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 …
VELLORE: Pennathur town panchayat councillor A.M. Venkatesan complained to the Tamil Nadu Assembly Petitions Committee, which visited the Government Vellore Medical College Hospital (GVMCH) in Adukkamparai on Tuesday, that liquid effluents discharged by the hospital were let into an irrigation tank in Sabdalipuram leading to contamination of groundwater in the …
VELLORE: Collector C. Rajendran has directed officials of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) to immediately visit the places in the Ambur area where there were complaints of tanneries discharging untreated effluents into the Palar, and identify and close such tanneries. He was presiding over a monthly agriculturists' grievance …
Awareness programme for officials representing rural development department in Thane district On waste management: C. Srinivasan, Project Director, Indian Green Service, at a training programme in Vellore on Wednesday. VELLORE: Several States in the country have started showing interest in emulating the
VELLORE: The residents of Vellore Corporation are facing an acute drinking water scarcity for the last more than two months, with the Corporation being in a position to supply drinking water through the distribution lines only once in 10 to 15 days in most areas. A visit to different areas …
VELLORE: Vellore Collector C. Rajendran has asked tanneries in Vellore district to strictly follow the safety protocol stipulated by the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) while engaging its workers to clean effluent tanks on their premises. He said this at meetings with tannery owners of Ambur, Vaniyambadi and Pernambut …
FIVE persons, including three brothers, were asphyxiated to death after poisonous gas emanated from a chemical tank which they were cleaning at a leather factory at Vaniyambadi on Friday. Vaniyambadi DSP Gurusamy said that on Friday morning, a group of five contract labourers were cleaning the chemical tanks in a …
V NarayanaMurthi | ENS A PROPOSAL to reclaim the tannery polluted lands of the Vellore district using the process of bio-remediation through bamboo cultivation is being advocated by the fulltime member of the State Planning Commission Dr G Kumaravelu. A retired IFS officer who has served in Vellore earlier, Kumaravelu …
VELLORE: Mass cultivation of bamboo and `malai vembu' (a variety of neem grown in the hills) could be taken up in Vellore district for bio-remediation of polluted soil, prevention of pollution from tannery and sewage effluents and to prevent global warming, according to G. Kumaravelu, full time member of the …
Virudhunagar worst hit; funds for other districts after getting report CHENNAI: The government on Thursday sanctioned Rs. 18 crore from the Calamity Relief Fund to overcome the drinking water shortage in 10 districts. Virudhunagar, Tiruvallur, Dharmapuri, Salem, Villupuram, Krishnagiri, Vellore, Tiruvannamalai, Dindigul and Namakkal districts will be benefited. Making a …
V NarayanaMurthi | ENS A SUSPECTED group of poachers hurled petrol bombs and opened 10 to 15 rounds of fire with their country-made guns after the forest personnel narrowed in on them at the Ambur reserved forest area, bordering Tirupattur and Vellore forest divisions on Monday. However, no one was …
VELLORE: Work on the Cauvery Integrated Drinking Water Supply Scheme to be implemented at a cost of Rs.1,800 crore to bring water from the Cauvery River to Vellore district would be started soon, according to Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin. Addressing a public meeting organised by the Vellore district Dravida …
V NarayanaMurthi | ENS PRESIDENTS of Sathuvachari near here have opposed the erection of mobile phone towers in their vicinity citing possible harmful electromagnetic radiation (EMR). While urging the district administration to ban the setting up of such towers in residential areas, they also demanded that the State government formulate …
V NarayanaMurthi | ENS Vellore, THE dryland farmers, hitherto functioning under various associations in and around Natrampalli, have been brought under an umbrella network of Uzhavar Maamandram, thanks to the initiative of Dhan Foundation, an NGO. The peasants were trying to revive farming activities under rain-fed conditions for the past …
VELLORE: The Vellore Citizens' Welfare Forum (VCWF) has opposed the proposal of the Union government, announced in the recent budget, of a one-time grant of Rs.200 crore for dyeing industries of Tirupur to enable them solve the problem of pollution. A resolution was adopted at an executive committee meeting of …
PMK founder S. Ramadoss and former Union Minister Anbumani Ramadoss along with party cadre staging a novel agitation in front of the Collectorate in Dharmapuri on Thursday. DHARMAPURI: Pattali Makkal Katchi founder S. Ramadoss has urged the government to declare Dharmapuri, Krishnagiri, Salem, Namakkal and Vellore districts drought-prone. He told …
CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has directed the Vellore Collector to take action against those illegally mining sand from the Palar riverbed. A Division Bench headed by Justice Elipe Dharma Rao passed the order on a petition by K.L. Elavazhagan, Arcot MLA. The legislator sought to quash an order of …
V NarayanaMurthi A CPCB report says the quality of air, land and underground water of the district is alarmingly polluted VELLORE has been rated among the top 10 `alarmingly polluted clusters' in the country. It has become an environmental time bomb, ticking away with the rise in industrial pollution here. …
Call for including disaster management in curriculum DINDIGUL: Massive urbanisation and air pollution are the major factors for the rise in temperature and global warming. Balanced growth in the development and protection of nature, particularly eco system, is the need of the hour to check rise in temperature, said S.R. …
Planning based on agro-ecological zoning aims at scientific management of regional resources to meet the food, fibre, fodder and fuel wood requirements without adversely affecting the status of natural resources and environment. An attempt has been made to map the agro-ecological units for Vellore district of Tamil Nadu and derive …
