An amount of Rs. 50 crore has been earmarked towards the implementation of a marine discharge project for treated effluents from dyeing and bleaching units, situated mostly in the western belt of the State.
Farmers demand adequate compensation for the affected at the grievances day meeting
Expressing deep disappointment over the inability of officials to stem the pollution rot plaguing rivers in the district, farmers demanded permanent steps to end pollution in water bodies and sought adequate compensation for affected farmers.
Dyeing hub faces reversal of fortunes, pollutes area
Dressed in a loincloth, a frail-looking 84-year-old AP Kandaswamy, who is a farmer and also the president of the Noyyal River Ayacutdars Protection Association, greets us with a glass of water from his well.
Environment department yesterday snapped utility connections of a dying factory and a spinning factory set up illegally in the protected Gazipur Bhawal National Forest for not paying the monetary p
The nomenclature of the committee itself had evoked the wrath of the farming community already as it comprised members of the same dyeing fraternity who had been the accused in the case filed by farmers on the pollution in River Noyyal which eventually led to the closure of dyeing units, and had no farmer representatives in it
It was alleged that dyeing units, which were facing effluent discharge problem in Tirupur, Erode and Pallipalayam had shifted their base to Dharmapuri district. Meanwhile, the Communist Party of India thanked the Collector for her prompt action on its demand to remove illegal dyeing industries.
An illegal garment dyeing unit at Terakanambi village. Even as the dyeing units are being set up in Terakanambi, Dollipura and Lokkanahalli of the district, the district administration and the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) are looking the other way.
The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) will give green signal to adoption of any specific technology for ensuring zero liquid discharge (ZLD) in dyeing effluent treatment process only after evaluating merits and demerits of ZLD procedures developed by various firms, according to TNPCB chairman C.V.Sankar.
