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Land Consolidation Act draws flak from activists
The Act was passed on the last day of the recent assembly session (April 21). It’d allow projects on land parcels, which have water bodies, channels...
TNPCB consent must for buildings having over 20,000 sq.m to operate
This is to make sure that the big buildings have sewage treatment plants and that the untreated sewage is not discharged into waterbodies and...
T’malai to use retrieved areas of waterbodies for farm parks
Following the Madras High Court directive, a total of 3,562 acres were found to have been encroached on waterbodies by private parties, who cultivated...
Stalin urged to move court to protect people living on poramboke
Balakrishnan said that the courts are giving pressure to evict all those living on the waterbodies poramboke land across the state.
‘Neglecting action against encroachments cause water scarcity’
The first bench comprising Chief Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari and Justice N Mala made this observation on rejecting an appeal filed by Annamalai, a...
GCC fines 3 contractors for delaying storm water drain construction
An official release said that the Corporation maintains 2,071 km long 8,835 storm water drains and 48.80 km long 30 waterways.
HC’s strictures empowers Tamil Nadu to be tough on evictions
On hearing the submissions, the first bench turned against the contention of the State that “poverty cannot be grounds for encroaching Government land...
Shrinking waterbodies, floods become 2 sides of same coin
Unplanned urbanisation: 19 tanks go missing from N Chennai alone