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 …
Prevalence of kidney stone disease is common in Trichy city and even in adjacent areas. Middle-aged people are more vulnerable. Male are more vulnerable than the female. According to Saturation Index, all the groundwater sources in Trichy Town have the Crystallization (stone forming) tendency.
Special Correspondent TIRUCHI: Mobilising community support was essential for the success of solid and liquid waste management programmes, observed speakers at a dissemination workshop on decentralised solid and liquid waste management here on Thursday. Over 30 executive officers of town panchayats in Tiruchi, Pudukottai, Ariyalur and Perambalur districts and representatives …
1,464 km of highways in the State would be developed TIRUCHI: An outlay of Rs. 9,880 crore is expected to be invested under the third phase of the National Highways Development Project (NHDP), Union Minister of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways T. R. Baalu said. Speaking after inaugurating the Padalur-Samayapuram …
TIRUCHI: Decentralised and community-based systems could provide an efficient and cost-effective solution for individual houses, apartments and colonies in urban centres. While centralised treatment systems required huge capital investments and could pose problems in terms of maintenance and efficiency, decentralised system offered a viable alternative for management of wastewater. This …
Scheme provides for bank loans to start ventures involving Rs. 25 lakh investment TIRUCHI: The Central government has allotted Rs. 163.50 lakh to Tiruchi district for disbursal as subsidy amounts under the new Prime Minister
TIRUCHI: Eco-clubs will be started in an additional 5,000 schools during the academic year 2009-10, the Director, State Department of Environment, R. Annamalai, said. Speaking at a function after distributing grants to the tune of Rs. 7.25 lakh to the National Green Corps and Eco-Clubs in Tiruchi district at a …
This is a study of social mobility over 25 years in six villages in the former Tiruchirapalli district in Tamil Nadu. The two most important external drivers are local industrialisation and social policy in a broad sense. It is shown that the overall effect seems to be a centripetal tendency …
TIRUCHI: Tiruchi has bagged the highest number of Nirmal Puraskar Awards for 2008 in the State. The annual awards are given by the Union government for cent per cent achievement in village sanitation. As many as 110 panchayats in the district have got the award this year, followed by 98 …
R.Rajaram FOREST MOVE: Teak trees planted along the banks of the Uyyakondan river in Tiruchi. Similar exercise will be undertaken on private lands. TIRUCHI: The Social Forestry Division, Tiruchi has commenced the work of planting teak and casuarina saplings in private lands belonging to farmers in Tiruchi and Nagapattinam districts …
FUTURE PERFECT: Students of Rajah Serfoji Government Arts College in Thanjavur planting tree saplings on Tuesday. TIRUCHI: Bharathidasan University took a major step towards increasing green cover in association with the Isha Yoga Centre by getting over one lakh saplings planted in 250 villages across eight districts in its jurisdiction …
TIRUCHI: Towards increasing the green cover and safeguarding the environment, Bharathidasan University will involve over 20,000 NSS volunteers to plant one lakh saplings in 250 villages on October 21 across eight districts in its jurisdiction. With the saplings provided by Isha Yoga Centre under its Pasumai Karangal Programme, the volunteers …
The widely accepted view that emphasises the negative impact of the decline in common property resources on the village poor generally presumes that village common lands would have been used by all villagers inclusive of the poor without serious differences in the right to access them. Mainly based on historical …
M. J. PRABU The formulation can be used as a spray for a variety of crops Mr. N. Gopalakrishnan (standing), demonstrating to farmers the manufacture of the egg lime formulation. Power cuts, fertilizer shortage, high input costs, absence of reliable marketing channels and labour shortage are plaguing most of the …
Chennai THE biggest impediment in reviving the ooranies in the state seems to be encroachments, which have rendered the water bodies dry. At least 70 per cent of the 431 village ponds in Madurai district are rain fed and the rest are fed with water discharged from the Periyar for …
TIRUCHI: About seven lakh ration card holders in the district would benefit from the supply of rice at Re.1 a kg through the public distribution system, said Transport Minister K.N. Nehru. Inaugurating the supply of the subsidised rice at a ration shop at Woraiyur here on Tuesday, Mr. Nehru said …
TIRUCHI: Over 3.06 lakh persons have registered for jobs under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in Tiruchi district. Over 843 works, at an estimated cost of Rs.31.85 crore, have been taken up under the scheme, implemented in all the 408 village panchayats of the district, Collector T. Soundiah …
On Duty: Transport Minister K. N. Nehru distributing pamphlets to traders in Gandhi Market in Tiruchi on Tuesday. Mayor Sarubala R. Tondaiman is seen. TIRUCHI: The ban on production and use of plastics below 20 microns in thickness will come into effect in the City from September 1. Ahead of …
