The Pollution Control Board closed and demolished 363 textile dyeing, printing and bleaching units functioning in Erode district without any license during the last three years, a senior official today said.
A senior officer of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board at Erode informed the media that based on information, they conducted a raid at Periyasemur, a suburb of Erode, yesterday and found six textile bleaching factories and a textile dyeing factory functioning without any license. They demolished the seven factories in the presence of Revenue, Electricity and Police personnel, the official said.
The official said during the last three years, they have demolished 363 such unauthorized, unlicensed textile bleaching and dyeing factories.
They have taken stringent action against some textile dyeing factories which are discharging untreated effluent into water courses, he added.
