Tamil Nadu   

New scheme for effluents discharge mooted

G. Satyamurty

The committee visited various places in the district including Tirupur

Coimbatore: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly proposes to recommend a Rs. 800 crore scheme to dispose of treated effluents from Tirupur into the sea, its chairman C. Gnanasekaran told a press conference here on Wednesday.

The committee has visited various places in the district including Tirupur.

He admitted that the Orathupalayam dam that came up in 1992 for storing irrigation water turned out to be a reservoir for effluents from Tirupur and the Kalingarayan canal. The entire agricultural land around the reservoir has been affected and water in the surrounding wells is not suitable for drinking.

A number of patients in the Kanchipuram Cancer Institute were from this region. "The people of this region even complain of infertility due to this water and they also suffer from dermatological problems."

Mr. Gnanasekaran said though a number of units installed the reverse osmosis facility, many of them were not properly maintained."

He suggested a scheme to discharge the treated effluents into the sea near Nagapattinam as a permanent solution. The project could be funded by the Centre with contributions from the State and Tirupur entrepreneurs.

Similar to the master plan for supplying water from the Cauvery for Vellore, Dharmapuri and Krishnagiri, a master plan for the affected region should be evolved.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Stories in this Section

An `energetic' lecture for rural development
Importance of reading newspapers stressed
Falling standards
To light up my life
Seminar series on management techniques
Indian Science Congress opens on January 3
Simplifying problems in learning math
Red sanders seized
Sun TV to turn pay channel
Centre must be empowered to implement court rulings: Vaiko
New scheme for effluents discharge mooted
Briefly

Copyright © 2006, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu