Salem, Tamil Nadu

Not a Scheduled AreaCensus 2011 district code 608

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27 Oct 2026 · FiledSubmittedEripudur Village Rough stone and Gravel Mining Project
16 Oct 2026 · Details soughtAdditional details soughtSampalli Village Rough Stone Mining Project
16 Oct 2026 · Details soughtAdditional details soughtROUGH STONE QUARRY OF THIRU. P. BALAKRISHNAN
16 Oct 2026 · FiledSubmittedMallikundam Village Rough Stone and Gravel Mining Project
10 Oct 2026 · FiledSubmittedNadupatti village Rough stone Mining project
9 Oct 2026 · DecidedEnvironmental clearance grantedRough Stone and Gravel Quarry Project Belongs to Thiru. G. Rajagounder
9 Oct 2026 · FiledSubmittedTmt. R. Jayakodi Rough Stone and Gravel Quarry Project Over an Extent 0.56.5ha of S.F.No. 380 at Veppilai…
6 Oct 2026 · Details soughtAdditional details soughtChinnagoundanur Limestone Mine Project Belongs to M/s. MAHALAKSHMI MINES AND PULVERISERS
6 Oct 2026 · Details soughtAdditional details soughtDevannagoundanur Village Limestone Quarry Project Belongs to Thiru. J. Mohankumar
30 Sept 2026 · FiledSubmittedGravel Quarry Project of Belur and Vettaikkaranur Village Belongs to Thiru. M.D.V. Arunkumar
29 Sept 2026 · DecidedEnvironmental clearance grantedVaigundam Village Quartz and Feldspar Quarry
29 Sept 2026 · DecidedTerms of Reference refusedErumapalayam Village, Rough Stone Mining Project

Dated by the portal's own appraisal history, converted to India Standard Time; a proposal with no recorded history appears on its register submission date.

Other clearances these proposals declare

Forest land diversion declared: 1
Forest land sought for diversion: Area not stated
Wildlife board recommendation declared: 1
In or near a protected area: 1
In an eco-sensitive zone: 0

These counts are taken from the application forms of the 187 of 187 proposals naming this district whose forms have been read for these questions. In 101 of those forms at least one question was left blank, and a blank answer is counted as unknown. The forest area is the area stated for forest clearance, with each forest proposal counted once, in the district where its project is primarily sited.

Proposals naming this district: 187
Category A proposals: 11
Families declared displaced: None declared
Families declared affected: None declared

Displacement figures are the proponents’ own declarations. A project sited across several districts declares one figure for the whole project, and that figure is counted once, in the district where the project is primarily sited.

Fifth Schedule status

Not within a Fifth Schedule Scheduled Area

No Presidential Order under paragraph 6 of the Fifth Schedule declares any Scheduled Area in Tamil Nadu, so no part of this district is one and PESA does not apply.

OrderMinistry of Tribal Affairs, Scheduled Areas declared under paragraph 6 of the Fifth Schedule to the Constitution

Who lives there

Figures from Census 2011, each compared with the all-India value computed on the same definition.

Total population: 34,82,056
Households: 9,15,967
Average household size: 3.80; 1.05 below India's 4.85India
Scheduled Tribe share of population: 3.4%; 5.1 points below IndiaIndia
Scheduled Caste share of population: 16.7%; level with IndiaIndia
Children aged 0-6: 9.9%; 3.7 points below IndiaIndia
Literacy rate: 72.9%; 0.1 points below IndiaIndia
Sex ratio: 955; 11.9 above India's 942.6India

What they live on

How the district's workers earn a living, from Census 2011. The land-dependent share counts cultivators and agricultural labourers as a share of all workers, and it is the group most directly affected when land is acquired.

Total workers: 16,94,160
Work participation rate: 48.7%; 8.9 points above IndiaIndia
Workers dependent on land: 42.0%; 12.6 points below IndiaIndia
Cultivators: 15.2%; 9.5 points below IndiaIndia
Agricultural labourers: 26.8%; 3.1 points below IndiaIndia
Marginal workers: 7.9%; 16.9 points below IndiaIndia
Household industry workers: 8.4%; 4.5 points above IndiaIndia

How households live

Land, income and work among rural households, from the Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011, which recorded these where the population census did not. Only the survey's rural part is used here, so urban households do not appear.

Rural households owning land: 33.1%; 13.0 points below IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.
Rural households whose highest earner makes over ₹5,000 a month: 21.5%; 2.8 points below IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.
Rural households living mainly on manual casual labour: 69.7%; 18.0 points above IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.
Rural households with a salaried member: 7.5%; 0.8 points below IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.

When these were filed

Each proposal is dated by the first step in its appraisal history, the dated record of steps the portal keeps for it.

2023-Q32026-Q4

The timeline counts 149 of the 187 proposals here. The first filing date comes from each proposal's appraisal history, and we have not yet read it for the other 38, so they are left out. Most of them are older proposals, so the early part of the timeline undercounts what was filed then. The register itself records a date for each of them; the gap is in our copy of the histories.

Hatched columns undercount, so they cannot be compared with solid ones. 2 of them cover periods for which we have read few filing dates so far, and they count only the proposals whose date we have. 2026-Q4 was still running when the register was read, so its column counts only the filings made up to that date.

What kind of projects these are

The proposals naming this district, grouped by the sector each was filed under.

Non-Coal Mining 87.7%
Industrial Projects - 1 4.8%
INFRA-2 4.3%
Industrial Projects - 3 1.6%
Other (2) 1.6%

The four largest sectors are shown by name and the rest are grouped as Other.

What is proposed here

These are the proposals in the national environmental clearance register whose application names a site in this district, newest first. A project with sites in several districts appears under each of them.

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