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Bench refuses to quash order

Staff Reporter

MADURAI: The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Wednesday refused to quash an order passed by the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board directing the closure of several textile dyeing units, without effluent treatment plants (ETPs) at Chinnalapatti in Dindigul district.

However, disposing of a batch of writ petitions moved by the dyeing units, a Division Bench comprising Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice S. Sardar Zackria Hussain, made it clear that as soon as ETPs were installed in the individual units, the District Environmental Engineer should allow the units to function.

According to the unit owners, they have been in the business of dyeing for several years and running the units from their houses. Claiming that each unit will discharge only 10 to 30 litres of effluent per day, they said that neither a river nor a water body was polluted, owing to the discharge. But, the pollution control board without inspecting the units and without complying with the mandatory provisions of the Water (prevention and control of pollution) Act, 1974, directed closure of the units, the petitioners alleged.

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