Tamil Nadu government cancels the PCPIR order: Tamil Nadu government today, February 22, cancels its order issued in 2017, declaring 45 villages in the delta region as petroleum hubs. TN government deliberately took this decision after passing the Protected Agricultural Zone resolution in the assembly yesterday.
Many leaders have criticized several issues in the resolution, including the 2017 Tamil Nadu government order to declare 45 villages in the delta region as petroleum hubs. Now with this order today, the Tamil Nadu government has partly answered the issues raised by the leaders yesterday.
On July 19, 2017, by way of a notification by the state housing and urban development department, 45 villages of Cuddalore and Nagapattinam districts came under the petroleum hub. It is known as the PCPIR or petroleum chemicals and petrochemicals investment region. With already the central government hydrocarbon project, this PCPIR announcement of the state government raised concerns for the delta people.