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Alleging that the State authorities and the territory medication were destroying h2o resources successful the sanction of establishing a textile park, members of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), affiliated to the Communist Party of India (Marxist), staged a objection connected Wednesday (December 31, 2025) opposing the project. They are demanding that the project be relocated, citing its adverse interaction connected farmers and the public.
The farmers said that though the task had been named the Salem Yarn Colouring Park (SYCP) and projected connected 187 acres astatine Jagir Ammapalayam, it was efficaciously a dyeing parkland that would pb to contamination of h2o sources successful much than 40 villages successful the region. They said they had lone precocious go alert of the project’s implications, starring to beardown opposition.
If implemented, the task would contaminate groundwater, affecting drinking h2o sources arsenic good arsenic h2o utilized for agriculture and home purposes, they alleged. They blamed the territory medication for failing to question the consent of section residents earlier proposing the project.
Terming the handling of the contented by some the State authorities and the territory medication unacceptable, the farmers pointed to groundwater contamination successful Tiruppur, Perundurai, and Pallipalayam owed to dyeing units and reiterated their request that the task beryllium relocated.
