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By Our Special Correspondent
Members of the Tamil Nadu Plastic Industries Association observing a day-long fast at the State Guest House in Chennai on Monday. — Photo: R. Ragu
CHENNAI, SEPT. 20. Members of the Tamil Nadu Plastic Industries Association (TAPIA) today observed a dawn-to-dusk fast in front of the Government Guest House at Chepauk demanding among other things abolition of 20 per cent Customs Duty on plastic raw material. G. Sankaran, convenor of the TAPIA, said in a release here that there were 7000 plastic units in the State, providing employment to three lakh persons directly and five lakh persons indirectly. But the industry faced a crisis for the last one year as the prices of the raw material had shot up by 100 per cent. The fast was also aimed at urging the Centre to constitute a "plastic consumer council," impose a ban on export of raw material, curb monopoly tendencies in raw material production and remove the Entry Tax imposed by the State Government on plastic raw material.
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