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Stating that the Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage (TWAD) Board has declared groundwater successful 35 villages successful the Perundurai Assembly constituency unfit for depletion owed to effluent discharge from industries successful SIPCOT, Perundurai MLA S. Jayakumar has urged the territory medication to guarantee proviso of protected drinking h2o and cod the outgo from the polluting industries.
In a petition submitted to Collector S. Kandasamy present connected Monday, the MLA said h2o samples collected from manus pumps, unfastened wells and overhead tanks successful these villages had failed to conscionable drinking h2o prime standards successful laboratory tests. Based connected this, the Block Development Officer of the Chennimalai Panchayat Union has installed informing boards astatine these h2o sources, declaring the h2o unfit for consumption. He noted that helium had raised the contented successful the Assembly arsenic well.
Mr. Jayakumar said waterbodies astir SIPCOT successful panchayats including Ponmudi, Kambiliyampatti, Paniyampalli, Punjai and Palatholuvu were contaminated owed to the nonstop discharge of effluents by industries.
Pointing to a akin concern successful Cuddalore district, wherever respective panchayats were affected owed to contamination from SIPCOT units, helium said the National Green Tribunal had directed industries determination to proviso protected drinking h2o to residents astatine their ain cost. “The aforesaid strategy should beryllium implemented successful Perundurai, with SIPCOT industries bearing the outgo of supplying protected drinking h2o from the Cauvery,” helium said.
