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 …
Union Ministry of Power has chosen Coimbatore Corporation for the second prize in the general category of the National Energy Conservation Award-2013. A communiqué from Ministry’s Deputy Secretary says that the Commissioner G. Latha would receive the award from President Pranab Mukherjee on December 16. According to sources, the Corporation …
Conservation of the lakes can significantly enhance the much wanted and rapidly declining underground water availability in and around the growing city of Coimbatore. This was one of the major ecological functions of the lakes possibly conceived by the far-sighted Tamil kings in the past. 800 years old wetland which …
Failure to segregate wastes will invite action: Commissioner On Tuesday, the Coimbatore Corporation officials led by Commissioner G. Latha will hold a meeting with Councillors Venthamarai Balu (Ward 44), S.J. Ashok Kumar (Ward 51), M. Malarvizhi (Ward 67), and S.K. Nijaam (Ward 98) to discuss ways to implement the zero …
Mayor again takes up the matter with Corporation Commissioner Mayor S.M. Velusamy has asked the Coimbatore Corporation Commissioner G. Latha to investigate the way the civic body has implemented the Rs. 98-crore solid waste management (SWM) scheme. After ordering the investigation at the last Ordinary Council Meeting on Friday, he …
The Coimbatore Corporation has chosen a Bangalore-based firm to generate 500 MW power from the waste accumulated in the Corporation areas under a public-private partnership project. Of the five firms that had submitted solid waste management proposals for processing 500 tonnes, the Bangalore firm was short-listed by a committee. The …
For a decade, the Tamil Nadu Groundwater (Development and Management) Act, 2003, which was to usher in a regime of controlling, regulating and administering the precious natural resource, remained only on paper. From September 14, the Act stood repealed as the government promulgated an ordinance to that effect. A senior …
Green Tribunal moved Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Youth Wing Secretary V. Easwaran has moved the National Green Tribunal, Southern Zone, in Chennai seeking orders to shift the Coimbatore Corporation’s dump yard out of Vellalore. In his petition, he has said that the Corporation had been dumping waste in Vellalore without …
Of the 800 tonnes waste the civic body manages everyday, around five per cent is plastics With a renewed vigour the Coimbatore Corporation will soon launch a drive against the use of plastic bags less than 40-micron thickness. The Corporation will table a subject in this regard before the Council …
Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Youth Wing Secretary V. Easwaran has moved the National Green Tribunal, Southern Zone, in Chennai seeking orders to shift the Coimbatore Corporation’s dump yard out of Vellalore. In his petition, he has said that the Corporation had been dumping waste in Vellalore without necessary approval from …
Of the 800 tonnes waste the civic body manages everyday, around five per cent is plastics. With a renewed vigour the Coimbatore Corporation will soon launch a drive against the use of plastic bags less than 40-micron thickness. The Corporation will table a subject in this regard before the Council …
In a couple of months from now, the food served at the Amma canteen at Saravanampatty will be environment friendly in that the food will be cooked using bio-fuel. The Corporation planned to install a biomethanisation plant to power the stoves with methane gas, said Commissioner G. Latha. The food …
In its effort to find a solution to the problem of waste accumulating at the Vellalore dump yard, the Coimbatore Corporation has planned to establish a waste-to-energy plant. According to Commissioner G. Latha, the civic body was in the very initial stages of the project in that it was readying …
Irked over a reply not being filed in a case, the National Green Tribunal has issued an ultimatum to Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) to file its reply on the next hearing, lest it be slapped with Rs. 1 lakh as costs. Following applications by Mayflower Sakthi Garden …
COIMBATORE: Despite the assurances from the city corporation and State Pollution Control Board Officials, medical waste is being dumped inside the city corporation's Vellalore dump yard. Some residents have pointed out that fresh sacks filled with syringes, blood vials and bags used in hospitals and medical facilities have been found …
In its efforts towards improving waste collection and transportation, the Coimbatore Corporation would study the Warangal model of waste management, said Commissioner G. Latha. Speaking to reporters at the end of a slide show presentation at the Corporation Kalaiarangam in the city on Tuesday, she said that the Corporation would …
The waste management scenario in Coimbatore was lagging behind due to inadequate infrastructure and was unable to meet the norms stipulated under the MSW Rules, 2000. Hence, the SWM project under JnNURM was prepared with a view to augment the existing solid waste management system by adopting an integrated approach.
Titled as 'The Chennai Residential Real Estate Report', it also said the housing loan market of Chennai was expected to be Rs 800-900 crore, calculated on a monthly basis The demand for housing in Chennai is expected to be in the range of 30,000-35,000 units annually, driven mainly by IT …
Coimbatore Corporation is going to replicate a Singapore power project that utilises domestic waste to generate electricity. Mayor S.M. Velusamy told journalists here on Thursday that half the 800 tonnes of waste generated every day in the city was disposed of through landfills at Vellalore, and the rest could be …
Cities are creaking under their own weight. And heat. In Surat, for instance, parts of the city with dense concrete jungles swelter at temperatures 5 degrees higher than the city’s greener parts. This phenomenon, of parts of a city having higher temperature than the remaining areas, is called an ‘urban …
New Delhi: Delhi has the lowest proportion of working women in any major Indian city, analysis of newly released Census data confirms. Kolkata and Mumbai have nearly double the proportion of working women as the capital, and southern cities including Coimbatore and Bengaluru are at the highest end of the …
