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Tirupur: The most spelt out promise by various political parties in the election campaign in Tirupur is the marine discharge project for disposing the treated effluents from dyeing units into the sea as a permanent solution to ending the dyeing industry crisis. A large section of farmers alongside River Noyyal feel that political party leaders, who had very little time for listening to their grievances , were just dancing to the tunes of industrialists by portraying the project as a holistic solution and to further gain time to comply with the pollution control norms. “Why you need a marine discharge project of about Rs. 1,000 crore when reputed institutions like NIFT-TEA College of Knitwear Fashion, promoted by Tirupur Exporters Association itself, had come out with scientific proof that zero liquid discharge (ZLD) was possible,” K.C.M. Balasubramaniam, a retired agriculture scientist from Tamil Nadu Agriculture University, told The Hindu. It was also to be noted that around 60 reputed industrialists had already approached Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board for reopening of their dyeing units with the claims that they had set up systems to attain zero liquid discharge in the effluent treatment process at their respective plants. Even the TNPCB sources confirmed to this paper that ZLD was a possible entity. “It is only because of the greediness of the dyeing unit owners to gain more profit, evaporation process in the existing zero liquid discharge system was bypassed and untreated effluents found its way into River Noyyal eventually resulting in the closure of the dyeing units,” Mr. Balasubramaniam said adding that hence, there was no point in blaming the ZLD as such. Unviable Patterson Edward, a renowned marine scientist and director of Suganthi Devadason Marine Research Institute in Tuticorin, affiliated to Manonmanim Sundaranar University, was of the opinion that unless the effluents taken into the sea were treated properly it would be catastrophic for the marine ecology. “For this, monitoring system need to be flawless all the time,” he said. K. Duraisami, president of Tirupur Ground Water Protection Committee, feels that the project is unviable. “Who can believe that the people who had bypassed all the environmental norms and dumped the effluents into River Noyyal for past many decades will fully treat the effluents before flowing it into the sea”, he quipped. According to Mr Balasubramaniam, drawing parallels with Gujarat by the industrialists here is wrong as the pipelines there are only of say 11 km in length or so while the Tirupur project is of 400 km in length. He said that marine discharge project would be economically unviable for a town which was about 400 km away from the shore as huge quantity of power was required to pump the effluents.
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