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CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has conveyed categorically to the union government that the State government will never allow any mining works including tungsten mining in Arittapatti and its surrounding places in Madurai district. CM Stalin urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to cancel the award of tungsten mining rights in Madurai and instruct the Ministry of Mines to …

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TN will reject tungsten mining in Madurai, says forest minister

Tamil Nadu has neither received any application from Hindustan Zinc Limited, a subsidiary of Vedanta, nor has the state granted permission for the company to mine tungsten in about 5,000 acres of land in Madurai district, the government said on Thursday. HZL was given permission from the Union ministry of mines on November 7 for mining activities in Melur taluk …

CM Stalin urged to revoke firm’s permit to mine tungsten from 10 Madurai villages

MADURAI: Citing damage to the Arittapatti biodiversity heritage site, the Tamil Nadu Environmental Protection Movement Coordinator RS Mukilan urged Chief Minister MK Stalin to cancel the sanction to a private company to mine tungsten in 10 villages of Melur taluk. The members petitioned Collector MS Sangeetha to make efforts to revoke the permission given by the union government to the …

Chennai: The historic Anaikondan lake, built during the regime of the Pandiya empire in the 16th century, and 193.215 hectares land around it in Arittapatti and Meenakshipuram villages of Madurai district were notified as a biodiversity heritage site under the Biological Diversity Act of 2002. The ‘Arittapatti Biodiversity Heritage Site’ is the first of its kind in the State and …