Anti-Sterlite protests: In Thoothukudi, how copper came a cropper

On May 22, 2018, the anger of locals over the pollution that industries in Thoothukudi were spewing reached a flashpoint. In the six days following the protest and police firing, the town remained on the boil. The district authorities are still trying to build confidence among the people. Twice shot, literally, the locals, who are mourning thedeath of 13 of their own, have begun to see the administration as adversaries.
The problem, though, goes back to the arrival of the Sipcot Industrial Estate over an area of 1,083 acres in 1994. It marked the beginning of a saga of struggle by the locals as the air over Thoothukudi was no more clean. Pollution levels started to go up and fishing, the mainstay of the town, was threatened.

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