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‘Take steps to stop effluent discharge into River Noyyal’

Staff Reporter

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Tirupur: The Tirupur district unit of the All India Congress Committee’s (AICC) Legal and Human Rights Department was inaugurated here on Saturday, passed its first resolution seeking stringent steps to stop effluent discharge into River Noyyal, among other demands.

M. Muthusamy, senior advocate of Madras High Court and Chairman of Tamil Nadu State-unit of AICC’s Legal and Human Rights Department, said the State Government should intervene to ensure that the recently established zero discharge systems in the Common Effluent Treatment Plants in the Tirupur knitwear cluster become operational at the earliest.

“This is the only way to save Noyyal and its basin from further environmental degradation as well as protect the existence of human habitations alongside the river course in Coimbatore, Erode, Tirupur and Karur districts,” he pointed out.

According to him, mushrooming of dyeing units dangerously close to the banks of River Noyyal since 1996 and subsequent indiscriminate discharge of effluents from it contributed to the high levels of pollution in the Noyyal.

Mr. Muthusamy also urged setting up of a bench of Supreme Court in Chennai.

Similarly, the State Government should expedite the process of constituting a district judge’s court for Tirupur district.

Another resolution passed by the Tirupur-unit of the Legal and Human Resources Department was the need to popularise the Right to Information Act among the public in the district.

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