Judgment of the Supreme Court in the matter of Vellore District Environment Monitoring Committee Vs The District Collector, Vellore district & Others dated 30/01/2025. The matter related to pollution caused by untreated effluents discharged by tanneries and other industries in Tamil Nadu into the Palar river, posing a threat to …
Chief Minister allows mining in Kollidam river CHENNAI: Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi has ordered a ban on mechanised sand mining in the Palar and Tamiraparani rivers. Mr. Karunanidhi ordered the ban after a detailed review of works of the Public Works Department at the Secretariat on Thursday. He was informed …
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 …
V NarayanaMurthi | ENS Vellore, September 26 THE Palar may now be a dry river, but very much active with its political undercurrents expected to shake the region. The proposed dam site at Ganeshpuram near Kuppam was abuzz with activities on Wednesday that gave some indication of what was brewing …
V NarayanaMurthi|ENS Vellore Lakshmaiah contended that the AP government had already provided the design information of the Palar project to TN in 2007 and had underlined the need to get the concurrence from them THE Andhra Pradesh government was open for talks with Tamil Nadu, but was firm on the …
J. Venkatesan New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday suggested that the Central Water Commission explore the possibility of resolving the Palar water dispute between Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh through negotiations. A Bench of Justice Mukundakam Sharma and Justice Anil R. Dave was hearing a suit filed by Tamil …
VELLORE: Collector C. Rajendran has directed officials of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) to immediately visit the places in the Ambur area where there were complaints of tanneries discharging untreated effluents into the Palar, and identify and close such tanneries. He was presiding over a monthly agriculturists' grievance …
V Narayana Murthi | ENS They were accused of dumping untreated effluents in Palar river THE tanneries in Ambur and Vaniyambadi regions have been given a deadline up to this month end to complete the installation of the reverse osmosis system for treating effluents through individual and common treatment plants. …
The court had passed the earlier order on a petition which sought to restrain the PWD from using machinery CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has modified its earlier direction to the authorities not to use any machinery for sand quarrying in Palar river bed in some villages in Kancheepuram and …
MODIFYING its earlier order, a division bench of the Madras High Court on Friday permitted the contractors of the State PWD department to use machineries for quarrying sand from Palar river in Kancheepuram and Tiru- vannamalai districts with the ap- proval of the authorities con- cerned.
CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has directed the Vellore Collector to take action against those illegally mining sand from the Palar riverbed. A Division Bench headed by Justice Elipe Dharma Rao passed the order on a petition by K.L. Elavazhagan, Arcot MLA. The legislator sought to quash an order of …
V NarayanaMurthi | ENS THE National Board of Wildlife has deferred clearance to the Andhra Pradesh government's proposed dam on Palar river, as the matter is pending before the Supreme Court. The decision was taken at the Standing Committee meeting of the board held on December 22. The deferral is …
V NarayanaMurthi | THE technical report on `Palar Reservoir and its Salient Features' prepared by the Department of Irrigation and Command Area Development, Andhra Pradesh, over two years ago pointed out that the hydrological clearance has already been accorded for the formation of the dam for utilisation of 600 million …
PWD Minister Durai Murugan on Friday expressed shock over the reported assurance given by Union Minister of State for Environment Jairam Ramesh to Andhra Pradesh government that permission would be given for constructing a dam across the Palar river within 15 days As soon as Andhra Pradesh government announced that …
