The district administration has decided to open a flood monitoring cell within the Collectorate in near future and the people could inform about the consequences of natural calamity during northeast monsoon.
Former students and professors joined the students of Pachaiyappa’s College on Tuesday to voice their unhappiness over the acquiring of land for the proposed construction of a Metro Rail station on the campus.
Demanding that the Metro Rail station proposed to be constructed there be relocated to another place, over 400 students staged a protest near the Memorial Hall.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved verdict on Sterlite Industries' interim application seeking a stay on the operation of the Madras High Court judgment ordering closure of its copper plant at Tuticorin and discharge of its workers on payment of compensation.
Work on implementing a major Solid Waste Management (SWM) scheme here will commence soon, said the Chairman, Udhagamandalam Municipal Council (UMC) R. Rajendran here on Monday.
The Kanyakumari District Farmer's Association here has urged the Government to desilt all water bodies in different parts of the district for the benefit of farming community in and around Villukuri areas.
The Tirunelveli Collector on Monday informed the Madras High Court Bench here that no proposal existed at present to grant lease for any kind of stone quarry within a radius of 5 kilometres from the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant, which was expected to become operational soon.
Water scarcity is a perennial problem for the residents of Periya Semur as the municipal administration continues to ignore the issues in its water distribution network. Unplugged leaks in the pipelines and rampant illegal tapping of water have left the people to face acute shortage in the supply.
In its attempt to improve the livelihood resources of the rural poor, the State government is trying to usher in the second green revolution, said the project officer, District Rural Development Agency, T.Murugan.
More than six lakh people are gasping for breath in Kodungaiyur as the city dumps its waste on a vacant piece of land that has been allegedly earmarked by the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority as a place for institutional purposes in its second master plan.
