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 …
S. Ganesan Work on protective structures along Cauvery, Coleroon begins Strong effort: Work under way on building permanent protective structures along the right bank of the Cauvery at Vengur. TIRUCHI: The construction of permanent protective structures along the Cauvery and Coleroon rivers has begun as part of the Rs.253.71-crore flood …
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 …
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 …
To augment the drinking water supplied to the newly added BBMP areas under the Second Phase of Cauvery Water Supply IV Stage, the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) has decided to construct nine storage-cum-balancing reservoirs at key locations in these areas. One reservoir will come up in the …
THE Madras High Court, on Thursday, issued a stay on bauxite mining by MALCO Ltd in Kolli Hills, acting on a petition filed by Piyush Sethia of the voluntary organisation
Bangaluru, N STATING that the Tamil Nadu Government had shown a positive response by setting up four hydro power projects along the Cauvery, Union Minister of State for Power and Commerce Jairam Ramesh, on Monday, appealed to the Karnataka Government to make its stand on the issue clear. The projects …
ERODE: Farmers affiliated to the Tamizhaga Vivasayeegal Sangam and Kalingarayan Pasana Sabai protested in front of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board office and later locked it. A group of farmers, who entered the complex housing the office, went to the office premises and pulled down the shutter. Officials who …
Rivers, known as mother rivers in many local to regional languages, dialects and cultural idioms, are known as bedrocks of civilisation. River valley populations in the hilly gorges are thus civilisations within our larger civilisation. Land, water, the forests, aquatic and mineral wealth of these river valleys are rarely valued. …
Sharath S. Srivatsa Craters on the banks of the Cauvery affect Deccan Mahseer's spawning area It is one of the largest freshwater game fish Construction boom in Bangalore blamed GALIBORE (Ramanagar dt): Past midnight, the chugging of tractors carrying men and shovels punctuates the tranquillity of the forest. In an …
J. Venkatesan Existing Cauvery basin irrigation area not protected: Tamil Nadu Karnataka questions Tribunal's methodology New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday posted for final hearing in November three special leave petitions filed by Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala challenging the final award passed by the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal …
DH News Service, Bangalore: The City will get drinking water on a daily basis from 2011, when work on the second phase of the Cauvery Water Supply Scheme Stage IV is complete, said Katta Subramanya Naidu, Minister for BWSSB, Excise, IT-BT and Information Department. Briefing the media after collecting first-hand …
Collectors ensure judicious use of water No shortage of fertilizers, says Thanjavur Collector ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHENNAI: The kuruvai crop is being raised smoothly in the Cauvery delta through judicious use of water, Collectors of the districts covered by the delta informed Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on Tuesday. When asked by the …
Salem AGITATED by the lack of transparency in the functioning of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB), 100 people, mostly farmers, on Tuesday sought clarifications under the Right to Information (RTI) Act from the District Environmental Engineer's office. "TNPCB has consistently treated citizens as trouble-makers and enemies, and has …
The newly elected BJP Government in Karnataka will face its first major crisis in resolving the sensitive Hogenakkal issue with the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Muthuvel Karunanidhi announcing the revival of the controversial drinking water project in the Cauvery basin. The two neighbouring states went on the offensive after the …
Many farmers have switched over to sericulture from the conventional crops of paddy or groundnut in the central districts in the past two years. This has come in handy for officials of the Sericulture Department, which has planned to increase the area under sericulture in the Cauvery delta districts. Encouraged …
