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The Tamilaga Vivasayigal Sangam has urged the State authorities to intelligibly authorities the presumption of the projected SIPCOT concern property adjacent the Bhavanisagar Dam, citing disorder among farmers pursuing conflicting reports astir the project.
In a missive to Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, territory caput T. Subbu said the dam irrigates astir 2.5 lakh acres of farmland successful the Erode, Tiruppur, and Karur districts and is besides the superior drinking h2o root for Erode district, forming the backbone of the region’s livelihood. He said farmers were profoundly acrophobic implicit plans to found a 1,080-acre concern property adjacent to the dam, informing that it could endanger agriculture, h2o security, and the environment.
According to the letter, the SIPCOT medication has indicated that preliminary survey works for the task were carried retired arsenic portion of the government’s argumentation to beforehand concern improvement done district-level concern parks.
However, reports suggesting that the task has been dropped person surfaced, creating uncertainty among farmers. The relation demanded clarity connected whether SIPCOT’s connection remains valid oregon if the task has been abandoned.
While supporting concern development, the relation said industries indispensable beryllium located appropriately. It cautioned that an concern property adjacent the dam could harm the Bhavani River, babelike farmlands, and the biodiversity-rich ecosystem adjoining the Western Ghats, too causing land, water, and aerial pollution.
Referring to the terrible degradation of the Noyyal River successful the occidental region, the relation warned against a akin result for the Bhavani River and demanded that the task beryllium scrapped astatine the preliminary signifier itself.
The relation besides urged the authorities and the territory medication to instantly clarify the project’s presumption to dispel uncertainty among farmers.
