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ERODE: Hundreds of textile traders along with dyeing and bleaching factory owners shut shops and factories on Friday to protest against rise in prices of yarn, TNPCB’s action against dyeing and bleaching units and also to demand State Government’s support in sea discharge of effluents. The members who met under the leadership of R. S. Nataraja Muthaliar, president, Erode Mavatta Anaithu Vaniga Sangangalin Kootamaippu, also staged a day-long fast in front of the Government Hospital, Erode. The members demand the Union and State governments to come forward to set up common effluent treatment plant to help small and tiny dyeing and bleaching units. They reasoned that following court orders and Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board action, many an industry had been pushed to verge of closure. To protect such industries and help the workers working therein, the governments should set up treatment plant and also execute the sea discharge project, in which the effluents will be directly taken to the sea. The factory owners condemned unannounced power cuts. They said in addition to the weekly power holiday, which here is on Wednesdays, the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board stopped power supply for about four hours a day almost everyday. Such undeclared power cuts affected powerloom, sizing, printing, bleaching, dyeing, calendaring and other allied industries, they pointed out and demanded that the Government ensure uninterrupted power supply to textile industries. Yarn pricesThe weavers said they wanted the Government to regulate yarn prices. The rise in prices, which they attributed to cotton export and online trade in cotton and yarn, affected the industries. They urged the Government to ban cotton export and online trade in the goods as well. The other issue that the traders and industrialists wanted the Government to implement was the city’s drinking water scheme. Since the water the Corporation draws from Cauvery was polluted, the Government, as promised by the Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi during inauguration of Erode Corporation, should lay pipelines from Mettur Dam to fulfil drinking water needs, the said. To solve issues related the textile industries, the members suggested setting up of a separate board that will meet every three months to solve issues and ensure smooth running of the trade.
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