<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f47889a3-9af7-4720-afbd-3b68ccd2a7ac/C283E9B5-C717-4C03-AACB-82E178863EBD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/SC-tells-Tirupurs-dyeing-industry-to-pay-for-polluting/articleshow/5099674.cms" href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/SC-tells-Tirupurs-dyeing-industry-to-pay-for-polluting/articleshow/5099674.cms" style="font-size: 11px;">timesofindia.indiatimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/SC-tells-Tirupurs-dyeing-industry-to-pay-for-polluting/articleshow/5099674.cms"><DIV> NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has come down hard on industries polluting water bodies, applying the `polluters pay' principle against 150-odd dyeing <TABLE cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left"><TBODY><TR><TD id="bellyad"></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE align="left" width="200" class="cnt"></TABLE> units in Tirupur's garment export which had been discharging their waste in Noyyal river. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/SC-tells-Tirupurs-dyeing-industry-to-pay-for-polluting/articleshow/5099674.cms"><DIV> In an order that may be cited by green activists, the court asked the dyeing units at Karur and Tirupur, which cater to the huge forex earning garment export industry in Tamil Nadu, to pay for cleaning the River Noyyal and other water bodies massively polluted by discharge from their factories. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/SC-tells-Tirupurs-dyeing-industry-to-pay-for-polluting/articleshow/5099674.cms"><DIV> The court noted that the industries have set up 17 common effluent treatment plants (CETPs) and were asked to pay up Rs 55.60 crore for eco-restoration and pollution check work. The Tirupur Dyeing Factories Association, as per a Madras High Court order, had paid up Rs 25 crore for this purpose. The SC said the rest of the amount had to be paid within three months. </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C283E9B5-C717-4C03-AACB-82E178863EBD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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