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 …
Erode City Municipal Corporation report to the National Green Tribunal dated 22/08/2023. Implementation of Solid Waste Management Rules 2016 and Plastic Waste Management Rules 2016 has been enforced in the Erode City Municipal Corporation. The target of 100 per cent processing and disposal of wet waste, dry waste and construction …
Report by the Erode city municipal corporation submitted to the National Green Tribunal on the matter of dried Cauvery river filled up with waste water. Sewage of 33.75 MLD is generated from Erode city municipal corporation limit. The corporation has installed a sewage treatment plant with a capacity of 50.55 …
Teaming up with the Young Indians of Confederation of Indian Industry, Erode Zone, the Olirum Erodu Foundation (OEF), an organisation working for transforming the face of the city, has collected 6,000 kg of electronic waste since June last year. Students of six schools were instrumental in collecting and depositing half-a-tonne …
While TRADE and industry organisations are eager to provide their suggestions on Erode’s REQUIREMENTS for transforming into a Smart City, there is no clarity on the process involved. Perceived emphasis of the Central Government on e-governance without any mention about infrastructure development by the City Corporation identified for the project …
In 2009, the Erode Municipal Corporation had set up an organic manure manufacturing facility. But, the project to recycle waste from the district has failed to benefit farmers of Erode and surrounding areas. Tamilaga Vivasayigal Sangam, organizing secretary, Logusamy C, said, "I am aware that there is a facility that …
Following a fire that erupted at the Vendipalayam yard The civic body on Thursday devised a plan for better solid waste management at Vendipalayam by involving a Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) expert. Of the daily generation of close to 300 tonnes of garbage in the city limits, 250 tonnes …
A solar panel put up with the money sanctioned from constituency development fund of DMDK MLA V.C. Chandrakumar was commissioned on the premises of Government Headquarters Hospital recently. The panel worth Rs. 5 lakh was sanctioned two months ago by Mr. Chandrakumar. Power generated from the panel would meet the …
Effluent discharged into River Cauvery by dyeing units in Pallipalayam is polluting the water released from Mettur Dam to meet drinking water needs in Erode city. There is no doubt that Cauvery water contaminated by the effluent would cause skin problems and other serious ailments, acknowledge Pollution Control Board officials. …
Shredding machines installed in each of the four zones The Erode City Corporation has scaled-up usage of waste plastic materials for relaying of roads, as a way of addressing the challenge of solid waste management. Thirteen stretches to a cumulative length of 13.6 km were taken up for relaying using …
The amount will be spent to sink 59 borewellsin different parts of the town The Erode Corporation has received a sum of Rs. 1.70 crore from the State government to improve the water supply provisions and ensure adequate supply to the residents in the town. The sum, according to Mayor …
To be implemented on a public-private partnership mode The Erode Corporation will soon replace conventional fluorescent lamps with energy-efficient LED lamps for street lighting in the district. According to sources, the process of selecting the contractor is nearing completion. The civic body has come up with the plan as its …
People say the units are polluting Cauvery and Bhavani rivers Residents of Suriyampalayam have appealed to the district administration to shut down all the polluting textile processing and tannery units in Erode town and its surroundings. A number of textile processing and tannery units in the district were dumping huge …
Eco-friendly bags distributed to people The Erode Corporation has intensified its campaign against the use of plastic and polythene containers by joining hands with non-governmental organisations and business establishments. On Sunday, JCI Erode along with the civic body launched an initiative to distribute eco-friendly bags to the people in the …
The industrial clusters based in Greater Kochi fall into the group of cities with high pollution levels, as per a study done by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in association with Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi. The study had carried out an environmental assessment of industrial clusters across …
A threat to health, environment The indiscriminate act of dumping hazardous solid waste on the roadsides has commenced once again in Erode town and its suburbs. More than 50 bags of sludge from the textile processing and tannery units have been dumped in Choolai, a thickly populated residential colony in …
Higher Education Minister P. Palaniappan has appealed to engineering students to come up with cost-effective technologies to augment power generation using renewable energy sources. There is an immediate need for innovative, low-cost technologies to enhance power generation using renewable energy sources, including solar power, as the energy requirement in the …
Residential areas covered by blanket of smoke for five days Vendipalayam and many other residential areas near the town are covered by a blanket of smoke for the past five days as heaps of garbage dumped in the Erode Corporation's yard continue to burn. A major fire broke out in …
The Bhavani Municipality has a quick-fix method to clean up the holy site of Kooduthurai. It removes the waste from the holy site and dumps it into the Cauvery River. So, the more spruced up and clean Kooduthurai is, the dirtier Cauvery will be. Kooduthurai, where the Rivers Bhavani, Cauvery …
Erode Corporation has completed preparation of a detailed project report for its ambitious Uratchikottai Water Supply scheme with the cost estimated to be Rs. 407 crore. The civic body will implement the scheme with funds from Tamil Nadu Urban Infrastructure Financial Services Limited (TNUIFSL) with assistance from German Development Bank …
CHENNAI: In a bid to make the state slum-free, the Tamil Nadu government has selected nine urban agglomerations under the Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) for preparing proper rehabilitation plans. Official sources told Express that the likely nine cities are Chennai, Madurai, Coimbatore, Erode, Tiruppur, Tiruchy, Tirunelveli, Salem and Vellore. Sources …
