Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu

Not a Scheduled AreaCensus 2011 district code 628

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26 Oct 2026 · FiledSubmittedExpansion in Cement Production Capacity from 1.825 Million TPA to 5.5 Million TPA of Integrated Cement…
24 Oct 2026 · FiledSubmittedExpansion in Cement Production Capacity from 1.825 Million TPA to 5.5 Million TPA of Integrated Cement…
16 Oct 2026 · FiledSubmittedRough Stone and Gravel Quarry of Thiru.C.Varatharajan
13 Oct 2026 · Details soughtAdditional details soughtProposed manufacturing of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) by M/s. Aminosaure Private Limited at…
9 Oct 2026 · DecidedEnvironmental clearance grantedProposed Rough Stone & Gravel Quarry of Thiru.V.Vinothkumar
9 Oct 2026 · DecidedEnvironmental clearance grantedThiru.N.H.M.Pandian Rough Stone and Gravel Quarry
9 Oct 2026 · DecidedTerms of Reference grantedRough stone and gravel quarry of Tvl. Indriya Granites, Thiru.M.D.Kuriakose (Managing Partner)
9 Oct 2026 · DecidedTerms of Reference grantedRough Stone and Gravel Gravel Quarry of Thiru.J.Rabik
5 Oct 2026 · Details soughtEssential details soughtProposed expansion of existing “Anuvijay Township” of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project by M/s. Nuclear…
4 Oct 2026 · FiledSubmittedOrdinary Earth quarry of Thiru.K. Shanmugananth
29 Sept 2026 · FiledSubmittedProposed manufacturing of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) by M/s. Aminosaure Private Limited at…
26 Sept 2026 · Details soughtAdditional details soughtProposed Rough Stone, Jelly and Gravel Quarry of Thiru.K.Selvaraj

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: 2
In or near a protected area: 0
In an eco-sensitive zone: 12

These counts are taken from the application forms of the 229 of 229 proposals naming this district whose forms have been read for these questions. In 116 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. 1 proposals declare activity in a coastal regulation zone.

Proposals naming this district: 229
Category A proposals: 9
Families declared displaced: None declared
Families declared affected: 20

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: 30,77,233
Households: 8,15,528
Average household size: 3.77; 1.08 below India's 4.85India
Scheduled Tribe share of population: 0.3%; 8.2 points below IndiaIndia
Scheduled Caste share of population: 18.5%; 1.9 points above IndiaIndia
Children aged 0-6: 10.5%; 3.1 points below IndiaIndia
Literacy rate: 82.5%; 9.5 points above IndiaIndia
Sex ratio: 1,023; 80.7 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: 14,36,454
Work participation rate: 46.7%; 6.9 points above IndiaIndia
Workers dependent on land: 34.5%; 20.1 points below IndiaIndia
Cultivators: 8.1%; 16.6 points below IndiaIndia
Agricultural labourers: 26.4%; 3.5 points below IndiaIndia
Marginal workers: 11.5%; 13.2 points below IndiaIndia
Household industry workers: 16.7%; 12.9 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: 19.8%; 26.3 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: 20.0%; 4.4 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: 72.5%; 20.7 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: 9.4%; 1.1 points above 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 169 of the 229 proposals here. The first filing date comes from each proposal's appraisal history, and we have not yet read it for the other 60, 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. 3 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 83.8%
INFRA-2 10.9%
Industrial Projects - 3 2.6%
River Valley and Hydroelectric Projects 0.9%
Other (4) 1.7%

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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