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Gurgaon promotes cleanliness with run

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Corporation distributes bins for garbage collection in city

As part of integrated solid waste management programme

Photo: M. Periasamy

PROMOTING CLEANLINESS: Mayor R. Venkatachalam (third right) hands over garbage bins to residents at Saibaba Colony in the city on Friday. Corporation Commissioner Anshul Mishra (right) is in the picture. —

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Okhla bio-medical waste plant may finally shift

Bindu Shajan Perappadan

DDA to allocate land for the project later this month

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MMC’s garbage scheme fails to take off

HERALD REPORTER
MARGAO, JAN 1
Margao Civic body’s much-hyped door-to-door garbage scheme failed to take off on New Year Day in the six municipal wards.
Civic officials tried to play down the failure by saying the Civic body is working out structuring of the staff to be deployed for the work.

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Durgapur, the best in India

Durgapur has been chosen as the best city in the country in managing solid waste. The Durgapur Municipal Corporation received the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) Excellence award in the “improvement in solid waste management” category recently.

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Roads to be built with demolition waste

Construction and demolition waste will now be used for the construction of roads and pavements in the Capital.

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has developed a construction and demolition waste processing plant at Burari in north Delhi, by way of which the processed waste would be used for road works.

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A lesson in what corruption of nature’s gift spells to residents

TAMBARAM: Pallikaranai is synonymous with two things — remnants of the once sprawling marshland, nature’s gift to Chennai, and a huge garbage dumping yard right inside the wetland that is seen as man’s response to nature. An ecological hotspot now turned into a disaster, the Pallikaranai town panchayat is the immediate town next to Chennai’s border in the south east direction.

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Community role vital for solid waste management

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TIRUCHI: Mobilising community support was essential for the success of solid and liquid waste management programmes, observed speakers at a dissemination workshop on decentralised solid and liquid waste management here on Thursday.

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GF to walk out of Sonsodo if govt fails to fund landfill site

Goa Foundation has once again threatened to walk out of Sonsodo dumping yard, with the much-promised government funds of Rs 4.6 crore to set up a landfill site at the dumping site yet to come in.

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3 beaches to be cleaned @ Rs 30,500 a day

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation will dig deep into its pockets to ensure clean and pristine beaches in the western suburban regions of the city. It has decided to spend Rs30,500 per day on the clean-up of three major beaches of Versova, Madh-Marve and Gorai-Manori, all of which are inland tourist attractions.

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