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 …
With conventional energy sources being limited in their availability, the search for alternative renewable energy sources is inevitable. Solar energy, an inexhaustible renewable energy is considered a vital source for a developing country like India, where there is a major deficit between the demand and supply of electricity. Crowded urban …
Even as Tamil Nadu grapples with a poor monsoon and water shortage, people of Coimbatore have taken it upon themselves to ensure not a single household suffers from a shortage of drinking water. Spearheading the city's initiative to ensure efficient water management is Siruthuli, an NGO working in the field …
The city's third corporation commissioner in as many months took charge on Thursday. K Vijay Karthikeyan, 28, who completed his MBBS before joining the Indian Administrative Service in 2011, is the youngest commissioner the city has had. Before joining Coimbatore corporation, Karthikeyan served as sub collector in Kovilpatti from September …
Valankulam, one of the biggest tanks in Coimbatore, will get a fresh lease of life with the civic body set to to remove 788 encroachments. Corporation and slum clearance board officials met on Saturday and decided to shift slum dwellers to new apartment buildings at Ammankulam by the end of …
COIMBATORE: Bharathi Park Road, named after the famous Bharathi Park built in 1934, and flanked by the forest college on one side, is known for its greenery and calm atmosphere. "Before Independence, this park was called Goshen Park as the then governor of Madras, H E Viscount Goshen, came to …
N. Sridhar, a resident of Saibaba Colony, installed a 3.5kW rooftop solar energy system in his house over three years ago. The 3,300 sq ft house requires just about three to four units of energy a day as Mr. Sridhar has gone in for energy efficient appliances and gadgets. The …
The Coimbatore Medical College Hospital is making a move towards renewable energy. It will install as many as 45 solar-powered streetlights on its premises. R. Doraiswamy, Coimbatore (South) MLA, under whose constituency the hospital comes, has come forward to bear the entire project cost of Rs. 20 lakh from his …
COIMBATORE: From Monday evening, passengers flying into the city from Sharjah and Singapore will be screened for the Ebola virus. This move comes a day after a man landed in Chennai from Guinea, giving health department officials an Ebola scare. The airport authorities have allowed the public health department to …
COIMBATORE: The city municipal corporation has proposed the setting up of a one megawatt solar power plant at its old dumpyard in Kavundampalayam with an estimated capacity to generate 5,000 units of power, which could be fed into the power grid of TANGEDCO. The council meeting passed a resolution in …
COIMBATORE: The city municipal corporation is finally gearing up to take stern action against the manufacturers of plastic polythene bags below the permissible 40 micron size almost six months after it passed the resolution in the corporation council meeting. The civic body will now start enforcing penalty on manufacturers, suppliers …
At least 59 buildings have been issued notices from the city municipal corporation as part of its drive to ensure whether rainwater harvesting (RWH) structures are installed to conserve water in the coming monsoon spells. The city municipal corporation had earlier announced that all residential and commercials structures should set …
COIMBATORE: In an attempt to ease the flow of traffic on the Ukkadam to Aathupalam stretch, the city corporation is preparing to implement a proposal to strengthen the bunds of Ukkadam Periyakulam, allowing two wheelers to ply along the periphery of the water body. The civic body is expected to …
With the objective to increasing its solar power consumption and thereby reducing its dependence on conventional power, the Coimbatore Corporation on Saturday commissioned solar panels at its main office, a few health establishments and also schools. A release from the civic body said that at the main office, the civic …
Residents of R.K. Naidu Layout say sumps had to be cleaned Residents of R.K. Naidu Layout, off Thadagam Road, had a bad Sunday evening and Monday morning when they realised that the water the Coimbatore Corporation was contaminated with sewage. The residents said that not many residents in apartments realised …
Wards in Vadavalli, Veerakeralam to benefit The Coimbatore Corporation will partially fund the Rs. 42-crore drinking water supply augmentation scheme it has proposed for the Wards in Kavundampalayam, Vadavalli and Veerakeralam. Sources in the civic body said that it would spend Rs. 10 crore and go in for a loan …
Wastes at the Vellalore dump yard are being processed according to rules, said Coimbatore Corporation in its response to a Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board directive. The board in its proceedings on December 26, 2013 said that after its Member Secretary inspected the Vellalore yard, it was found that though …
300 participants from 15 colleges attend NADP-awareness programme Mindless felling of trees has caused extensive damage to environment, making cities a living hell; it is time we took some remedial action,” said Jayashree Muralidharan, Collector, at the “NADP- training and awareness programme for tree cover assessment to combat pollution in …
Proposal cleared for 191-km stretch of NH 209 in Karnataka. Wildlife activists in Tamil Nadu are not happy with the Central Government’s decision to permit the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to widen a 191-km stretch of NH 209 in Karnataka. The Public Private Partnership Appraisal Committee, a high-level …
After completing the first phase of the storm water drain project, the Coimbatore Corporation wing executing projects under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission has started taking steps to start the second phase. According to sources in the civic body, the JNNURM wing had almost completed the first phase …
Asks TWAD Board to conduct feasibility study soon. The Coimbatore Corporation has asked the Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage Board to soon start the feasibility study for a dedicated drinking water supply scheme with Pilloor Dam as the source. According to sources, the Coimbatore Corporation Council passed a resolution …
