PANJIM: With the Supreme Court now seized of all issues concerning illegal mining in Goa, the State’s leading green NGO, Goa Foundation, which had been fighting a legal battle against illegal mining since
The coast guard has launched " Operation Oliver" to intercept illegal trawlers as part of its annual mission to ensure safe mid-sea sojourn of breeding Olive Ridley sea turtles on Odisha coast near Kendrapara
Chennai Corporations plans to introduce specially-designed bags; move follows study by civic body The Chennai Corporation has planned to replace garbage bins with specially-designed bags to facilitate better collection of refuse in the city. The new system is intended to prevent ragpickers from spoiling the area around a garbage bin, according to sources in the Chennai Corporation. A study by the civic body has found that ragpickers contribute to scattering of garbage on the roads. Most of the garbage being taken out of bins by thousands of ragpickers on a daily basis is strewn all around to facilitate easy identification of recyclable items in the garbage. The ragpickers fail to put the garbage back in the bins, thereby spoiling entire stretches on roads, the study had found.
In a bid to arrest the rapid depletion of mangroves, the state forest department has mooted a proposal to acquire mangroves in private land along the Kerala coast, perhaps for the first time in the country.
Environmental organizations have alleged that state forest department has no blueprint for the conservation of the rich wildlife diversity in south Assam. Two environmental groups, People's Science
Civic body will be able to reduce power consumption to the extent of 57,53,071 kwh a year The Coimbatore Corporation will replace conventional bulbs with 22,000 LED lamps, Mayor S.M. Velusamy said here on Tuesday. He was speaking at the seminar on ‘Climate Resilient Action: Accelerating Urban Development and Finance in India’, organised by Cities Development Initiative for Asia and the Corporation in partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation, Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network and ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability.
Rs.1.95 crore allotted for installing 865 solar streetlights About one-third of streetlights in the panchayats in the district are likely to be converted into solar-powered ones over the next four years. Solar-powered streetlights were being installed in the panchayats under a special scheme announced by Chief Minister Jayalalithaa through the rural development department.
The State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) has decided to review the environment monitoring cost (EMC) being charged from hydro-power projects with a capacity of 10 MW or more to ensure that there is a proper
The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project plans to establish monitoring stations in a few villages around the project site for measuring radiation, if any, according to a senior official of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL). Unlike thermal power stations, which emit huge amount of particulate matter, fly ash and bottom ash, nuclear plants do not emit effluents in large quantity. Though the waste produced from reactors is minimal, it will be highly radioactive. However, safety measures incorporated in reactors will not allow the radiation to be transmitted from the reactor core, the official said.
Of the total number of green buildings that have come up in the whole of India, only 0.58 per cent of them have been built in northern India. Such is the state of affairs even though the Energy Conservation
Illegal mining of sand from riverbeds and banks to feed the construction boom has once again become rampant in Ernakulam district, posing a serious threat to the very survival of rivers. S. Sitaraman, environmentalist, said that after a brief period when honest police officers had kept a tight leash over the menace by taking stern action against the offenders, the problem had re-emerged in many pockets in the rural areas of the district.
Surveillance cameras will soon monitor the physical changes of the waters of River Periyar. The Kerala State Pollution Control Board is embarking on a video surveillance programme for the river system in association with Keltron for real time monitoring of the water body. Senior officials from the two agencies will inspect the river system next week to finalise locations for installing the cameras. The project is to install six cameras downstream Pathalam Bund, said K. Sajeevan, chairman of the board.
19 stations in 22.20-km from Technocity to Karamana A 22.20-km monorail, an elevated rail-based mass rapid transit system (MRTS), has been recommended in the Technocity – Pallippuram – Kazhakuttom – Uloor –Kesavadasapuram – Pattom – Palayam – Thampanoor –Killipalam - Karamana stretch of the capital. The Monorail, with 19 stations in the first phase, will have provisions to extend to the south up to Neyyattinkara in Phase II and towards north as the Technocity expands, as per the Detailed Project Report (DPR) prepared by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) and presented to Chief Minister Oommen Chandy here on Tuesday.
NGO cites study to claim discrimination in allotment of housing reservation After BMC served demolition notices to 400 houses along Malvani-Marve Road in Malad Monday, urban planners and activists reiterated a long-pending demand Tuesday to include slums in the development plan (DP) of the city. The demand was made at a day-long convention to discuss inclusion of the urban poor in the DP being prepared by the civic administration.
Shillong: Glaring anomalies in the functioning of department of health and family welfare has deprived thousands of people of West Garo Hills with basic health care benefits ,revealed the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG). Holding the department of health and family welfare responsible for the deprivation of basic health care in West Garo Hills, the CAG directly stated that patient care suffered due to shortage of Community Health Centres (CHCs) Public Health Centres (CHCS) and Sub centres (SCs) and inadequate infrastructure like non-functional operation theatres, lack of ultra sound,ECG and 24x 7 diagnostic services, besides the absence of medical specialist.
The Bombay high court on Tuesday suggested framing of norms on noise levels concerning construction or renovation work. The HC was hearing a PIL against lack of proper implementation of noise pollution norms in the state. The court had noted that marble, granite cutting and polishing required for construction or renovation of residences, create the most noise pollution. The court asked the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) if there were any specific norms framed for the same.
Apex court calls upon Delhi, Roorkee directors as other efforts bear little fruit The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the directors of Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) Delhi and Roorkee to find out measures to check pollution of the Yamuna. The river was becoming dirtier with each passing day despite several governments and civic bodies having spent Rs.12,000 crore so far, the Court noted.
To keep a check on depleting underground water table in the state as well as in the city, the Ludhiana Municipal Corporation is mulling over supplying canal-based water to city residents. If the plan
The Supreme Court today asked the directors of IITs, Delhi and Roorkee to prepare a new project for cleaning the Yamuna, observing that the current project has failed despite spending Rs 12,000 crore over
The state pollution control board has refused to give operating consent to all 107 mining leases in the state under the Air and Water Pollution Control Act. The Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB),
