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Pollution
Tirupur dyeing industry seeks Jayalalithaa help
Our Bureau
Coimbatore
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June 28
THE dyeing units in Tirupur caught in the pollution tangle and strictures from the Madras High Court for letting effluents into the Noyyal river are looking to the Chief Minister, Ms J. Jayalalithaa, to bail them out.
With the next hearing of the public interest litigation involving the Tirupur dyeing industry slated to come up before the High Court on Wednesday, the Dyers Association of Tirupur (DAT) has shot off a letter to the Chief Minister seeking her immediate intervention.
The DAT President, Mr N. Kandaswamy, has urged her to come to the rescue of the dyeing industry by helping the latter to secure `minimum' time limit from the High Court for setting up the effluent treatment system to achieve `zero' discharging.
Since the dyeing industry is the backbone of the Tirupur knitwear industry, any dislocation to the industry would paralyse the region's industrial activity thereby affecting the livelihood of 10 lakh workers, Mr Kandaswamy said.
He maintained that since the situation was so alarming that a way out to tackle the discharge of treated effluent by the industry must be found at the earliest so as to allow the industry to run. To achieve this, the diversion of the treated effluent between Tirupur and Orathupalayam check dam could be made to raise social forestry in the fallow lands available along the Noyyal river course, he added.
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