Three days after the deadline expired, a visit to Agra found the offending industry managers nonchalant and government officials entrusted with implementing the minister's diktat, almost bemused. "The industries are where they were. How do you close down factories that are already closed?" asked S.R. Sanchar, regional officer, Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board. Indeed, the guilty 104 units are closed, but that's because they haven't complied with an earlier Supreme Court order to install pollution control devices. But, if and when they do, these factories may reopen, like the 404 functioning ones which were originally identified as emitting "noxious and harmful" fumes in the direction of one of the Seven Wonders of the World. The latter rarely make use of their Air Pollution Control Systems (APCS). The fact is that pollution control in Agra is often a variable of bribery. The sulphur dioxide level in the city, meanwhile, has reportedly increased from 3.54 mg/m cu in 1982 to around 30 mg/m cu at present.