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Exporters welcome proposal to set up effluent treatment plants
February 16, 2016
The Tirupur Exporters Association (TEA) today welcomed the proposal for preparing Detailed Project Reports to set up Common Effluent Treatment Plants (CETPs) at four places in Tamil Nadu, in the interim budget, which was presented today in the Tamil Nadu Assembly. The plants will be based on the Zero Liquid Discharge model of Tirupur.
In a statement, TEA president A Shaktivel said that setting up of CETPs in Namakkal, Erode, Salem and Karur, was the need of growth of textile industry, including exports from Tamil Nadu. Thanking the Chief Minister, he also welcomed the allocation of Rs.150 crores for Skill Development Mission.
He also praised the Chief Minister, Ms. J. Jayalalithaa for registering an average annual Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) growth rate of 8.01 percent in real terms, from 2011-2012 to 2015- 2016, and for not proposing any new taxes.
