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Monitor operations of CETPs on a daily basis

R. Vimal Kumar

For a clean city: A scientific team constituted by Kongunadu Munnetra Peravai in Tirupur to study the problems of effluent discharge.

Tirupur: A technical committee constituted by the newly-formed political party Kongunadu Munnetra Peravai to study effluent water management in Tirupur, has come out with its report on Monday.

The expert team comprising professors of Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M), Chennai, and Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, and chemical engineers, suggests the formulation of a contingency plan to make all the 20 Common Effluent Treatment Plants (CETPs) in the city functional as quickly as possible.

The document asks the dyeing unit fraternity to form a separate committee with a technical person as its chairman to monitor the operations of CETPs on a daily basis. K. Balasubramanian, state treasurer and the party’s candidate from Tirupur, told The Hindu that the objective of the study was to understand the actual problems in effluent discharge and how it could be solved effectively.

The paper, which stated that pollution levels are high in Tirupur owing to effluent discharge from dyeing units, has come down heavily on Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board for the present situation.

According to the experts, TNPCB should have played a tutors role in educating the dyeing units and assisted them on standardisation of effluent treatment methodologies rather than been confined to policing the units.

Subsidy

The team also highlighted the need for releasing subsidy to the dyeing units involved in setting up 20 CETPs recently at a cost of Rs. 802 crore, to offset the capital expenditure.

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