Groundwater level has increased by 0.6 metres
Rs. 20 crore has been allocated for supplying water across the State, says TWAD Board managing director The groundwater level has increased from 18.10 metres below ground level (pre-monsoon) to 17.5
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TNPCB hopes financial sops will enable industries comply with norms
The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board is currently on an overdrive to prevail upon polluting dyeing and bleaching units in the Western region of the State to conform to emission norms in the wake of the
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Sand mining regulations offer a ray of hope
Ministry of Environment and Forests guidelines stipulate that mining in quarries with lease area of 5-25 hectares should be done only manually. Sand mining from rivers in the State could be curtailed in
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Villagers appeal for closure of polluting aluminium factory
Thanneerpandhal residents’ earlier petitions remain unattended The public of Thanneerpandhal village in Gudiyatham taluk met the Vellore Collector R. Nanthagopal during the weekly public grievances redressal day camp at the Collectorate here on Monday and submitted to him a memorandum urging him to take immediate steps to close an aluminium factory in the village which has been causing air pollution and the resultant health hazards to the people in the nearby Adi Dravida colony.
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Packaged drinking water cannot be produced, sold without BIS mark’
Regulatory body makes assertion in affidavit to National Green Tribunal, Southern Bench The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), the highest regulatory body in the country, said no
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NGO seeks remedy for environmental pollution
Submitting a petition addressed to Baskaran, Member, SHRC on behalf of the neighbourhoods affected by the environmental pollution with the aim of seeking a solution to the problem and enable the NGO to continue its environmental mission, R.T. Rajan, Director of SOLAI said that he has given a hectare of his own land to SOLAI for the farm skills upgradation among poor women farmers. But the land is now submerged in drainage water to a depth of five feet. It has thus turned uncultivable.
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Villagers seek closure of private solid waste treatment plant
Stating that the untreated solid waste were dumped in open causing environmental hazardousness, a resolution was passed in the Grama Sabha meeting at Chettichavadi Panchayat here on Sunday seeking closure
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Industries assure support for development of solar energy
The Tamil Nadu Electricity Consumers’ Association (TECA) has said that its members favour development of solar energy in the State. However, the development should come through incentives from the Union
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Stumbling block to solar energy park near Ramanathapuram
TNERC has denied permission to TANGEDCO to sign power purchase agreement The country’s first solar energy park under the public-private partnership mode launched at Kavanoor near here with much fanfare last year, has hit the road block as the Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (TNERC) has denied permission to TANGEDCO to sign power purchase agreement (PPA).
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Organic farming gaining ground in India
“Adoption of organic farming is gradually increasing and it is practised in nearly 100 countries, with the area under organic practices continually growing in India,” R. Rabindran, Registrar of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, said here on Wednesday. Speaking at a training on ‘Organic Farming: Approaches and Applications”, he pointed out that possibly the greatest impact of organic agriculture was change in the mindset of the people.
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Nod for NH widening work triggers apprehensions about wildlife safety in tiger reserve
Proposal cleared for 191-km stretch of NH 209 in Karnataka. Wildlife activists in Tamil Nadu are not happy with the Central Government’s decision to permit the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI)