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CHENNAI, India - Almost a decade ago, when the first of Chennai's bleach-white IT office buildings replaced coconut groves along the Bay of Bengal south of the city center, leaders hailed the potential for a new wave of clean jobs. Nine years later, it is clear that planners did not fully anticipate the consequences.
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Declining work productivity, increasing morbidity (from dehydration, heat stroke, and heat exhaustion) and mortality from exposure to heat waves ; Reduced access to water for rural and urban poor people due to water scarcity and increasing competition for water; Effects of climate change in India
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A large tropical depression that had formed in the Bay of Bengal hit the eastern coast of India around Chennai on 10-11 November 2015, causing heavy rains that continued intermittently until early ...
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"Depressed to see workers committing suicide for five months without a job or families starving. The government should wake up at least now and provide compensation to the construction workers, who...
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Currently, around 70 crushing and m-sand units operate in Tirusulam. More than 90 per cent of these units operates on either temple land or beam notice land without proper permissions and...
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So far there have been four fatal events involving illegal sand extraction that has led to death of 5 people and causing grievous injuries to 2 persons. These incidents are also being reported from across the country. The latest incident happened in Odisha where, a journalist on May 29 was violently attacked while returning of home.
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But some varieties of sand and silt aren't good for construction, don't mix well with concrete and lead to cracked walls and unsafe houses. Young men are among the owners, drivers and workers here in these smaller townships and villages; the major projects are handled by larger, wealthier players whose connections are vast.
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Oct 10, 2020Hundreds of constructions were virtually stopped in two districts with the scarcity of sand. Sources say, it is currently available only in black-market only. A lorry load of sand value is between...
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A large tropical depression that had formed in the Bay of Bengal hit the eastern coast of India around Chennai on 10-11 November 2015, causing heavy rains that continued intermittently until early ...
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Chennai counts with a desalination plant in Minjur, and Nemmeli was the second. Further plants are to be built. Coastal common areas used by native small scale fisherfolk for their livelihoods was occupied by the state owned Chennai Metro Water Supply and Sewerage Board for the construction of the 100 MLD (100 million litres day) Nemmeli Desalination Plant.
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Chennai is located on the south-eastern coast of India in the north-eastern part of Tamil Nadu on a flat coastal plain known as the Eastern Coastal Plains.Its average elevation is around 6.7 metres (22 ft), and its highest point is 60 m (200 ft). Chennai is 2,184 kilometres (1,357 mi) south of Delhi, 1,337 kilometres (831 mi) southeast of Mumbai, and 1,707 kilometres (1,061 mi) southwest ...
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Aug 21, 2021TNN / Oct 26, 2019, 11:24 (IST) TDP workers staged a demonstration at the Gandhi statue near the GVMC office on Friday protesting the scarcity of sand in the state. Addressing the gathering, TDP leaders said that lakhs of workers in the construction sector have lost their livelihoods due to the sand policy of the government.
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Oct 23, 2021Escalating cost of M-sand and shortage of material in the market has affected construction activity in the city and its fringes. The cost of M-sand has jumped by ₹500 a tonne in the last few days...
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HYDERABAD: Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president N Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday went on a 12-hour hunger strike, or "deeksha", to protest against the severe shortage of sand in Andhra Pradesh, of which he was once the chief minister.This comes within weeks of being put under house arrest for launching protest rallies. The Opposition TDP has been alleging that scarcity of sand has hit ...
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Chennai lies on the southeastern coastal plain of India, a low-lying landscape of rivers, sand dunes, backwater lakes, wetlands and salt pans. It was founded in 1639 by way of a 10
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23 jun 2011 the scarcity of sand and the resultant escalation in its price have put the feet a year ago now costs rs 50 per cft or rs 10000 per lorry load 200cft as that sand deposits in tamil nadu rivers would meet the construction more detailed. Details The Use Of Manufactured Sand In Real Estate
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The massive expansion is proposed within 10 km area of ESZ. As per norms, construction of any harbour or port is prohibited within ESZ." However, a senior official said the ESZ was proposed as there were many patta lands within the sanctuary allocated to local people. "There is a lot of illegality involved in showing water bodies as patta land.
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According to research, sand mining in Tamil Nadu is a Rs. 24,000 crore a year industry [6]. However, Tamil Nadu's budget estimates for 2014-15 peg incomes from sand quarries at Rs 216.82 crore which was in 2013-14 even lower at Rs. 133.37 crore. No one has a definite answer of where the rest of the money goes.
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TORRENTIAL rain battered Tamil Nadu in the last week of October, after four consecutive years of drought. Over 60 persons lost their lives and about two lakh people had to be accommodated in...
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ISSN: 2277-9655 [Radhakrishnan * et al., 6(12): December, 2017] Impact Factor: 4.116 IC™ Value: 3.00 CODEN: IJESS7 IJESRT INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES & RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY IMPORTANT ASPECTS FOR MULTI STOREY BUILDING CONSTRUCTION S Radhakrishnan*1 & Dr K G Selvan2 *1 PhD Research Scholar, PRIST University, Thanjavur 613403 2 Associate Dean, PRIST School of Business, PRIST ...
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Nov 22, 2020The region has also seen 4 deaths including 3 minor kids following collapsing of sand dune and caving in of sand mine. The other 5 deaths have taken place in Andhra Pradesh where the ban on sand mining affected the construction activities severely forcing 5 workers to commit suicide. Death toll in South India due to Illegal Sand Mining in 2019-20
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7 March 2018 12:30 AM GMT. Well water availability has been falling across India, and in Kerala, it fell by 10 percentage points to 62% in the decade ending 2011. In 2008, the district administration of Thrissur initiated Mazhapolima, a scheme to recharge wells through rooftop rainwater harvesting. Over a decade, the scheme has benefitted more ...
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The penthouse on the 38th floor at Abov could be Chennai's most exciting one as yet. "The duplex apartment at 11,000 Square feet will have South India's largest floor plate for a penthouse of 6,800 Square feet, offering the architect plenty of scope to play with form," says Chitty Babu, Chairman and Managing Director of Akshaya Properties.
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The government should wake up at least now and provide compensation to the construction workers, who were rendered jobless due to scarcity of sand," Opposition Leader N Chandrababu Naidu wrote on ...
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AA NASHIK: With no bidders for the 51 sand blocks that were to be auctioned by the district collectorate on Tuesday, scarcity of sand is likely to further hit the construction industry in Nashik. Sand blocks are auctioned from August 1 to July 31 every year. This year, the government extended the deadline to September-end.
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Hatchery owner E Balasundaram lost the bulk of his business when the Sand Beach in Sulerikadu went under due to the plant. His business, Seven Staar Hatchery, was flooded by the sudden advancement of sea water. "I did not expect this at all. Around the time the plant was constructed, the villagers were protesting.
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Diogo Lopes de Sequeira, Viceroy of Portuguese India, established the first European settlement in Chennai with the construction of the port of São Tomé de Meliapor in 1522. Surrender of the City of Madras in 1746 to de La Bourdonnais, by Jacques François Joseph Swebach,
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While sand prices skyrocketed due to scarcity of the material, retail prices of steel and cement are going through the roof. A bag of Portland Pozzolana Cement (50kg) is sold at `340 to `360 ...
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Swaminathan Aiyar's thoughts are relevant here: "One alternative is to crush boulders into gravel and sand, but the same environmental problems have hit stone quarrying. This sector is equally characterised by detailed rules and court curbs, a scarcity of gravel and sand, huge illegal mining, and a mafia-politician nexus." ADVERTISEMENT
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