Surat: banking on money
A cash rich municipality and a set of dedicated officials have made Surat s waste management system a successful but expensive exercise
A cash rich municipality and a set of dedicated officials have made Surat s waste management system a successful but expensive exercise
What the municipalities must learn about waste management from an NGO
Punjab will soon stop doling out free power to the agriculture sector and introduce a tariff mechanism to eliminate subsidies which will to wipe off the Rs 3,000 crore deficit the state has
The solution lies in making waste management a community exercise
Where the government has failed miserably in providing quality service to the people, some ngos have set an example on how urban waste can be managed. Vatavaran in Delhi and Exnora in Chennai are two organisations, which have set at rest doubts on the dif
Several non gonernmental organisations are showing the way to handle this problem
Our Ecological Footprint: think of your city as an ecosystem - a book that aims to bring an environmental focus to mainstream education to make it more relevant. It helps teachers to: relook at the relationship between subjects in the curriculum and environment education; adopt methods of knitting its concepts into the regular curriculum; and equip them to conduct their own Ecological Footprint Project.
Finally, the Delhi government clears a bill to ban plastic bags
IT IS only when a disaster of the magnitude that struck Orissa takes place, does a country realise the need to perfect its scientific infrastructure. Space technology, for one, helps in planning
The Delhi high court has ordered the city government to clarify its stand on shifting 2,600 unauthorised dairies from different parts of the city to a proposed dairy colony. The court also issued
The dangerously high level of benzene in Delhi s air speaks volumes
Procedural delays on the part of implementing agencies will ensure that the Supreme Court deadline for the conversion of old Delhi Transport Corporation buses to compressed natural gas will not be met
The Delhi government tries to involve resident s associations in managing civic amenities
On July 28, 1998, the Supreme Court ruled that all eight year old buses should be converted to CNG by March 2000 and the entire fleet of 10,000 by April 2001. This is all that has happened till November 1, 1999
delhiites once again faced a severe round of water shortage in the first week of November. The Delhi Jal Board (djb), however, had no clue about when the situation would improve. The
• The Himachal Pradesh government has introduced the long-awaited agriculture crop insurance scheme from the coming rabi season. • Joseph Rotblat from UK, social reformers Narayanbhair
The Supreme Court has expressed serious concern over the financial mess in the Delhi Vidyut Board (DVB) and asked the Delhi government to file an affidavit detailing steps taken for privatisation
Delhi s health authorities turn a blind eye to a rise in fluorosis cases
The Supreme Court has held that land falling within the green belt area cannot be put to auction by development authorities since serious public interests are involved in it. The court also
Winter, lack of rainfall and air pollution have made the smog in Delhi even more dangerous