Four textile dyeing plants and a tannery in Erode have been shut down by the Revenue and Pollution Control Board for not installing the effluent treatment plants within their premises.
Several tanneries and textile dyeing plants in Kumilankuttai, Agraharam, Vairapalayam, Periya and some other places in Erode have been inspected in order to check the installation of effluent treatment plants which is used to treat the waste.
The effluent treatment plants have not been set up by the four dyeing plants and they have been releasing their waste materials into drains, without treating the same. The tannery had installed the RO plant but it was not operational. The five plants were shut down and a case was registered against the owners of the plants.