Groundwater level has increased by 0.6 metres
Rs. 20 crore has been allocated for supplying water across the State, says TWAD Board managing director The groundwater level has increased from 18.10 metres below ground level (pre-monsoon) to 17.5
Hindu (Chennai)
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New drive by police against haphazard parking
Stickers will be pasted on vehicles in no-parking zone. To deter motorists who park their vehicles at their whim and fancy on the arterial roads, traffic Police are trying to put a new system in place.
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Ban on unauthorised extraction of groundwater
In a crackdown launched by authorities, a ban has been enforced on unauthorised extraction of groundwater at seven locations in Servaikaranmadam village in Tuticorin taluk. Sub-Divisional Magistrate
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Delay in providing net meter for solar plant flayed
Tangedco says procedures were not followed The governments and activists might be pitching hard for people to convert to clean and renewable fuel, but when it comes to switching over to non-conventional
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Solar-powered pump sets to mitigate irrigation woes
60 units have so far been set up in Dindigul district From now on, farmers need not wait on the corridors of Tangedco offices to check the waitlist of free power applicants to meet their irrigation
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Wind mills did not face any evacuation problem
Of the total energy generated in the State on Tuesday evening, 32 per cent was from the wind mills, said K. Kasthurirangaian, president of the Indian Wind Power Association. The wind mills did not face
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Government plans to generate 20,000 mw solar power
Roof top solar panels to be encouraged on the lines of Germany The Union Government has drawn up plans to facilitate the setting up of 26 solar power plants at 26 locations in the country and increase
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HC asks for impact study on felling of thousands of trees
Taking suo motu cognisance of a public interest litigation petition, the Madras High Court has called upon officials of the Road Transport and Highways Department to inform the court whether any impact
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TNPCB to conduct study at Unilever factory
The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board will conduct an in-depth study of the effects of mercury in the environment caused by the now-defunct thermometer manufacturing unit of Hindustan Unilever in Kodaikanal.
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Special law sought to save Western Ghats in State
40 organisations have committed themselves to be part of federation. In order to give a fillip to eco-conservation, the Save Western Ghats Federation of Tamil Nadu formed in Coimbatore recently has
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NGOs survey vacant lands to rehabilitate urban poor
City NGOs have begun a survey of vacant lands in Chennai to facilitate rehabilitation of people living in slums near their places of work. At a public meeting on ‘Chennai residents’ right to the city’,