FOR ENVIRONMENT: S. Chandrasekaran, General Manager of the Indian Overseas Bank, Coimbatore, speaking at a workshop on

COIMBATORE: A fervent call for segregation of waste at the point of generation, a warning that licences of shops will be revoked if they littered their environs and emphasis on awareness on these marked a recent review by District Collector V. Palanikumar of the status of solid waste management across the district.

CHENNAI: The Madras High Court on Wednesday ordered notice on a writ petition by a panchayat ward member in Coimbatore district, seeking a direction to authorities for collecting taxes and other revenues from 10 companies that had set up a windmill project in his village.

Coimbatore,

VILLAGERS near Madukkarai on the city outskirts are under the grip of fear after two leopards gained entry into a farm house here.
The villagers had been complaining of a leopard that had been ransacking the plantations situated on the foothills of Madukkarai Dharmaraja Koil area for the past one week.

M.J. PRABU

Safe & secure: The farmer, Subbaian in his lush organic farm in Tamil Nadu.

The importance of good soil and clean water for raising any crop can hardly be overemphasised.

A soil with low fertility and a contaminated water source can make life very difficult for farmers.

COIMBATORE: The Southern India Mills Association

Chennai

THE biggest impediment in reviving the ooranies in the state seems to be encroachments, which have rendered the water bodies dry.
At least 70 per cent of the 431 village ponds in Madurai district are rain fed and the rest are fed with water discharged from the Periyar for irrigation. Most of them have become useless, with indiscriminate encroachments.

COIMBATORE: The National Productivity Council (NPC) has come out with a low cost solution to control air pollution in cupola foundries.

A demonstration of the technology and presentation of its details was arranged here recently by the engineering industrial associations.

M Rafi Ahmed|ENS
Coimbatore

JOBS galore for villagers, but very few takers for the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS).
And the District Rural Development Agency (DRDA) here has left no stone unturned to popularise the scheme across the rural belt.

Sources said lack of interest among the villagers was the reason for the scheme facing hiccup. However, a DRDA official said people were now keen on taking up jobs after a series of meetings conducted by panchayat presidents who are the implementing agency for NREGS.