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Making City Beautiful plastic-free a far cry
Expensive alternative draws city residents to cheap plastic bags; vendors say not viable With merely one company in the country manufacturing biodegradable polythene bags and selling A-4 size for Rs
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Sukhna biodiversity Forest Dept priority
Plans afoot to introduce indigenous species of trees in catchment area to prevent growth of weeds . The receding water level of Sukhna Lake has become a matter of concern for the Department of Forests
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Rs 200 likely to be highest fee for garbage collection, says MC
The municipal corporation (MC) has proposed garbage collection rates from Rs 50 to Rs 200 per month for houses and Rs 50 to Rs 2,000 per month for commercial areas for collection of segregated garbage
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Chandigarh to get greener with 40,000 trees and shrubs
CHANDIGARH: The city is all set to become greener. The municipal corporation (MC) will plant 40,000 trees and shrubs in the financial year of 2017-2018, submitting details under the Green Chandigarh Action
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Biggest solar power plant yet to see light of the day
CHANDIGARH: The ambitious project of the Chandigarh administration to install 25 megawatt (MW) solar power plant -- biggest of the city -- at Patiala Ki Rao, a seasonal rivulet, is yet to see light of
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Green threat: Delhi HC scraps realty project by Sukhna lake
The Delhi high court scrapped on Wednesday a proposed Rs 1,275 crore residential project in Chandigarh on the grounds that it fell within the sensitive catchment area of the Sukhna lake. The project is
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After NGT order, PPCB fines 1,800 farmers over stubble burning
Patiala: Having come in the line of fire of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) for failing to enforce an effective plan to cut down stubble burning, which was widely blamed for choking the National Capital
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Chandigarh to exempt big buildings from environment clearance
Building with built-up area of 5,000 square metre and above are required to take environment clearance from the Union ministry of environment. CHANDIGARH: Housing projects and big buildings will not
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Pedestrian deaths ring alarm bells
Account for 32% of the total deaths in road accidents in city in 5 years Accidents claim precious lives on city roads. However, what is more alarming is that a large number of those falling prey to
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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding plastic segregation from the municipal solid waste, Chandigarh, 05/12/2016
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of R.D. Anand Vs. Chandigarh Union Territory Administration & Others dated 05/12/2016 regarding plastic segregation from the municipal solid waste,