For polluting environment:Revenue officials taking steps to shut down a dyeing unit for violation of rules in Erode on Thursday.
ERODE: The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) and revenue officials shut down a total of 15 textile processing units, which are found polluting the environment, in the last two days.
The board had identified 35 dyeing and textile processing units which were not having a proper effluent treatment plant to treat the waste water. The units were found discharging the effluents into water carrying channels without treating it.
The board had already served notices on the units asking them to establish treatment plants immediately. As the units had not responded, the board had disconnected the electricity connection through the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board.
Officials from the TNPCB and revenue department visited a total of 15 units and shut down their operations on Wednesday and Thursday.
The officials said that the remaining units would also be shut down within this week.
The action was initiated following widespread complaints from farmers that a number of textile processing units were discharging untreated effluents into the Cauvery and irrigation channels, polluting the environment.
A number of irrigation channels particularly the Kalingarayan Canal were polluted following discharge of untreated waste water into them, the farmers said.
“Many of us depending on Kalingarayan Canal for irrigation are gradually leaving agriculture in search of better jobs. The soil is fast becoming unproductive due to unmindful discharge of effluents into the canal,” the farmers alleged.
The farmers wanted the government to look into the issue seriously and shut down all the units polluting the water carrying channels and save agriculture in the district.
11 June, 2010 by admin