P Thangamani, Minister of Electricity, Prohibition and Excise, Tamil Nadu, has urged industrialists to handover the required land for establishing zero liquid discharge based Common Effluent Plant (CETPs) in the state. The minister also mentioned that for improvement and betterment of the textile industry, a permanent solution was needed for addressing these issues and the solution to that is establishing CETPs. Also, he urged the government to make the villagers aware that the CETPs would not pollute the ground water.

The minister further revealed that currently 18,000 MW power was generated in the State and an additional 5,000 MW was needed in the near future, of which Tangedco had proposed to generate 4,000 MW by 2023. Jayalalithaa, former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, had earlier announced setting of CETPs at Rs 700 crore as most of the units in Tirupur, Erode, Salem, Namakkal and Karur districts were cottage industries. But industrialists were yet to provide land for the project.