The Madurai bench of the Madras high court on Wednesday banned use of earth movers and other machinery for mining of sand in 18 quarries in Cauvery and Coleroon rivers in Karur, Trichy and Thanjavur areas. The order may have far-reaching economic implications as price of sand could go up …
The Madurai bench of the Madras high court on Wednesday banned use of earth movers and other machinery for mining of sand in 18 quarries in Cauvery and Coleroon rivers in Karur, Trichy and Thanjavur areas. The order may have far-reaching economic implications as price of sand could go up …
Bullock cart operators and labourers, owing allegiance to the Tiruchi District Sand Bullock Cart Labourers’ Association, staged a demonstration in the city on Tuesday urging the Public Works Department to grant them permission to transport sand from the Cauvery and the Coleroon rivers in the Tiruchi region. The protesters said …
Of late, the weekly grievances day meeting at the Collectorate here has been witnessing villagers turning up — not for individual grievances or complaints but for an environmental and social cause. Villagers have been drawing the attention of the district administration to the massive quarrying of sand and pleading for …
After a brief lull, quarrying of river sand commenced in five places on Monday, taking the total number of re-opened sand quarries to 12. On Wednesday last, seven quarries resumed operations. Of the 12 functioning quarries, five are on the Coleroon river (two each in Thanjavur and Nagapattinam districts and …
Environmental clearances granted last year to Public Works Department for sand quarrying in 21 places on the river beds of Coleroon and Cauvery are now under the scrutiny of the National Green Tribunal, Southern Bench here. Farmers associations such as Kollidam Aaru Pathukappu Nala Sangam and Somaswarapuram Vivsayikal Nala Pathukappu …
The Madras High Court has permitted 10 sand quarries on the Cauvery-Coleroon river beds to continue its operations for a further period of two months. By an order dated August 3, a Division Bench headed by Justice R.Banumathi had ordered the closure of five-year old quarries in the Cauvery-Coleroon riverbeds. …
More than 5-year-old quarries banned in some districts It may take a few months for authorities to open new sand quarries on the Cauvery-Coleroon river basin in the wake of the recent order of the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court. One of the decisions taken at a meeting …
Civic body remains mute spectator to wanton pollution at tollgate junction The tollgate junction near the Coleroon river, the gateway to the city from the northern side, is fast turning into an eyesore owing to indiscriminate dumping of garbage by commercial establishments on the roadsides. With the banks of the …
The Tiruchi Corporation would adopt trenchless technology to lay pumping mains of the on-going Drinking Water Supply Augmentation Scheme in critical junctions and crossings at 11 places in the city. The drinking water scheme is being executed at an estimated cost of Rs.221.42 crore with financial assistance from the Japan …
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 …
