Works to the tune of Rs. 13 crore are under various stages of completion, says Agriculture Minister
The World Bank-assisted Hydrology Project-II aimed at improving groundwater situation in the Union Territory will be completed during 2011-12, Agriculture Minister M. Chandrakasu informed the Assembly on Friday.
Collector K. Nagarajan ordered closure of five companies manufacturing packaged water in different parts of the district on the charges of pumping ground water massively without obtaining prior permission.
The camp will ensure quick reaction in man-animal conflict
Tamil Nadu Government has sanctioned Rs. 1.5 crore to set up a kumki elephant (tamed/trained) camp at Chadivayal at the foothills of Siruvani.
The Forest Department has nearly 60 kumki elephants at its elephant camps in Mudumalai and at Anamalai Tiger Reserve. The Coimbatore camp will be the third kumki camp in the State and the first kumki camp outside a sanctuary area. TheDepartment has identified a few male elephants and Principal Chief Conservator of Forests and Chief Wildlife Warden Gautam Dey will inspect the site and the elephants and pass final orders allotting two elephants to the camp.
Polluted stretches of the coastal belt between Pulicat and Kanyakumari, including major tourist destinations along the Tamil Nadu and Puducherry coast will be cleaned on September 3 as part of the International Coastal Clean-up Day.
The State government will implement a Rs.450-crore special tourism development project for the beautification of tourist centres and improvement of basic facilities along the east coast corridor and southern tourist circuit, Tourism Minister Gokula Indira told the Assembly on Tuesday.
With a view to increasing the forest/tree cover as per the national forest policy, 64 lakh saplings will be planted across the State, Forest Minister K.T. Pachamal told the Assembly on Tuesday.
Tamil Nadu is losing nearly 1,000-1,500 MW of wind power on a daily basis as the power is not being evacuated by the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation, which could sell this unutil
The Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change, a panel of international experts assessing the current scientific knowledge on climate, has asserted that warming of the earth's climate system is ‘unequivocal', Fr. Ignacimuthu, Director, Entomology Research Institute, Loyola College, Chennai, said here recently.
Under the Comprehensive Road Infrastructure Development Programme
The State government will undertake widening and improvement of roads at a cost of Rs 1,900 crore under the Comprehensive Road Infrastructure Development Programme (CRIDP) in the current year, Highways Minister Edapadi K. Palaniswami told the Assembly on Monday.
