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3. It is respectfully submitted that, the Ranipet District (formerly Vellore Dist.), Ranipet Town is located at 12 56° Northern latitude and 79.20° eastern longitude and is 93 KM west of Chennai. It is geographically 25 km away in the North East of Vellore, the District Headquarters of Vellore District. Ranipet has been selected by the SIDCO & SIPCOT to establish the estates/complexes, since it is situated at a distance of 3.5 km from River Palar and adjoining Chennai - Chittoor Bangalore Road (NH-4). Palar river is one of the major water sources running West to East located at downstream of the Industrial complex and other water bodies namely Puliyankannu and Karai Eri located in the downstream of the site.
4. It is respectfully submitted that the SIPCOT Industrial complex, Ranipet was established during the year 1973. The industrial complex has Phase-I, Phase-ll and Phase III where the Petro - chemical, Bulk drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Heavy Engineering, Foundry, Chemicals, Tanneries wet and Dry processes and miscellaneous industries are located including the defunct site of M/s Tamilndu Chromates and Chemicals Ltd., (TCCL). The Ranipet SIPCOT Industrial Complex lies in the North-West of Ranipet town and the area of SIPCOT Industrial Complex comprising of Phase I & II is 862.91 Acres. Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board has identified the industries located in Small Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamilnadu (SIPCOT) (Phase I & II) & Small Industrial Development Corporation Limited (SIDCO) of Ranipet area as the industrial cluster in former Vellore District (North Arcot). The SIPCOT industrial complex has the following infrastructure such as i) Water supply from head works at Palar River and 16 bore wells at Thengal village adjacent to the river Palar. ii) Roads - Length of 13.75 Km. Apart from there a Post office, Fire station, Police, dispensary & Canteen are being operated in this area. The SIPCOT industrial complex, Ranipet is surrounded by the following topography North - Agravaram Village East - Vanapadi Village South - Karai Village West - Puliyenkanu Village.
5. It is respectfully submitted that there are 1234 industries are located in the Ranipet District out of which 369 industries are located in Phase - I and Phase - Il of SIPCOT - SIDCO industrial complex area under the following categories of such as 17 Category, Red large, Red medium, Orange large, Orange medium, Green large, Green medium and small scale industries of Red, Orange and Green categories respectively in the SIPCOT
- SIDCO Ranipet area. There are four Common Effluent Treatment Plants (CETPs) are located in the Ranipet District out of which, two CETPS namely M/s Ranipet Tannery Effluent Treatment Company Limited, Chennai Krishnagiri By Pass Road, V.C. Mottur Village, Vannivedu (Post), Walajapet Taluk, Ranipet District and M/s Visharam Tanners Enviro Control Systems Private Limited, Melvisharam, Ranipet District are located out of SIPCOT - SIDCO area and other two CETPs M/s Ranipet SIDCO Finished Leather Effluent Treatment Company Limited, SIDCO Industrial Estate, Karai Village, Ranipet, Walajapet Taluk, Ranipet District and M/s. SIPCOT & SIDCO PHASE II Entrepreneur Finished Leather Effluent Treatment Company (P)Ltd., Plot No 105, SIPCOT Industrial Estate, Phase II, Puliyanthangal, SIPCOT, Ranipet with the member tannery units of 99 Nos.

6. It is respectfully submitted that the TNPCB has initiated the serious action on the violating industries which are located in the Critically Polluted Area (CEPI Area), SIPCOT, Ranipet and imposed an Environmental Compensation (EC) of Rs. 666.38 lakhs so as to comply Hon'ble NGT Case (SZ) of 1038/2018 Dt. 14.11.2019 vide Board's Lr.T4/TNPCB/F.2643/CEPI/ECNLR-26/2020 Dt.28.01.2020 and further small industry associations have obtained the stay on the impugned orders dt. 10.08.2019 and 14.11.2019 passed by the Hon'ble National Green Tribunal, Principle Bench, New Delhi from the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India. Further an Environmental Compensation of Rs. 18.6 Lakhs and Rs. 17.40 Lakhs was also imposed for repeated violation & non compliance of consent order conditions to the 17 category industry of Ms Thirumalai Chemicals Ltd., SIPCOT, Ranipet vide Board's Proceeding No.T5/TNPCB/F.0892/LR/RL/W/2019 Dated: 13.11.2019 and Board Letter Dt. 08.01.2021 respectively. The unit has also remitted the above Environmental Compensation. Similarly another 17 category unit in the same location of Ranipet SIPCOT. The unit of M/s. Malladi Drugs & Pharmaceuticals unit-III, SIPCOT, Ranipet an Environmental Compensation of Rs.47.10 Lakhs was imposed vide Board's letter Dt. 08.01.2021 for non compliance of the consent order conditions and violation caused by the unit. The unit has also remitted the same. In view of the above it is respectfully submitted to the Hon'ble NGT(SZ) that the TNPCB is continuously monitoring the industries located in the SIPCOT-SIDCO Ranipet area and taking the action on the industries so as to comply with various directions issued by the Hon'ble NGT orders.