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 …
Power cuts leave traffic constables in the “red” With the power cut duration stretching for nearly eight hours in the last couple of days, the City Police have asked the sponsors of all traffic signals in the city to power them with solar energy. Conversion of these signals to solar …
The Ministry will fund States to enable them to have better grid to evacuate power The renewable energy sector in the country should focus on indigenisation, Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah, said here on Monday. Inaugurating the third International Wind Conference and Exhibition (WE20 by 2020), …
The Coimbatore Corporation is moving towards the status of a “Solar city”, which is aimed at reducing the conventional energy consumption by a minimum of 10 per cent at the end of five years, through a combination of enhancing supply from renewable energy sources and energy efficiency measures. The initiative …
Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Managing Director E. Sreedharan says that magnetic levitation (maglev) technology, which will be introduced in Phase III of the project in the city, has “tremendous scope”. Speaking about the successful high-speed maglev projects in China, South Korea and Japan, Mr. Sreedharan said: “The main advantage of …
As the Coimbatore Corporation Mayor and Commissioner take off to New Delhi to attend a conference on the eve of the sixth year of the implementation of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, things on the ground are not all that good. Almost all the projects the Corporation is …
Five major road works will take off in the city shortly, at a total cost of Rs. 13.3 crore, and these would be completed by the end of March next year. An official of the State Highways Department told The Hindu on Friday that 2.5 km stretch from Avila Convent …
The Tamil Nadu Agricultural University has on Friday commissioned a solid waste management facility at its campus. K. Ramasamy, Member, State Planning Commission, and Vice Chancellor, Karpagam University, commissioned the Rs. 80 lakh project in the presence of P. Murugesa Boopathi, Vice-Chancellor, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University. The university will use …
Urbanisation in India is occurring at a rate that is faster compared to many other parts of the developing world. The Planning Commission of the Government of India estimates that about 40 per cent of the country’s population will be residing in urban areas by 2030. However, as conurbations and …
Tamil Nadu, the most urbanised among the large States in India, has witnessed uneven urban growth. The recently released 2011 census data on urban agglomerations shows that, in the last decade, about half of the increase (about 7.4 million) in urban population has mostly occurred in four urban agglomerations: Chennai, …
Expansion of area, fewer conservancy workers, increase in quantity of garbage and above all, high expectation from the city's residents – these are a few challenges that stare in the face of the Coimbatore Corporation. At least, as far as solid waste management is concerned. The Corporation's area has gone …
Coimbatore Corporation has lined up a couple of projects to improve water supply for not only the city but also for areas to be annexed. And thereby ensure parity in supply. Official sources say that as per the Government of India norms the Corporation has to supply 135 litres per …
Local body does not have wherewithal to manage its waste Vellalore town panchayat has sought permission to use the Coimbatore Corporation's solid waste management facility. The Corporation has the facility - a waste segregation plant and landfill site within the town panchayat limits. In the run up to the expansion …
200 tonnes more of waste will be generated in future If all goes well, Coimbatore Corporation will go in for two more transit stations to manage the waste generated in the 11 local bodies that will soon be a part of the city. The Corporation has at present four transit …
Contractor used earth mover to uproot tree in city Removal of a tree using an earth mover by a contractor for the purpose of constructing storm water drain along Dr.Balasundaram Road near the RTO office on Wednesday afternoon led to protest by non-Governmental organisations involved in conservation of nature. It …
Takes up underground drainage repair work Faeces and other dirt flow into the Muthannan lake. The sewage flows after the Coimbatore Corporation diverted it from the underground drainage network near Gandhi Park. The lake is one among the eight the Corporation took over for maintenance from the Public Works Department. …
COIMBATORE: The four-month-long hiatus in conducting the Coimbatore Corporation Council meet did very little to cool Councillors, who were angry over the lack of progress on various development projects. No sooner the Council meeting began on Monday morning than the Councillors were up on their feet complaining about poor drinking …
Siruthuli and RAAC join hands to plant 1,04,572 trees in 2011 COIMBATORE: Siruthuli and Residents Awareness Association of Coimbatore on Sunday launched
About 5,000 kg of plastic bags less than 40 microns thick seized in raids COIMBATORE: Following the Plastic Waste (Management and Handling) Rules 2011, issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forest, the Coimbatore Corporation initiated action against plastic manufacturers and traders as well. The Corporation said plastic or carry …
Local bodies need to evolve a strong system of collection and disposal COIMBATORE: A fresh crackdown embarked upon a couple of months ago against plastics by the Coimbatore Corporation signalled yet another brave attempt at curbing a problem that has actually managed to prevail over similar efforts so far. Plastics, …
Coimbatore: Osai, a non-governmental organisation involved in conservation of ecology, has welcomed the announcement in the Governor's address to the Legislative Assembly outlining the decision of the Government to enforce a ban on plastics especially those measuring less them 60 microns. President of OSAI K. Kalidasan in a statement thanked …
