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 …
P.V. Srividya People express strong opposition to the project at Maruthampallam NAGAPATTINAM: A public hearing on a proposed 2x500 MW coal-based thermal power plant at Maruthampallam village in Sirkazhi taluk was postponed amid opposition to the project from the public gathered there on Tuesday evening. Could affect 3 villages The …
NAGAPATTINAM: Voluntary organisations should play a crucial role in moulding mindsets towards sanitation and solid waste management, said Collector C. Munianathan at the Triple Ecosan Toilet festival at Kameshwaram village in Nagapattinam. According to him, over 60 per cent of the houses in coastal areas practise open defecation causing environmental …
Nagapattinam district in Tamil Nadu has a coastline of 161 km.The Government of India through its Ministry of Environment and Forests and the Wetland and Wildlife Management Division funds various olive ridley conservation projects every year along this coast. A description of various activities carried out along the Nagapattinam coast …
? A massive earthquake of magnitude 9.0 hit Indonesia off the west coast of Sumatra on the morning of December 26,2004, at 6:58 a.m. Another earthquake of magnitude 7.3 occurred 81km west of Pulo Kunji (Great Nicobar, India) at 9:51 a.m. on the same day. The earthquakes set off giant …
NAGAPATTINAM: Kameshwaram panchayat in Nagapattinam has exemplified that ecological and sanitation concerns are no more elitist preoccupations. It has shown the way forward with about 80 families of fishing community, owning ECOSAN toilets. The maiden collection of the compost commenced at a couple of residences recently, testifying to the ecological …
P.V. Srividya PREVENTION IS BETTER: Suresh Mariaselvam, disaster risk management consultant, speaking at a seminar in Nagapattinam Collectorate on Friday NAGAPATTINAM: Decades of development is devastated in a minute-long disaster. This was reiterated at the District Risk Management Programme organised by the State Government and supported by the United Nations …
257 tsunami houses in Sinnangudi in advanced stage of construction INSPECTION: Nagapattinam Collector C. Munianathan, right, inspecting tsunami houses constructed by Rajiv Gandhi Rehabilitation project at Chinnakudi village. NAGAPATTINAM: A total of 3,095 development works are under execution under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme on an outlay of Rs. …
THANJAVUR: A seminar on profitable fish farming was jointly organised by Americal Soyabean Association Marketing (ASA-IM), Sustainable Research Foundation, Maanal Fish Farm and Everest Aqua Tech at Orathanadu, 20 km from here on Monday. About 120 fish farmers from Thanjavur, Tiruvarur and Nagapattinam districts participated in the seminar, said a …
Nalini Ravichandran | ENS Safai Karamchari Aandolan study in 8 districts shows practice continues; to knock court doors on Tuesday DESPITE the Madras High Court order on November 20, 2008 which called for the prohibition of entry of sanitary workers into the sewerage system, manual cleaners are being made to …
FIRST OF ITS KIND: A.K.Hazarika, Director (Onshore), ONGC (second from left),taking a look at the VAP project at the Kuthalam plant of ONGC in Nagapattinam on Wednesday. KUTHALAM (NAGAPATTINAM DISTRICT): Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Limited is preparing deepwater east coast development project following discovery of some oilfields and …
NAGAPATTINAM: A large number of men and women from several villages blocked road on Thulajapuram road near Vedaranyam on Wednesday demanding the district administration to take immediate steps to provide protected drinking water supply. The protestors complained that many villages were not getting water for several months through the Anaikarai …
Four years after the tsunami, the people of Poompuhar lead a well-settled life. You can see resettled villages of fishing and farming communities with neat rows of houses. There are well laid out roads flanked by neon street lights. The transformation of 10 villages in this panchayat is the handiwork …
When the tsunami struck the coast of Tamil Nadu four years ago, the village of Poompuhar in Sirkali taluk of Nagapattinam district as one of the worst affected. When the waves withdrew, more than death stalked the coastline. With livelihoods and homes gone, Nagapattinam was a land of the living …
NAGAPATTINAM: The authorities of the famous Velankanni church (Shrine Basilica of Our Lady of Health) on Tuesday launched a solid waste management project at a cost of Rs. 1 crore in the campus to maintain hygiene and public health as lakhs of pilgrims from various parts of the country visit …
NAGAPATTINAM: Several rural development works including creation and deepening of tanks and ponds, desilting of irrigation channels and laying of mud roads are in full swing in Nagapattinam district under the National Rural Employment Guarantee (NREG) scheme and nearly Rs.61 crore had so far been disbursed as wages to the …
R Venkatramani NAGAPATTINAM: Hundreds of rare species of conches, kept in 191 gunny bags for smuggling, were seized by the Forest Department officials at Nagapattinam on Saturday. The officials are on the look out for the persons who were allegedly involved in the smuggling attempt. Addressing reporters, Nagai District Wildlife …
NAGAPATTINAM: Procurement of samba paddy by the Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation (TNCSC) in the Cauvery delta region of Nagapattinam district has exceeded the target on Friday by purchasing 2.14 lakh tonnes against the target of two lakh tonnes. S.Viswanathan, Senior Regional Manager, TNCSC, Nagapattinam, told The Hindu on Friday …
Coastal zone is highly volatile ecosystem which is always in adjustments. Loss of shore line will cause severe impact on human life and as well as their properties. Remote sensing is a reliable technique to study the historical shoreline changes. Therefore in this paper long term shoreline oscillations of Cauvery …
NAGAPATTINAM: The increase in demand of fish and fishery products could be met only by increasing the production through aquaculture and the global demand has been growing steadily, said Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Jairam Ramesh on Sunday. Rs. 100 crore allotted Presiding over the inauguration of …
