Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton Canal nearly choked due to garbage dumping appearing in the DT Next dated 11.05.2025". The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton …
The way to go: A dedicated bus carriageway will ensure optimum usage of public transport. According to a recent news report Tamil Nadu Urban Infrastructure Financial Services Limited (TNUIFSL) has decided to take up the Adyar River Front Project as the first part of the Rs. 2,300-crore Chennai Circular Corridor. …
The Chennai Corporation has bought six catamarans to be used to clear weeds and garbage floating on the city's waterways. The new equipment would be used to remove the floating masses and spray larvicide to control mosquito breeding, Mayor M. Subramanian said on Friday. The catamarans were deployed on a …
Fewer gas outlets, lower mileage are prompting auto drivers to go back to petrol SEVERAL autorickshaws in the city are back to using petrol tanks even after converting to LPG, citing problems with using the more ecofriendly fuel. ''I converted my autorickshaw to gas a few months ago following a …
Chemometric techniques such as factor analysis (FA),cluster analysis (CA) and discriminant analysis (DA) were applied to the groundwater quality data in a tannery-polluted area of Chennai city, India.
Muniyamma, 30, and her family survived the tragic Boxing Day of 2004. But its aftermath has left her a widow and her four children fatherless. Her husband Pazhanivel, 38, immolated himself as the district administration tried to evict tsunami refugees from a temporary shelter in Kadambadi, near Nagapattinam. Having lost …
THE Chennai Corporation, as part of its cost-cutting measures, has planned to install more solar-powered streetlights in narrow streets and slum areas in the city According to May . or M Subramanian, the Corporation spent nearly Rs 18 crore a year for powering streetlights. By introducing solar-powered lights, the Corporation …
ON January 15, the production licences of three vaccine-manufacturing public enterprises under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoH&FW;) were cancelled, and they were ordered to suspend production forthwith by the then Drug Controller General of India (DCGI), M. Venkateswarlu, for reasons of non-compliance with good manufacturing practice (GMP) …
Full to the brim: Malliga Mohan, chairperson of Madambakkam town panchayat, at the compost yard where kitchen waste is converted into manure. TAMBARAM: After remaining idle for a very long time, compost yards built in most of the town panchayats around Tambaram have started functioning. Several lakhs were spent over …
By taking a case study from Chennai, this paper qualitatively assess pedestrian environment in an institutional zone. Techniques for assessing pedestrian facilities are discussed before undertaking evaluation of the pedestrian environment. Through this evaluation of pedestrian amenities and the quality of the pedestrian environment, the authors reveal serious shortcomings.
Access to water and control over it is not only a matter of survival but an issue of democratic participation of all citizens in the management of their country's natural resources, particularly as conflicts over water increase. This collection of case studies offers insights into promising attempts and successful models …
Chennai Metropolitan Area extends over 1180 sq. km and has a population of more than 8.5 million. Rapid increase in urbanization with vehicle congestion has increased menacingly on the roads of Chennai. As a result of this, gaseous pollutants and respirable and suspended particulate matter pollutants are continuously increasing in …
With property prices skyrocketing across the country, there are suspicions that the government is covertly leveraging its sez policy to benefit realtors Prominent industrialist Rahul Bajaj charges the developers with turning these zones into a land scam in their zest to secure tax holidays. Scoffing at any comparisons between sezs …
The authors assessed (i) the risk of cardiovascular disease in an industrial population in Chennai, southern India and (ii) whether the status of treatment and control of diabetes and hypertension would be different in an industrial population, which is provided free healthcare, compared with the general population of Chennai.
The Toxics Link study found high concentrations of lead in all samples of soft toys containing PVC. Even trace amounts of lead are dangerous to children.
The therapy may hold the cure for many dreaded ills WHEN the patch on six-year-old Sumaiya Aziza's left eye was removed, her reaction, and of her parents, was like a frame out of a Bollywood scene. The tears, the joy, the incredulity, and the words, "Baba, I can see." Aziza's …
Five years air monitoring study was carried out to assess the primary air pollutants present in the ambient air in Chennai city during 1999-2003 at two different sampling stations.
In this paper we illustrate the socio-economic dynamics of peri-urban zones of Indian Metropolitan cities, which are at the heart of the current urban liberalisation. For this, we study the impact of the water purchasing agreement the Metropolitan water board signed with some farmers of peri-urban areas of Chennai (formerly …
Definitions and indicators play an important role in determining success. In the context of the Millennium Development Goals, the global target of reducing the proportion of population without access to improved sources of water is expected to be met. A major contributor to success is India, where the proportion of …
In November 2004, the Coastal Action Network (CAN) approached the Madras High Court, seeking a stay on SSCP public hearings. Their petition was dismissed. The court said: Before parting with the above cases, we would like to mention that we should not obstruct the scientific and technical progress of the …
