A delegation of dyers from Tirupur are likely to meet the union textile minister, Smriti Irani, at the end of the ongoing Parliament session, to discuss pollution-related issues.

Irani has asked the Tirupur Exporters Association (TEA) President A. Sakthivel, to bring a delegation, along with dyeing units’ representatives, when he met the minister today at New Delhi.

Along with the hassles faced by the knitwear garment exporters and various issues to be addressed for the growth of the garment sector, Shaktivel had taken up the problems of dyeing units in Tirupur, particularly the Rs.200 crore grant announced by the Centre a decade ago, TEA sources said.

The minister had asked him to come as a delegation along with the dyeing units’ representatives, after the parliamentary session ends, mainly to discuss the grant to Common Effluent Treatment Plants (CETPs) in Tirupur, and also other pollution related issues.

Dyers are likely to raise the issue of high cost of operations, and also request the minister to consider the setting up of Dyers Park, with the financial assistance from the centre and the state government.