Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
The Tamil Nadu Government has sanctioned over Rs 115 crore for two projects under the Irrigated Agriculture Modernisation and Water Bodies Restoration and Management programme to modernise irrigation infrastructure in major sub-basins. The projects will benefit farmers in Kanchipuram, Thiruvallur and Tiruvannamalai districts where irrigation infrastructure covering 1.36 lakh acres …
Urbanisation was the most significant between 1991 and 2001: data Nearly half the population of Tamil Nadu live in urban areas, as the State continues to maintain its status as one of the country's most urbanised ones. Provisional data released by the Census Directorate based on the 2011 headcount shows …
Chennai city has three lakh more people living in it now than it had in 2001. The growth of population in the past decade has been at a rate of 7.8 pc, remarkably lower than the anticipated double digit growth, given the IT and hospitality sector boom in the corresponding …
Nalini Ravichandran | ENS CHEWING tobacco is no better than smoking when it comes to the ill health effects. But a research done on 65,000 persons in the districts of Thiruvallur and Kancheepuram has revealed that more than 12 per cent of those studied, above the age group of 20, …
Sharadha Narayanan | ENS Only seven of the total 13,702 tanks fenced; 4,695 yet to cross survery stage; 1,978 tenements on water bodies in Chennai alone FIVE years after the Madras High Court ordered that all encroachments to water bodies in the State be cleared, the Public Works Department (PWD) …
The lorries were seized by the Revenue Department officials KANCHEEPURAM: Show cause notices have been issued to the owners of 20 sand lorries seized by the District Revenue Department officials at Sathanancheri in Uthiramerur taluk. According to official sources, the Uthiramerur tasildar, Kasthuri received a tip off that sand was …
G Babu Jayakumar | ENS Public hearings are meant to elicit people's views on upcoming projects, though authorities are not obliged to act on them.They are meant to be free, frank and transparent. But transparency is something alien to officials in India It all started with a proposed power project …
Dennis Selvan |IN what is considered to be a `turf war' between State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu Ltd (Sipcot) and the sons of the soil for control of the precious turf itself, the lure of lucre is at its core in the industrial vicinity of Sriperumbudur.It is a …
Until 10 years ago, Alandur, a residential suburb of Chennai in the Kanchipuram district, famous for its ancient temples, had no underground sewerage. As in 80 per cent of the metropolitan area outside the city of Chennai, most households depended on septic tanks with soak pits. The urban landscape of …
Deepa H Ramakrishnan CHENNAI: The common biomedical waste facility functioning at Thenmelpakkam in Kancheepuram district is all set for an upgrade, with the Global Environment Fund, an international funding body under the United Nations Development Programme, agreeing to provide $2,58,000 for the project. The upgrade would involve strengthening of the …
While management of natural resources is crucial, micro finance is a catalyst for achieving sustainable agriculture. The experience of HIH shows how micro finance has played a supportive role in the ecological journey of a large number of farmers in Tamil Nadu.
V. Venkatasubramanian KANCHEEPURAM: Residents of Kancheepuram Municipality have started feeling the pinch of drinking water shortage with a sudden and steep reduction in daily water supply duration. Normally, daily protected piped water supply would be maintained for two to three hours or even for four hours on weekends and on …
TAMIL Nadu is planning to increase the forest area in the State to 33 per cent and the State forest department has launched a slew of measures to attain the target, according to forest officials.
The court had passed the earlier order on a petition which sought to restrain the PWD from using machinery CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has modified its earlier direction to the authorities not to use any machinery for sand quarrying in Palar river bed in some villages in Kancheepuram and …
MODIFYING its earlier order, a division bench of the Madras High Court on Friday permitted the contractors of the State PWD department to use machineries for quarrying sand from Palar river in Kancheepuram and Tiru- vannamalai districts with the ap- proval of the authorities con- cerned.
P.Oppili Says a report released by the Forest Survey of India CHENNAI: There has been a marginal increase in the forest cover in the State, according to a report released by the Forest Survey of India (FSI) recently. As per the data the increase has been recorded as 24 square …
A SILENT revolution is sprouting out of Andhra soil. Just like the free distribution of colour television sets by the Tamil Nadu government, the Andhra Pradesh government is distributing portable soil testing kit that helps ascertain the fertility of the soil. Dr S Riazuddin Ahmed, retired principal scientist of Acharya …
Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) plans to set up a 4,000 MW capacity ultra mega power project at Cheyyur in Tamil Nadu's Kanchipuram district, a top company official said on Monday. At present, NLC generates 2,490 MW power from three power stations here, Mr A. R. Ansari, chairman- cum-managing director of …
KANCHEEPURAM: Two teams of experts from National Institute of Communicable Diseases, New Delhi, and National Institute of Virology, Pune, are in Tamil Nadu to determine the causes of the
