Fifteen textile processing units that were closed for violation of rules, were found being operated once again and dumping huge amount of untreated effluents in water sources near Bhavani. The units were sealed again on Wednesday.

Following widespread complaints from the public, a team of officials from revenue department and Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) conducted surprise checks in Bhavani, Servarayanpalayam and Kalingarayanpalayam areas. The officials found 15 units, which were sealed by them a year ago, functioning once again. Of them, four units in Servarayanpalayam were found using generators.

A team of officials from Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) demolished 11 unauthorised textile processing units in Erode town and its suburbs on Tuesday.

The units were found functioning in Rasampalayam, SSP Nagar, and Kongampalayam and dumping huge amount of untreated, toxic effluents in the water sources.

‘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 Department of Environment (DoE) fined the owners of two dyeing factories Tk 28.5 lakh in Narayanganj yesterday on charge of polluting the Shitalakkha river by dumping chemical mixed waste.

The second channel of the Buriganga, which flows through the southwestern part of the capital, is almost dead due to wholesale encroachment by public and private organisations and also dumping of w

Drive begins in Salem; continues in Namakkal. Three dyeing units in Salem were demolished by Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) and Revenue officials on Thursday.

TNPCB officials said that based on information that unauthorised units were functioning in Sevapet, Neikkarapatti and Uthama Solapuram, officials raided the units and found three winches in each unit.

A team of Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board personnel on Wednesday removed nine illegal dyeing units that were polluting River Cauvery near Pallipalayam in Tiruchengode Taluk.

The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined a textile dyeing industry Tk 65 lakh and sealed off it for releasing untreated chemical and waste into the river Shitalakkha at Shiddhirganj in N

The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has demolished a total of 11 textile processing units operated illegally in different parts of the Erode block during the last seven days.

The board, along with the Revenue Department, re-launched the drive against the polluting textile processing and tannery units in the district following widespread complaints from the farmers and residents on the increasing levels of pollution in water sources.

New Delhi: Ali Husain Ansari, a weaver of embroidered Mughal textiles and owner of Abdul Ghani Silk in Varanasi town of northern India, says he has not benefited from the government’s financial package for weavers announced in December 2011.

“All the money sanctioned by the government has gone to cooperative societies. The poor weaver still makes less than Rs.200 ($4) a day and does not have enough assets for loan guarantee,” Ali told IANS at an event here.