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Thousands of tonnes of sludge removed from Sipcot cluster

The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has removed 106,000 tonnes of sludge dumped at the Sipcot Industrial Growth Centre in Perundurai, according to local media reports.

Perundurai SIPCOT to be closed following environmental violations

Following the potential legal action against a plant in Perundarai, a town in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, which is run by tannery units functioning at the State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu (SIPCOT) Industrial Growth Centre, as reported by ILM, the Chairman of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has directed officials to close the Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP).

Tanneries face potential legal action for illegally discharging effluents

A plant in Perundarai, a town in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, which is run by tannery units functioning at the State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu (SIPCOT) Industrial Growth Centre, has been discharging effluents into a defunct oxidation pond. The District Environmental Engineer of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has recommended legal action against the Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP).

Official inspection shuts illegal tanneries in Tamil Nadu

Tannery units operating without a licence in the outskirts of Chennai, Indian state of Tamil Nadu, were shut down on July 4.

Eight tanneries shut down in Tamil Nadu

The tanneries have seen their power supply disconnected after failing to rectify problems in their waste pre-treatment systems.

Inspectors disconnect power to polluting tanneries

Four tannery units located in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu were reported to be discharging effluents into drainage systems without prior processing.

Tanners electricity supply cut after Ranipet sludge disaster

Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) on February 5 told the South Bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT) that three senior officials had been suspened, even as State government transferred the investigation into the Ranipet tannery accident to the local police investigators.

Ranipet sludge tank collapse kills 10 tannery workers

In the worst ever tannery related disaster in Tamil Nadu, 10 workers were drowned by toxic sludge in the early hours of January 31 at a tannery unit in the Small Industries Development Corporation (SIDCO) Industrial Estate in Ranipet.

The flood, caused by a breach in the concrete wall of the sludge storage tank of the adjacent Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP), which drowned the workers who were asleep, unaware.