The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) will hold a public hearing on the expansion of Adani group’s Kattupalli Port in Tiruvallur district on September 5.
The company applied for environmental clearance in 2019 for expanding the capacity of the port at a cost of ₹53,031 crore. The expansion, as mentioned in the “Proposed Revised Master Plan Development of Kattupalli Port”, involves accommodating all the berths as multipurpose cargo port with transloading facilities, backup facilities and independent port craft facilities, waste reception facilities, and conveyor systems.
According to the Environment Impact Assessment, the port is proposed to be expanded from its current area of 330 acres to 6,111 acres. Of this, nearly 2,000 acres are planned to be reclaimed by dumping dredged sand into the sea.
