Brickkiln is a household as well as modern industry emerges a great environmental concern in Thanjavur district. People who are living along the river side uses the bund clay to manufacture brickiln with the available resources, such as sand water and wood to heat up process in the chambers. River encroachments have been increasing with the brickline chambers and the bund size is reducing due to the extraction of lays without looking at the future environmental problems. News paper Reports indicate the few villages, such as the present study area, Vinnamangalam which is located at the Tiruvaiyaru Taluk designate increasing number of modern brickline industries apart from the household chambers. The modern industries require enormous quantity of brick clays and surface and subsurface water to manufacture bricks at large scale. This needs a detailed study about the misuse of land to set up modern brickline industries and their implications in the sample village of Vinnamangalam and the present study is a sample study to show how a village has been under sever environmental destruction due to the setting up of modern brickline industries and how the natural resources are being used by the brickkiln industries without giving access to common man.
