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
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
Industrialists urged to take initiatives to ensure clean environment Justice P. Sathasivam, Judge of Supreme Court, has asked the industrialists in Tirupur knitwear cluster to always abide by the court directives and take initiatives to provide a clean environment. “Courts can not remain silent on seeing the pollution caused on rivers and air. The orders of both Supreme Court and High Court on environmental/ pollution issues have always been pronounced for the good of the common public.
The Indian Wind Power Association has sought a common wind energy policy in all States. At its annual general meeting here recently, the association, through a resolution, appealed to the Union Ministry of Power to ensure that all State utilities adopt a uniform policy for wind energy, especially for wheeling and banking charges. The funds for installing new transmission lines and sub-stations should be granted from the Clean Energy Fund. Incentives should be granted for those who go in for taller machines, replacing old turbines.
The Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board (TNSCB) would be undertaking a survey of the slums in Vellore Corporation with a view to replacing them with pucca individual houses or apartments under the Rajiv Awas
ICAR has planned to fund 12 major projects on bio-energy The XII Five Year Plan will take into account two approaches – development of energy-efficient systems for non-conventional energy use in agriculture, and substitution of conventional or non-renewable energy sources with renewable energy sources, M.M. Pandey, Deputy Director General, Agricultural Engineering, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), said here on Tuesday.
Attempts to prune the branches and to cut a huge tree in front of a building on Venkatasamy Road in R.S. Puram on Wednesday triggered opposition by green activists. A group of green activists gathered in front of the building and tried to stop the tree cutting. This led to tense moments and commotion for some time. After the owner of the building stated that he was cutting the tree only with prior permission, the green activists left the place deciding to take up the matter with the Revenue Divisional Officer for granting permission for tree cutting without inspection of the trees by the members of the Tree Protection Committee.
Farmers in the Lower Bhavani (LBP) Project ayacut have appealed to the public works department to check the unauthorised pumping of water from the rivers and water carrying channels in the district immediately. A few persons in the old ayacut of LBP, which comprises Thadapalli, Arakkankottai and Kalingarayan ayacuts, were drawing water illegally from the Bhavani and Cauvery rivers and water carrying channels using motor pumpsets.
The Indian Wind Power Association has appealed to the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) to continue with the system of banking energy for wind power generators. Association chairman K. Kasthoorirangaian said in a release here on Tuesday that in the first 100 days of the financial year 2012-13, wind energy generation was 4,450 million units compared to 2,884 million units during the same period last year.
‘About 800 million people live in the villages in the country’ T. Stanes and Company, which has a strong network in most of the rural parts of the country, should look at Providing Urban Amenities in Rural Areas (PURA) projects through the local co-operatives, former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam said here on Monday. As part of the sesquicentennial celebrations of T. Stanes and Company here on Monday, he released a book “Friends of the Earth – The Stanes Story” by V. Sriram and the first copy was received by British Deputy High Commissioner, South India, Mike Nithavrianakis.
The State Government will plant more than 680 crore saplings on private lands in the next eight years, Forest Minister K.T. Pachamal has said. The government had come up with the initiative to increase the green cover as the State currently had a green cover of 21.76 per cent, he said after inspecting the Vellode bird sanctuary here on Monday. The government had already launched a massive initiative to plant 64 lakh saplings in April, he added.
It is up to Puducherry government to resolve the issues: Narayanasamy The East Coast Rail project was fraught with land acquisition issues and resolving them rested solely with the Puducherry government, said V.Narayanasamy, Union Minister of State for Prime Minister’s Office, Parliamentary Affairs, and Pensions, here at the flagging off of the Tiruchirappali-Nagore passenger extended up to Karaikal, on Monday.