Summary:
Next hearing will be held on October 5 and 6.Even as the participants in the hearing were sharing details with the media, a verbal dual broke out between the pro and anti-Sterlite groups. However, a group of pro-Sterlite members said the anti-group was trying to create problems. The anti-Sterlite group charged that those who supported it were on the payroll of the company. They visited the plant on Sunday.MDMK founder Vaiko represented the local people opposing reopening of the plant when the committee met at Kalas Mahal -- the National Green Tribunal’s southern region office in Chennai.After the hearing, which started at 10.30am and ended at 2.30pm, Vaiko told reporters that protests against Sterlite had been going on for the past 22 years. It should give a chance to hear the voices of common people, those who lost their family members during the protests, farmers, fishermen and real traders,” he said.“Sterlite is an environmental disaster, I told the tribunal,” he saidVaiko said the committee had agreed to hear his argument..