Nedumaran seeks answers on Tata project

Demanding a committee headed by a retired High Court judge to look into the stand taken by both the DMK Government and the previous AIADMK regime on the Tata proposed titanium dioxide plant

Demanding a committee headed by a retired High Court judge to look into the stand taken by both the DMK Government and the previous AIADMK regime on the Tata proposed titanium dioxide plant, Tamils Nationalist Movement leader P Nedumaran sought to know why the Government could not take up the project.

In a release here, he said all documents relating to the projects should be perused by the committee. Raising a volley of questions about the project, he said the Government should also come out with the truth about the project before conducting public hearing.

Nedumaran said a DMK minister at the Centre had spoken in favour of the project and the party’s MLAs had participated in a rally conducted by the minister in support of the project. “It is unfair and clear cheating” that the Government had now formed a committee of higher officials and ministers to gather public opinion on the project,” he said.

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Though the MoU for the project was signed in 2002 when the AIADMK was in power, it was not implemented until 2006, he said, and sought to know the reason behind the delay. Seeking to know the reason for expediting the project now, he also asked why the Government was not running the project when profit was projected at Rs 1,000 crore a year.

There was also an opinion that 500 acres was enough for the project, he said and asked why the Government was keen to acquire 16,000 acres of land. Besides, he also sought an answer to why the Tatas had been allowed to draw 1.20 lakh gallons of Tamirabharani river water a day.

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