Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of P. G. Sethuram Vs State of Tamil Nadu dated 11/11/2021. Grievance in the application is against illegal operation of a stone crusher – Erode mines at survey No. 733/2, 734/2, Senapathipalayam village, Kangayam taluk, Tirupur district, Tamiil Nadu, on agricultural …
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. Closure order The CETP's director …
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 …
Dyeing hub faces reversal of fortunes, pollutes area Tiruppur :An 84-year old farmer’s court injunction has converted a booming export hub into a ghost town, causing exports to plummet and businesses to relocate. Dressed in a loincloth, a frail-looking 84-year-old AP Kandaswamy, who is a farmer and also the president …
A high-level committee under the textiles ministry is meeting on August 24 to take stock of the prevailing situation in Tirupur, Tamil Nadu. Over 700 textile units engaged mainly in dyeing and bleaching business have been shut since January 2010 on a Madras High Court order. The court ordered the …
Inordinate delay in issuance and execution of the order to seal the dyeing units caught operating illegally, despite a closure order by the Madras High Court, has raised doubts on the sincerity of officials in enforcing pollution control methods in the Tirupur knitwear cluster. Sealing Sealing of 21 dyeing/ bleaching …
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 …
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 …
There was a time when people living along the Noyyal river in Tamil Nadu would freshen up by swimming in the river. Now goatherds chase their flock away if they go near the river. The reason is the river water has turned toxic. The dyes and salts from the industrial …
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 …
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. Ramasamy said one lakh workers had lost their jobs and five lakh more were on the verge of losing work, …
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 …
A team from IIT-Madras studied its functioning before issuing a prima facie report. Garments manufactured using the new evaporator will help entrepreneurs fetch value-addition Tirupur: There is some heartening news for the problem-plagued dyeing industry here as full-fledged trial run of the eco-green evaporator conceived by NIFT-TEA College of Knitwear …
The workers covered under the purview of the scheme now will be drawing wages at Rs. 119 a day A section of society feels that the works assigned will be of no use Tirupur: The increase in the wages under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) that …
THE Madras High Court has ordered closure of more than 700 bleaching and dyeing units, and effluent treatment plants in Tirupur in Tamil Nadu. On January 28, the court also asked the state government to disconnect electricity supply to the units in the hosiery town that failed to comply with …
With no promising technology available to attain the zero-liquid discharge norms, the 740 dyeing units of Tirupur have mooted a desperate proposal to buy millions of litres of pure water from the municipal corporation of the city to dilute their industrial discharge before releasing into the river. The surprising plan …
Chennai: The Madras High Court on Monday declined to alter its order directing closure of all dyeing and bleaching units in the hosiery town of Tirupur for causing pollution despite its earlier directives. When Tamil Nadu pollution control board and Tirupur dyeing factory owners association made oral submissions seeking alteration …
Court Orders Closure Of All Units On Pollution Concerns, Move To Hit 50,000 Workers THE Madras High Court has ordered the closure of all dyeing and bleaching units in Tirupur, which generates a fifth of India
The high court here directed all bleaching and dyeing units in the textile hub of Tirupur in west-central Tamil Nadu to close with immediate effect. Friday
Trench will be dug to protect entire farms in Jallipatti: DFO Tirupur: The Forest Department officials held a liaison meeting with farmers from Jallipatti hamlet and areas near 9/6 check post on Udumalpet-Munnar stretch, on Tuesday, to discuss methods to reduce the frequent attack of wild animals on crops and …
