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The Climate of Tamil Nadu, ... of the 11 air samples were between 1.4 and 3.7 times higher than prescribed by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change ...
The Environment department is responsible for pollution control across various ecosystems through the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board. [12] The department formulates policies to mitigate the impact of pollution in water bodies, control of air and noise pollution, climate change adaptation and coastal regulation.
The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, M K Stalin, inaugurated the campaign. During her tenure, Tamil Nadu successfully added four new sites to the prestigious Ramsar list of wetlands. [14] To bring about grassroots-level changes in combating climate change, Tamil Nadu is transforming 10 villages into climate-smart villages.
In March 2018, the state government announced that it would commence the eco-restoration of 695 hectares of the wetland under the National Adaptation Fund for Climate Change to be implemented over five years from 2018 to 2023 at a cost of ₹ 1656.8 million. [39] The reserve forest has been designated as a protected Ramsar site since 2022. [1]
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa announced an initial allocation of ₹ 5 billion (US$59 million) for relief and rehousing, with ₹ 400,000 (US$4,700) for each family who had lost relatives in the floods. 12 cyclone shelters were built in Nagapattinam district, while 11 teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) were dispatched ...
Rajya Sabha MP for Tamil Nadu (MoS, I/C) 12 July 2011 21 December 2013 2 years, 162 days: 16 Veerappa Moily (born 1940) MP for Chikballapur: 21 December 2013 26 May 2014 156 days: Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change 17 Prakash Javadekar (born 1951) Rajya Sabha MP for Madhya Pradesh (MoS, I/C) 26 May 2014 5 July 2016 2 years, 40 days
Tamil Nadu Vivasayigal Sangham ₹ 1 lakh (US$1,200) [239] Alappuzha district panchayat ₹ 2.5 crore (US$300,000) [240] Kuwait Aluva Pravasi Association ₹ 1.11 lakh (US$1,300) [241] Kerala Bank ₹ 50 lakh (US$60,000) [178] Sahara ₹ 2 crore (US$240,000) [242] Ayurveda Medical Association of India ₹ 10 lakh (US$12,000) [243] Dr Moopen's ...
The 2019 Chennai water crisis was a water crisis occurring in India, most notably in the coastal city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu. [1] On 19 June 2019, Chennai city officials declared that "Day Zero", or the day when almost no water is left, had been reached, as all the four main reservoirs supplying water to the city had run dry.