Order of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone, Chennai) in the matter of Sumathi Saet Vs Commissioner of Municipality Tiruvathipuram (Cheyyar) Municipality & Others dated 11/05/2017 regarding illegal dumping of municipal solid waste including hazardous waste in Survey No.1 of Murukathampoondi Village to an extent of 55 acres, Cheyyar Taluk, …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone, Chennai) in the matter of Sumathi Saet Vs Commissioner of Municipality Tiruvathipuram (Cheyyar) Municipality & Others dated 11/05/2017 regarding illegal dumping of municipal solid waste including hazardous waste in Survey No.1 of Murukathampoondi Village to an extent of 55 acres, Cheyyar Taluk, …
Rampant sand mining activity on Cheyyar river bed has rendered the twin water channels, created 120 years ago near Kavanthandalam, useless. The two channels — ‘pallakalvai’ (lower channel) and ‘mettukalvai’ (upper channel) — residents of this village said, used to bring the much-needed water for irrigation in and around Kavanthandalam …
PUCL team presents video and photographic evidence; mining operation could extend up to 200 hectares Illegal sand mining is happening in broad daylight in the river basins of Palar and Cheyyar, according to a fact-finding team of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL). The team presented to media on …
G Babu Jayakumar | ENS Public hearings are meant to elicit people's views on upcoming projects, though authorities are not obliged to act on them.They are meant to be free, frank and transparent. But transparency is something alien to officials in India It all started with a proposed power project …
CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has declined to restrain the authorities concerned from quarrying sand in Naiyadupakkam village in Kancheepuram district. Disposing of a writ petition, the First Bench, comprising Chief Justice H.L. Gokhale and Justice N. Paul Vasanthakumar, said the Collector ought to directly monitor the removal of sand. …
THE Tamil Nadu Cabinet on Thursday cleared the proposal of Mahindra & Mahindra to set up an automobile project at Cheyyar, near Chennai, with an investment of Rs 1,800 crore. The plant will have the capacity to manufacture 1.5 lakh vehicles per annum. The state government has already allotted 200 …
Yogesh Kabirdoss Cheyyar, Villagers threaten poll boycott as the State government plans to take over 2,300 acres of land in nine villages in the new Arani constituency despite their protests PEOPLE in nine villages near Cheyyar in the newly formed Arani Lok Sabha constituency have resolved to boycott the elections …
