Tuticorin: A team of officials from the ministry of environment, forests and climate change regional office (South Eastern Zone), Chennai, on Wednesday inspected the site where Sterlite had started expansion work before it was stopped due to protests by the villagers and activists last February. The inspection was based on …
Tuticorin: A team of officials from the ministry of environment, forests and climate change regional office (South Eastern Zone), Chennai, on Wednesday inspected the site where Sterlite had started expansion work before it was stopped due to protests by the villagers and activists last February. The inspection was based on …
Even turbine makers hold right to access PGCIL’s sub-stations; remedy the situation, ministry tells CERC Independent wind power producers, especially those in wind-rich areas, are stuck in a logjam, as they are unable to find channels to evacuate power from their ongoing or upcoming projects. They have been crowded out …
Land was leased to Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation In a landmark judgment, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Friday ordered that 8,373 acres in the possession of Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation (BBTC) in Kalakad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, Tirunelveli, be notified as reserve forest. BBTC, in a revision petition, …
Work on linking Tamiraparani, Karumeniyar and Nambiyar to benefit drought-prone areas on Tirunelveli and Tuticorin is slowing gaining momentum. Will the constitution of a task force by the Central government for expediting linking of rivers work in Tamil Nadu? Mired in politics, the Tamiraparani, Karumeniyar and Nambiyar river linking project …
Involves an investment outlay of about Rs.66 crore Brakes India, a leading auto parts firm, has set up a 7.72-MW solar power plant at its facility at Munanjipatti in Tirunelveli district in Tamil Nadu. The plant involved an investment outlay of about Rs.66 crore. It has been set up under …
The Tirunelveli Corporation has drawn a plan to install solar power panels on its administrative building on an outlay of Rs. 42 lakh. In view of gap between energy requirement and availability of quality power, the government wants installation of solar power panels. The Department of Local Administration has identified …
The 1,000-MWe nuclear plant generated 160 MWe before being halted for routine check. The first 1,000-MWe unit of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project, now but one stage away from commission, was on Tuesday synchronised with the southern regional grid. Initially, at 2.45 a.m., the first reactor generated 75MWe and gradually …
It was that found Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan were better prepared and more aware to implement project Coimbatore is likely to be a part of an international effort to build sustainable, low carbon cities, if things go as planned by ICLEI, an NGO, and the British High Commission. The project …
British High Commission-supported project to promote use of renewable energy The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI), an international organisation offering technical consultation, training, and information services for capacity building and support to local governments in the implementation of sustainable development will soon come out with an action plan …
Westerly winds have started blowing in the district With the setting of the much awaited westerly winds, sweltering heat and power cuts have almost vanished to a great extent in Tirunelveli and the neighbouring Kanyakumari district. The giant metallic turbine blades of nearly 3,000 windmills of Muppandal have started rotating …
Chennai to get 250, including 100 mini-buses, says Transport Minister Three thousand new buses will be introduced this year at a cost of Rs.548 crore for the State, and the city will get 250 buses, including 100 mini-buses, Transport Minister V. Senthil Balaji informed the Assembly on Tuesday The mini-buses …
All-time low of 29 against the maximum capacity of 143 feet TIRUNELVELI: Even as storage level at Papanasam dam, the mainstay of the district's irrigation system, touched the all-time low of 29 feet against the maximum capacity of 143 feet on Tuesday, isolated rain spell was experienced in some parts …
A total of 509 toilets have been constructed in schools against the district administration's target of 532. Moreover, toilets have been constructed in all the anganvadis in the district Of one lakh toi lets planned under the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) in the district, 86,644 have been constructed at houses …
The Green Ventures Carbon Fund has tied up with a few major European financial partners and are actively looking for Indian strategic partners and project developers either for carbon credits or to jointly set up environment friendly projects. Though names of the partners was not revealed, Green Ventures India MD …
2 persons hospitalised each week; 25 fish released in contaminated water died BY V KRITHIGA Tirunelveli The villagers of Poolangulam (near Alangulam), are in deep trouble and confusion due to repeated illnesses caused in their village. Though the villagers argue that the illness is due to the contaminated drinking water, …
When the entire nation is working for the dream project of linking all the rivers across the nation, the Tamirabarani River, one of the two perennial rivers in Tamil Nadu, is going through a dark phase. as 70 per cent of the river stands polluted. The river, which originates more …
Joint Forest Management (JFM) is an organic process targeting the regeneration of degraded forests by involving the local community and operates on the interaction between the Forest Department and the local community. Successful formation and functioning of Village Forest Councils (VFCs) is the key factor that decides the success of …
