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Members of the Tamil Nadu Farmers’ Association staged a protestation adjacent Sivaganga opposing the backstage extraction of graphite.
Protesters said, successful November 2023, a declaration was awarded to a backstage entity to extract graphite minerals successful Iluppakudi country adjacent Sivaganga.
For this purpose, it is reported that 633.5 hectares of onshore successful areas including Kumarapatti, Arasanur, and Iluppakudi are to beryllium acquired. The section radical expressing beardown absorption to the project, connected December 29, held a objection astatine Iluppakudi.
Following this, they besides made an entreaty to the District Collector K. Porkodi.
State General Secretary of the Tamil Nadu Farmers’ Association, Sami Natarajan, said: “Already, 500 acres of onshore were acquired successful the Iluppakudi country for the Indo-Tibetan Border Police. Similarly, 775 acres of onshore were acquired for the Arasanur SIPCOT. Now, they are astir to manus implicit much than 1,500 acres of onshore to a backstage entity for graphite extraction.”
Due to this, 4 irrigation tanks and much than 200 pump-set wells would beryllium affected successful the Iluppakudi country alone.
“Through this, galore thousands of acres of farmland would crook into wasteland. The full country depends connected agriculture. Therefore, the governments should retreat the determination to excavation graphite,” helium said.
Sivaganga AIADMK MLA P. R. Senthilnathan extending his enactment to the protestation said: “Even the enactment of surveying the onshore should not beryllium permitted. We are acceptable to combat careless of however galore cases are registered against america due to the fact that of this.”
“I volition rise my dependable successful the Legislative Assembly on with General Secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami. If determination was inactive nary enactment aft that, we would record a lawsuit successful tribunal and halt the graphite extraction project, conscionable similar successful Arittapatti”, helium noted.
