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At a time when a people's movement is gaining momentum highlighting the environmental impact of the brick kilns in Thadagam valley in Coimbatore, the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has said in reply to a query under the Right to Information (RTI) Act that it had not issued permits to any of the kilns. K. Manivannan, District Environmental Engineer (Coimbatore North), gave the RTI reply to S. Ganesh of Thadagam, one of the members of the people's movement demanding a ban of red earth mining in the valley, which falls in the Palakkad gap of the Western Ghats, contributing much to the salubrious climate of Coimbatore.
