Report filed on behalf of Greater Chennai Corporation regarding pollution of Adyar estuary. Under the Chennai Rivers Restoration Trust (CRRT) project of eco restoration of Cooum river, construction of compound wall, boundary fence of the Cooum river have been taken up for a length of 23.92 km for preventing encroachments …
T. Ramakrishnan The earliest proposal to clean the rive was mooted in 1890 CHENNAI: The Cooum question never vanishes. C.N. Annadurai, former Chief Minister, once described the Cooum river as a black spot on the fair face of Chennai. Eleven months ago, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh too had made a …
If we remove all encroachments along the banks of Cooum river and arrest sewage inflow to the river basin, the restoration proj ect will be over by 50 per cent (Above) The site map and conceptual sketch of the proposed plan for the Cooum river restoration project In the first …
V Gangadharan THE State government on Thursday decided to establish Chennai River Authority under Deputy Chief Minister M K Stalin to clean up Cooum and other rivers in the city. The decision came after Stalin and government officials who visited Singapore recently to study its river restoration project explained the …
T. Ramakrishnan Eco-restoration works to be carried out in Cooum, other watercourses of the city S. Ramasundaram, Principal Secretary (Public Works), presenting a publication on Singapore to Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi at the Secretariat on Thursday. M.K.Stalin, Deputy Chief Minister, and K. Deenabandu, Principal Secretary to Deputy Chief Minister, are …
A clean Cooum with inland water transport facility would become a reality as efforts to expedite project implementation are on, Mayor M Subramanian said here on Wednesday. Addressing a meeting between NGOs, environmentalists, academicians and youth network representatives slated to participate in the Copenhagen Climate Meet at the British Deputy …
Sharadha Narayanan | ENS WHO will clean River Cooum? A Project seems floundering and an Authority has been proposed. The nomenclatures are unlikely to help tackle what is rated a huge environmental concern because there are no takers for the job. World Bank-aided project Irrigated Agriculture Modernisation and Water-bodies Restoration …
Deepa H Ramakrishnan and K. Lakshmi PREPARATORY WORK: Stormwater drains on Pantheon road being attended to . CHENNAI: The Chennai Corporation has identified a total of 1,500 overflow connections to its stormwater drain (SWD) network and 267 sewer outfalls from the network into the Cooum and Adyar rivers. The major …
K. Lakshmi The work will be completed by this month-end Coming up: Poles erected along the Cooum on Langs Garden Road, Pudupet, as a prelude to the fencing work.
K. Lakshmi Detailed project report sent to Centre The project will include works on straight cut canal from Maduravoyal lake to Cooum Alternative lands identified near Avadi for residents evicted from waterbodies CHENNAI: The proposal to rejuvenate waterbodies in and around the city is expected to be approved by the …
THE Madras High Court on Wednesday issued notices to the State Government on a public interest writ petition that sought to put the administration on the mat for releasing untreated sewage water directly or indirectly into the city's waterways. Petitioner V Ravichandran, founder-chairman of an NGO, Cit izens Guardians, alleged …
