haryana pollution Control Board at Panchayat Bhawan today. The chairman of the board addressed a meeting of panches and sarpanches on the precautions to be taken to check pollution in their villages. The Haryana government had declared this village industrially backward a few years back. Later, several industries were set up here but the industrial department and the Pollution Control Board did not make any arrangements for disposing of the liquid waste of the factories. A resident of the village, Karnail Singh, who met officials of Pollution Control Board and the district administration a number of times, said underground water was getting polluted by chemical waste. The water from handpumps had become unfit for consumption. Another resident of the village, Mehtab Singh, said waste liquid from some of the factories was drained into the village nullah, polluting the village pond. A doctors in the village, Paramjit Singh, said the polluted water was causing asthma among the villagers. He said the administration should set up a treatment plant for the sake of villagers