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PMK MP opposes plan to set up desalination plant in Kalapet

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`Discharge of effluents into sea will affect fish population'

PONDICHERRY: The Pattali Makkal Katchi Parliamentary party leader, M Ramadass has sought the intervention of the Chief Minister, N. Rangasamy, to prevent the Chemfab Alkali factory in Kalapet from establishing its desalination plant in the village.

In a release here on Tuesday Mr.Ramadass said that already the Chemfab and Sashun drug manufacturing plants in the village had been posing threat to the safe living of the residents in the coastal pockets of Kalapet and its neighbouring hamlets for years together..

The present plan of the Chemfab alkali Limited at Kalapet to establish a desalination plant by laying massive pipelines to bring seawater into the factory for desalination would make life of the fisherfolk still worse.

The nets used by fishermen in their routine avocation would get entangled in the pipelines that would be laid by the company to a distance of about a kilometre.

Mr.Ramadass also said that the industrial effluents that would be discharged into the sea would further affect the fish population and fishermen would face serious and critical situations to carry on their avocation.

The fishermen of about 17 villages in the Kalapet belt would be affected.

Fishermen Panchayat of Kalapet village have also protested against the factory`s plan to set up a desalination plant.

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