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Foundries seek exemption

By Our Staff Reporter

COIMBATORE, SEPT. 12. The Southern India Engineering Manufacturers' Association has appealed to the Centre to exempt foundries from the purview of "polluting industries of high nature".

In a memorandum to the Union Minister for Forests and Environment, A. Raja, the SIEMA president, C.R. Swaminathan, said that Coimbatore had a number of units manufacturing electric motors, pumps, diesel engines, textile machinery and automobile components. The foundry sector was the mother industry for all these and there were more than 600 foundries here. Most of these were small and medium-scale units.

He said that the foundries had installed the necessary equipment to control the emissions. In 2002, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests had released a notification on Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) norms stating that any project involving less than Rs. 100 crores need not seek EIA clearance. It had notified 16 categories of industries for the relaxation.

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