The Manickapurampudur Common Effluent Treatment (CETP) has forwarded a requisition to the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) to allow the plant to operate and give sufficient time to erect reverse osmosis (RO) system to ensure zero liquid discharge in the dyeing effluent treatment process.

Tirupur, the textile knitwear hub of India discharges about 100 MLD of dyestuff effluents with high salt content and multi colored effluents from as early as 1990s. It flanks and pollutes the Noyyal river course rendering it as a virtual effluent course as rainfall is hardly for 15 days only in a year.

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.

A high-level committee under the textiles ministry is meeting on August 24 to take stock of the prevailing situation in Tirupur, Tamil Nadu.

After declaring 43 industrial areas in India as critically polluted and imposing a moratorium on their expansion, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests is going easy on them. As many as 23 critically polluted areas have been removed from the moratorium list since last October on the basis of inadequate action plans submitted by the respective states.

Leading renewable energy power company Orient Green Power Company (OGPL) has commissioned a 18.7 MW wind farm project at Gudimangalam in Tiruppur district of Tamil Nadu. With this new addition, OGPL now has an operating capacity of 172 MW of wind energy in Tamil Nadu making it the leading wind independent power producers (IPPs) in the state.

Even as state governments invest in social welfare measures, they are forced into constant competition with one another to attract private investments, offering a good “investment climate” that includes access to a low cost workforce and a physical infrastructure geared towards capital accumulation. The need to provision welfare within an accumulation regime premised on global competition, fiscal austerity and marketisation, and a simultaneous need to reduce labour costs and to ensure social security, to exclude and include labour appears paradoxical.

COIMBATORE: Kongunadu Munnetra Kazhagam (KNMK) has written to the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, seeking help to solve the issues that confront the Tirupur knitwear cluster.

The party president Best S.

Manmohan SinghPrime Minister Manmohan Singh has said a lasting solution would be found for the Tirupur knitwear industry, in trouble due to a court-ordered closure of all dyeing units for polluting the water sources in the region.

The industry has said the only permanent solution to solve the dye effluent problem is discharge of treated matter into the sea, a project needing Rs 1,000 crore.

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