Come up with scheme for biogas generation in Tamil Nadu: Plea at Madras High Court

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A biogas works  successful  Tamil Nadu. Representational image. File

A biogas works successful Tamil Nadu. Representational image. File | Photo Credit: G. Karthikeyan

A nationalist involvement litigation (PIL) petition has been filed successful the Madras High Court seeking a absorption to the Tamil Nadu authorities to travel up with a broad State-level strategy for decentralised biogas procreation done section bodies and different payment departments utilizing biodegradable bedewed waste.

The PIL has been listed for admittance earlier the archetypal Division Bench of Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice G. Arul Murugan connected Monday (June 15, 2026). S.P. Surendranath Karthik of Madipakkam successful Chennai had filed the PIL petition highlighting the benefits of generating biogas.

The petitioner said biogas could supply a clean, renewable and reliable root of powerfulness to conscionable the powerfulness demands and it could beryllium produced easy utilizing millions of tons of integrated discarded generated by idiosyncratic households, hotels, factories and different commercialized establishments.

Highlighting the harm bedewed discarded could origin to the situation and nationalist health, done imaginable contamination of aboveground arsenic good arsenic groundwater, if it was not handled properly, the petitioner said, the aforesaid integrated discarded could beryllium enactment to amended usage by utilising it to nutrient biogas.

The petitioner said helium had made a practice successful this respect to the State authorities connected May 22 and insisted an adept committee indispensable beryllium constituted arsenic a archetypal measurement towards formulation of a decentralised household biogas argumentation earlier coming up with a broad strategy to instrumentality the policy.

He besides sought a absorption to the State authorities and the Greater Chennai Corporation to behaviour aviator projects successful immoderate of the municipality section bodies including Chennai for technological utilisation of bedewed discarded done decentralised biogas procreation strategy and past grow it crossed the State successful a time-bound manner.

Published - June 14, 2026 05:52 p.m. IST

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