The Tamil Nadu pollution control board (TNPCB) officials demolished a dyeing unit in Chellandipalayam locality in Karur district on Tuesday morning as it was found to be running without a treatment

Though several projects have been started to clean the Budha Nullah, the polluted drain continues to be a health hazard.

Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has slapped closure notices on eight textile dyeing and printing units in Sachin, Pandesara, Kim and Palsana near here for violating air and water pollution n

Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has slapped closure notices on eight textile dyeing and printing units in Sachin, Pandesara, Kim and Palsana near here for violating air and water pollution norms on Friday.

Official sources said around 37 textile dyeing and printing units have been issued closure notices for violating air pollution norms in the last one-and-a-halfmonth period. None of the mill owners has given an undertaking and explanation report to the GPCB.

The High Court yesterday sought a report on how many effluent treatment plants (ETP) have been established by industrial organisations in greater Dhaka, Gazipur, Savar and Tangail since 1996.

Officials of the Punjab Pollution Control Board have raided 27 dyeing industries of Ludhiana in the past 3 days to check if these were complying with the pollution norms.

The Department of Environment (DoE) on Tuesday fined a washing and dying factory in Narayanganj Tk 11 lakh for polluting the water of the Dhaleshwari River, reports UNB.

Being a textile belt, Tirupur (Tamil Nadu) faced the crisis of severe pollution of water bodies due to discharged coloured effluent from the bleaching and dyeing units.

Farmers of Punnam happy over decision to drop dyeing park plan

The public of Punnam are ecstatic at the shelving of the plan to establish an integrated dyeing park in their neighbourhood. At the same time, home textile exporters and professional dyers in the town are dejected that their painstaking effort, kept under wraps for a long time, to establish the facility has come to a naught.

Most of these units run on diesel generator sets.