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Tamil Nadu
Dyeing unit owners losing sympathy
R. Vimal Kumar
Tirupur: The continued agitation by the dyeing unit owners, their kin and other stakeholders for the third successive day on Thursday has started inviting the wrath of the public, farmers and consumer activists.
“Traffic snarls for long hours caused by the congregation of a large number of people in the streets to press their demands will only make the dyeing fraternity lose sympathy of the public. If the agitators' cause for concern over the closure of dyeing units is correct, they should have been represented it in a better manner,” opined P. Somasundaram, secretary of Tirupur Consumer Voice.
A wide section of the society termed the agitations now being held by the dyers and other stakeholders as ‘misguided action'.
“Is it not the same dyeing unit owners who are responsible for the present crisis,” quipped K.C.M. Balasubramaniam, a retired scientist of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University and a farmer himself.
According to Mr. Balasubramaniam, the dyeing units did not show any social commitment and discharged effluents indiscriminately into River Noyyal even one-and-a half decade after the farmers' moved the court for the first time against the pollution caused by the dyeing units.
He pointed out that the court order closing the dyeing units on two contempt petitions filed by the farmers' association had clearly stated that those dyeing units or common effluent treatment plants which rectify the defects and ensured zero liquid discharge could approach the Pollution Control Board for fresh inspection to reopen the units. “In that scenario, the agitators' demand for steps from State Government to reopen the units is to intimidate the authorities concerned,” he said.
Mr. Balasubramaniam further alleged that the District Collector had seemingly violated the election code of conduct by receiving the petition from the protestors, who had been asking for revival of dyeing unit operations, on Wednesday. “When the weekly grievances day meeting has been stopped with the announcement of elections since officials were barred from receiving petitions, how then the Collector received the petition from the agitators,” he asked.
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