‘Initiate criminal action against those running such units'
After a brief lull, the menace of illegal dyeing units has resurfaced in the Tirupur-Namakkal belt. The units have come up even after the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board carried out an extensive demolition drive a few months ago.
The district administration has again drawn flak from farmers for its inordinate delay in sealing dyeing units found illegally operating in the district.
Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) sources told The Hindu that 33 erring dyeing units were yet to be sealed even though TNPCB head office had given a directive to the District Collector to do so more than a month ago.
Bleaching unit owners here have come up with a demand that the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board should not insist upon them to implement the zero liquid discharge (ZLD) norms as no salts or hazardous chemicals were used in the bleaching process.
The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board has caught 14 small scale dyeing/bleaching units for unauthorised operations during surprise raids conducted in Tirupur knitwear cluster over the last few days ending on Wednesday.
“Our main objective of adding 20 more clubs in a single fiscal to the existing strength of 39 clubs is to provide a package for effective transfer of technology from laboratories to the fields to a larger section of farming community as the emerging needs in agriculture sector now are the adoption of location specific skill and knowledge,” NABARD Assistant General Manager V.S. Sriram told The Hindu .
The panel was formed following crisis in the cluster because of the closure of dyeing units by the Madras High Court for causing pollution to River Noyyal despite the earlier court orders asking the units to follow zero liquid discharge (ZLD) norms strictly.
Level of Total Dissolved Solids has begun to surge
Tirupur: Farmers on the banks of the River Noyyal, affected by the discharge of dyeing effluents for almost two decades till the Madras High Court ordered closure of all dyeing units in Tirupur cluster for violation of pollution norms, look worried again.
Not ready for any compromise with dyers
Stance conveyed to government Tirupur: Farmers living alongside River Noyyal, who faced the brunt of the indiscriminate effluent discharge from dyeing units, are firm on their decision that they would not be ready for any compromise with dyers other than ensuring of zero liquid discharge (ZLD).
Tirupur: Farmers dependent on the Amaravathy river irrigation systems have appealed to the State government seeking enhancement of irrigation infrastructure for augmenting agriculture production in Tirupur, Coimbatore and Karur districts.
Lingam Chinnasamy, general secretary of Amaravathy Nathineer Pasanai Pathukkappu Iyyakkam, pointed out that desilting had not been carried out in Amaravathy d
