Reply affidavit filed by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the matter of Debadityo Sinha & Others Vs Union of India & Others. An application filed before the NGT said that illegal construction activities and clearing the vegetation and forest using massive earthwork and levelling the land …
Officials have to be bribed to obtain consent, SHGs allege Self-help groups (SHGs) involved in brick making, as well as artisans, complain that restrictions imposed by the department of mines to control illicit sand mining are crippling their trade, a charge denied by mining officials. Curbs on clay mining under …
The Madras High Court bench here on Tuesday directed the Tuticorin police to file a counter-affidavit to a petition filed by the Human Rights Protection Centre (HRPC), Tuticorin district, seeking permission to organise a rally and a public meeting at Tuticorin on October 12 to highlight illegal garnet quarrying in …
S.P. Udayakumar, who has been coordinating the ongoing protests against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project, on Thursday said he was prepared to leave the coastal hamlet of Idinthakarai, the epicentre of the two-year-old agitation, to meet the Chief Minister and air his grievances pertaining to the project. “If the police …
Members of People’s Confederation against Nuclear Energy organised a sloganeering protest here on Wednesday against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project. The protestors said the KKNPP should be scrapped as various developed nations, having understood the dangers involved in nuclear power generation programme, had abandoned it and were switching over to …
Presidents of 21 coastal village panchayats submit petition to DRO A team of 21 village panchayat presidents from the coastal areas of the district and the office-bearers of sand mining workers’ associations have appealed to Chief Minister Jayalalithaa to withdraw the recent ban imposed on coastal sand mining in the …
5,000 were working as labourers for companies that exported sand’. Around 400 fishermen, including 75 women, from the coastal hamlets of the district submitted a petition to District Revenue Officer P. Uma Maheshwari at the weekly grievance day meeting on Monday, urging the State government to allow sand mining “which …
The Tamil Nadu government, which had suspended mining of rare earth minerals like garnet, ilmenite and rutile along the Tuticorin coast last month following complaints of large-scale illegal mining, on Tuesday extended the ban to Tirunelveli, Kanyakumari, Trichy and Madurai districts. Chief minister J Jayalalithaa, in a statement, said a …
Probe to look into alleged irregularities in 71 mineral quarries in the southern districts. Moments after receiving an enquiry report on alleged illicit mining of beach minerals in six lease areas of the Tuticorin district, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Tuesday ordered yet another probe into the functioning of garnet, ilmenite …
A special team will also survey 71 mines in these southern districts, said chief minister J Jayalalithaa. The Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday said a decision on mining across the state's coastal areas would be taken once it gets the probe report on irregularities committed in 71 mines leased to …
The second unit is expected to go on stream by June next year The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) Unit-I is set to begin production in the next 20 days. "The plant will start production in the next 15-20 days once it completes the trial run," said R S Sundar, …
The Human Rights Protection Centre (HRPC) here has alleged that illegal garnet quarrying is rampant in Tirunelveli district despite the order of the National Green Tribunal prohibiting quarrying. Advocate S. Vanchinathan, Deputy Secretary of the HRPC, told the media in a press meet on Thursday that a fact-finding team comprising …
Work on the construction of a canal linking three rivers to provide water to the parched regions of two districts has run aground for lack of funds. The third and the fourth phase of work on the 73-km-long flood and stormwater channel, being dug to connect Tamirabharani – Karumaeniyar and …
Net Present Value was not realised from user agencies in seven cases Tamil Nadu has its share of adverse comment in the findings of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) relating to diversion of vast tracts of forest lands for development and industrial projects, mismanagement in realisation of Net Present …
Naturalists make a strong case for comprehensive study to save them from extinction Equipped with unique evolutionary advantages, ground nesting birds used to survive against all odds. But now these bird species are under grave threat that has come in the form of shrinking of their habitation and predatory animals. …
R. Nallakannu, Senior Leader of CPI, who presided over a demonstration staged at Sindhupoondurai here on Sunday against illegal beach sand mining, sought thorough inspection along the coastline in Tuticorin, Tirunelveli and Kanyakumari districts. He sought a ban of mineral sand export and appealed to the officials to inspect the …
Private Consultant submits technical report on the water project A German bank will fund the Corporation’s proposed drinking water project. The project seeks to draw water from the Ariyanayagipuram check dam and envisages an outlay of Rs. 230 crore. Loan The Frankfurt-based public sector development bank, KfW, will provide Rs. …
The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board has granted permission to the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) to run its first reactor at 50 per cent (500 MW) capacity and synchronisation of its generator. The permission , given around 8 p.m. on Wednesday night, has triggered jubilation among KKNPP officials, as it …
Officials from the Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOT) and the Department of Geology and Mining have completed the physical survey of 17 major mineral quarries and five granite quarries, in a little more than 70 hectares in the western districts of Tamil Nadu. This project has been launched to …
With the 1,000 MWe (mega watt electrical) first unit of the Kudankulam nuclear project scheduled to be commissioned next month, a slugfest has erupted among the power-starved southern states to ensure that new claimants are kept out and their share of electricity from the atomic project is hiked. Andhra Pradesh, …
When the petition came up before a Division Bench comprising Justices R Banumathi and T S Sivagnanam today, the Judges posted it for hearing by the first bench which was seized of matters relating to the KNPP A petition has been filed in the Madras High Court against commissioning of …
