PRESS RELEASE 18 January, 2014 PUNE — More than 64,000 MW, nearly 30 percent of India’s installed electricity generation capacity of 225000, is lost in inefficiency and leakages, according to Nityanand Jayaraman, a member of the Chennai Solidarity Group for Koodankulam Struggle. Jayaraman is in Pune as part of the Vasundhara film festival that […]
Cuddalore, 10 January 2014: Around 400 residents for more than 20 villages around proposed SIMA Textile Park today protested near the office of the District Collector opposing the proposal to set up a textile park near their villages. Residents of Periyapattu, Periyandikuzhi, Chinnandikuzhi, Gopalapuram, Vandiyampallam, Sandrormedu, Andarmullipalayam, Silambimangalam, Kayalpattu, Thazhanchavadi, Poochimedu, Puthiraveli, Villiyanallur, Samiyarpettai, Kumarapettai, […]
Cuddalore, 10 January 2014: Around 400 residents for more than 20 villages around proposed SIMA Textile Park today protested near the office of the District Collector opposing the proposal to set up a textile park near their villages. Residents of Periyapattu, Periyandikuzhi, Chinnandikuzhi, Gopalapuram, Vandiyampallam, Sandrormedu, Andarmullipalayam, Silambimangalam, Kayalpattu, Thazhanchavadi, Poochimedu, Puthiraveli, Villiyanallur, Samiyarpettai, […]
PRESS RELEASE 27 December, 2013 Chennai: City activists have called for a halt on all constructions inside IIT Madras pending an independent investigation into allegations of illegal construction and tree felling by the institute between 2001 and 2013. Releasing a report by the Chennai Solidarity Group titled “City in the Forest: The birth and growth […]
PRESS RELEASE 3 January, 2014 Cheyyur taluk: Revenue officials threatened land-owners in Vilambur, Cheyyur taluk, with police action for blocking unidentified Hindi-speaking surveyors from entering their farms and orchards with survey equipment. The surveyors have no documents from the Government stating the purpose of the survey or conveying authority for such activities. A team comprising […]
PRESS RELEASE 14 December, 2013 CHENNAI: It is possible for Tamil Nadu to overcome the current electricity crisis in the near term without relying on controversial large centralised projects, said experts who addressed students at a seminar organised by Loyola Enviro Club, the Indian Institute of Public Policy and the Chennai Solidarity Group. The seminar […]
Dec. 7, 2013 A.V.RAGUNATHAN The Hindu Cuddalore: Environmentalists, local community and consumer activists have faulted the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests for having lifted the moratorium on opening new industrial units and expansion of the existing units in the SIPCOT Industrial Estate here. They argue that when the pollution indicator in the industrial estate […]