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Condemning the DMK authorities for failing to found a Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) astatine SIPCOT Perundurai, BJP cadre attempted to observe a accelerated and were removed by the constabulary successful Perundurai connected Friday.
The cadre gathered extracurricular the SIPCOT Industrial Growth Centre and alleged that industries successful the country person been discharging effluents into unfastened spaces, causing terrible biology harm and affecting farmers and residents.
They said determination has been a long-pending request for mounting up a CETP successful the concern estate. According to the cadre, Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin, connected November 21, 2023, announced the constitution of a CETP astatine a outgo of ₹40 crore and issued a Government Order astatine Perundurai, but enactment was yet to commence. Subsequently, connected June 11, 2025, Chief Minister M.K. Stalin laid the instauration chromatic for a CETP task estimated astatine ₹136.76 crore.
The protesters alleged that contempt the instauration chromatic being laid doubly for the aforesaid project, nary advancement has been made, truthful far. They besides pointed retired that Minister for Housing, Prohibition and Excise S. Muthusamy had earlier assured the radical that the task would beryllium completed wrong 9 months, but enactment is yet to begin.
Raising slogans, the cadre urged the authorities to expedite the project, stating that continued contamination has been affecting agriculture and nationalist wellness successful the region.
Police officials said anterior support had not been obtained for the accelerated and removed Perundurai MLA S. Jayakumar, party’s Erode South territory caput K. Saravanan, BJP Perundurai municipality president S. Poornachandran, and others from the spot.
