Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In re : News item appearing in Hindu dated 11.12.2023 titled “Cauvery basin lost nearly 12,850 sq.km. of green cover” dated 10/01/2024. The original application is registered suo motu on the basis of the news item titled “Cauvery basin lost …
Ramadoss for a meeting of Chief Ministers concerned THANJAVUR: Pattali Makkal Katchi founder S. Ramadoss on Thursday called for negotiated settlements on the Cauvery, Palar, Mullaperiyar river issues with the involvement of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. He told reporters here on Thursday that the solution for all these issues lay …
Even as the Tamil Nadu Government is pressurising the Union Government to direct Karnataka to release water, the Cauvery Hitharakshana Samithi took exception to TN
Satish Shile, Bangalore, Aug 25, DHNS: Residents of Lakshmisagar Layout in Mahadevpura have not faced shortage of drinking water in the past 25 years. Every alternate day they are assured of drinking water supply for at least 45 minutes to one hour. The monthly water bill is a mere Rs …
T. RamakrishnanCHENNAI: The Monitoring Committee of the Cauvery River Authority will meet in New Delhi on August 24 against the backdrop of rising deficit in receipt of Cauvery water for Tamil Nadu.The present storage position of reservoirs in the Cauvery basin is one of the items on the agenda of …
Deepa H Ramakrishnan and K.Lakshmi Testing stations proposed in Poondi, Red Hills, Porur, Pulicat Veeranam lake also to get similar facility Proposal for setting up 23 monitoring stations submitted to CPCB CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board plans to establish facilities to monitor the quality of water at waterbodies …
104 dams to be renovated on an outaly of Rs. 750 croreMADURAI: Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi has sought release of funds from the Union Government for interlinking the rivers
Minister for Water Resources Basavaraj Bommai said it is impossible to release water to Tamil Nadu from reservoirs in the Cauvery river basin till all the reservoirs are filled. Addressing mediapersons in Bangalore on Thursday, the minister said the water level in Krishnaraja Sagar dam stood at 91.3 feet. The …
THE Institute of Remote Sensing, Anna University on Thursday identified 756 vulnerable pockets in the city in areas like GN Chetty Road, Virugambakkam, MKB Nagar, East-Velachery and Porur as areas with high risk of flooding, after it had conducted a flood-risk mapping of Chennai and its suburbs using ultra modern …
Low water levels in reservoirs of the Cauvery basin is threatening to trigger off another battle for waters of the River Cauvery between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu has shot off a letter to the State Government demanding release of 5 TMC ft of Cauvery water immediately for the …
KARUR: The All India Youth Federation (AIYF) has called upon authorities to prevent the further degradation of rivers Cauvery and Amaravathy in Karur. The fifth district level conference of the AIYF that was held here on Tuesday passed a resolution pointing to the fast degradation of the rivers and observed …
Officials told to ensure cent per cent water supply to all beneficiaries Evaluating:The Minister for Slum Clearance, S. Thangavelan, reviewing schemes in Ramanathpuram on Wednesday. RAMANATHAPURAM: The Minister for Slum Clearance and Accommodation Control, S. Thangavelan, on Wednesday reviewed the functioning of Cauvery drinking water project in the district. Collector …
S Lalitha Bangalore, April 30, DHNS The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) has decided to ask the State government to bear the excess expenditure that has come up while executing works related to the Second phase of Cauvery Water Supply Project Stage IV. The decision was arrived at …
Shashidhar Gargeshwari, Chamarajnagar, April 19, DH News Service: The Tamil Nadu Government has hastened the work on the Rs 1,334-crore Hogenakal drinking water project amid controversy. The watch tower constructed by the Tamil Nadu government at the controversial Nadugadde region in Hogenakal. DH photo Defying the Central Government
A considerable portion of the wall lining the open canal that runs between the Shiva anaicut (Shivanasamudra in Mandya district) and the Netkal Balancing Reservoir (NBR) and carries Cauvery waters to Bangalore breached recently. As a consequence, water supply to the entire City will be shut down till Saturday. Many …
CHENNAI: The second Cauvery Combined Drinking Water Scheme will be implemented at a cost of Rs.47.74 crore and will benefit Kankeyam town panchayat (now elevated as municipality), Vellakoil Municipality and 174 rural habitations, Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin said on Monday. Responding to Congress member Vidiyal S. Sekar, Mr. Stalin …
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 …
S Lalitha, Bangalore, April 1, DH News Service: When the Second Phase of the Cauvery Stage IV project gets commissioned by 2011 end, the City will end up utilising every drop of the 19 TMC feet of water allocated to it by the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal. It means end …
With the Tamil Nadu opposition parties, the AIADMK and the PMK, accusing the ruling DMK of not implementing the Hogenakkal drinking water project, using the Cauvery water, the dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu is back in the limelight. Focusing attention on the water scarcity situation in the Pennagaram constituency, …
Gokul Chandrasekar | ENS State Planning Commission member argues it will be a cheaper and more effective way to check pollution load AMID growing concerns over the pollution of River Cauvery, member of the State Planning Commission and former Additional Chief Secretary to the Tamil Nadu government Sitharam Gurumurthi has …
Ramaswamy R. Iyer The Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal was established in 1990, under the Inter-State Water Disputes Act, at a specific direction of the Supreme Court. Ironically, and despite a constitutional and statutory bar on jurisdiction, the court has made it very difficult for the Tribunal to function in accordance …
