Faridabad dye industries demand for a dedicated textile park

Faridabad/ New Delhi, Feb 25 (KNN) Few days back the National Green Tribunal (NGT) had issued notice to the Haryana Government and its pollution control board seeking a response on the issue of illegal dye industries operating in Faridabad. But the industries argued that Government should provide them a dedicated textile park with a common treatment plant (CTP) having sufficient water supply.

Talking to KNN, the Executive Director of Faridabad Industries Association (FIA) Col. S Kapoor said that dye industries are ready to move if Government allocates a dedicated textile park to the industry with a centralised treatment plant.

Going back to the history, he recalled that 25 years back Supreme Court ordered to shift dye industries from Delhi to Faridabad. The industries were allotted a dedicated land and at that time there were no residential areas around that.

He further added after urbanization, residential areas came up near to the industries and that was when the problems started.

A textile park should be allotted to them near Faridabad because the entire business of the industries is in Delhi-NCR, he demanded.

He said if they are forced to go far, their supply line would spread and they won’t remain competitive.

However, he hoped that this year the Government would identify a dedicated place for them.

The directions of NGT came while hearing a petition filed by two Faridabad residents who alleged that over 150 jeans dyeing industries in the district were running without the consent of the Haryana Pollution Control Board (HPCB).

They claimed that the dyeing industries were directly discharging effluents into drains without any treatment and have also not installed any effluent treatment plant in their premises. (KNN Bureau)