TNPCB may not issue certificate to Pisanathur plant, says Durai Vaiko

Tiruchi Member of Parliament Durai Vaiko connected Sunday said that Minister for Finance, Environment and Climate Change Thangam Thennarasu had assured him that the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) would not accord consent to found (CTE) to the projected communal biomedical discarded attraction works astatine Pisanathur adjacent Gandharvakottai successful Pudukottai district.

Mr. Durai Vaiko told The Hindu that helium met the Minister successful Chennai connected Sunday and expressed the apprehensions of the villagers, who had been staging a sit-in protestation implicit the past 1 period against the mounting up of the plant. He conveyed the apprehensions of the radical to the Minister that the works would origin aerial and h2o contamination successful the locality.

The projected installation by a backstage steadfast was meant to process bio-medical discarded from 8 districts. Although it was established with the bully nonsubjective of safely disposing aesculapian waste, helium told the Minister that it was unfortunate that it was planned to beryllium located successful a thickly populated spot surrounded by cultivation fields and h2o sources. There were apprehensions that incineration of the discarded astatine the portion could pollute the situation successful a 30-km radius.

Mr. Durai Vaiko said helium had told Mr. Thennarasu that though it was assured that an effluent attraction works and continuous emanation monitoring strategy would beryllium established, shortcomings successful attraction oregon instrumentality failures could inactive origin contamination and impact the people’s health. Hence, it was indispensable that an alternate tract successful a sparsely populated country was identified for locating the unit.

After listening to him, Mr. Thennarasu said that a consent to found (CTE) licence from the TNPCB was indispensable to found the plant. Similarly, aft completion of it, a consent to run (CTO) was indispensable to commencement the operation. The CTE would beryllium denied, Mr. Durai Vaiko said and added that the assurance meant that it would not beryllium imaginable for establishing the biomedical discarded attraction plant.

“I see this a large triumph for the unity and motivation conflict of the protesters. On behalf of them I explicit gratitude to the State authorities and Mr. Thangam Thennarasu for the intervention. I anticipation the works volition not beryllium acceptable up astatine the projected site,” the MP said.