The project in the KanyakumariMadurai belt, which has a large operational wind power capacity. Kolkata based engineering firm Techno Electric and Engineering Company has just commissioned a 15 MW wind power project in Tamil Nadu. The project has been set up under a wholly owned subsidiary, Simran Wind Projects, and will have a total capacity of 125 MW.
Union Minister M K Alagiri on Sunday laid the foundation stone for a Rs 780-crore drinking water scheme in Madurai and said the welfare schemes launched by his father and CM M Karunanidhi will help DMK to retain power in the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, due in May.
Thousands of hectares of land that had been lying idle for years in Tamil Nadu have been made cultivable through major interventions under watershed development project of National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD).
Being implemented in Tamil Nadu since 2001, around 160 watershed development projects are under way in various districts.
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) plans to promote its watershed projects as a livelihood option for landless farmers/labourers and women in southern districts of Tamil Nadu.
It will organise a two-day residential workshop on January 20 and 21 at Theni in which non-governmental organisations partnering with NABARD in 45 projects covering 50 villages in eight southern
Excessive extraction of sand from the basin of river Tamirabarani is affecting ground water table According to the directive of the Bench, each zonal panel will comprise a retired district judge, an environmentalist and a geologist
THE Madurai Bench has named the chairman and members of the zonal monitoring committees for sand quarrying on Wednesday.
MADURAI: A three-member commission appointed by the Madras High Court Bench here has concluded that excess sand quarrying on five sites along the stretch of Tamirabarani, the only perennial river of the State flowing through Tuticorin and Tirunelveli districts, has created an ecological imbalance.
