The integrated textile park being set up at a cost of Rs. 7 billion in
the coastal town of Cuddalore in the southern Indian State of Tamil
Nadu will become operational in the next 12 months, Mr. T Kannan,
Chairman of the National Textile Committee of the Confederation of
Indian Industry (CII), has said. Mr. Kannan said all required
approvals for the park have been obtained and it will be ready in the
next 12 months.
The Cuddalore park is being set up on an area of 150 acres under the
Central Government’s Integrated Textile Park Scheme, in
association with Southern India Mills’ Association (SIMA).
Thiagarajar Mills, Bannariamman, Loyal textiles and three companies
from Tirupur are among the ten firms that are setting up their dyeing,
bleaching and finishing units in the park.
The Cuddalore textile park has been facing opposition from environment
activists and fishermen for more than three years. They fear that the
release of toxic effluents into the sea by the textile units may cause
harm to fisheries and environment.
Mr. Kannan said sea discharge is a globally accepted practice as
textile effluents are only salt heavy and are not poisonous. He added
that the effluents will be discharged into the sea only after proper
treatment and they will not cause any harm to the sea.
He revealed that effluent water coming from textile units will be
first treated and its colours will be removed before water is
discharged into the sea. Thus, the water that reaches the sea is hard
and will not cause any harm to the sea water, which is already salt
heavy. He added that the sea discharge method is being followed by
many textile units in Gujarat.
He explained that the dyeing units in Tirupur had to shut down as they
could not afford the high costs of effluent treatment. He said Tirupur
being a landlocked region has no access to sea, and hence it has to
release its textile effluents into the soil. The water so discharged
has to be treated properly and converted to soft water before being
let into the soil; otherwise it will affect agriculture in the area.
He, however, added that zero-discharge as ordered by the High Court is
very expensive. He said zero-discharge of hard water would cost about
Rs. 0.50 per litre. In comparison, he said, sea discharge would cost
just one-tenth of the same. Hence, a sustainable idea for textile
dyeing units would be to relocate their processing units to the
coastal region.
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India:All set for integrated textile park in coastal TN
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