Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Deadly no longer, declares the Environment Pollution Control Authority for NCR, as the Capital begins moving on lead-free petrol from tomorrow. That means, Delhi's 30 lakh vehicles, including buses, cars, trucks, three and two wheelers, will no longer be held responsible for the alarming incidence of lead poisoning that has …
Zevco, a small Anglo-Belgian firm, has just launched the world's first taxi to be powered by smooth, silent fuel cells. Zevco's taxi is actually a hybrid vehicle. The cells that power it, generate their electricity by reacting hydrogen and oxygen together in the presence of a catalyst. When the cab …
The Prius, the world's first mass-produced hybrid vehicle, has been a sales success in Japan since its debut last December, leading its manufacturer, Toyota Motor Corp., to hope it can break through U.S. consumer's resistance to electric cars when it appears here in 2000. The Prius combines a gasoline engine …
The Delhi government plans to file a review petition before the Supreme Court asking for some more time to phase out all commercial vehicles older than 15 years. By doing so, it will be taking up cudgels on the behalf of transporters, who have also been planning to file a …
" delhi roads should display a statutory warning: Breathing here is injurious to health.' This is how Delhi's transport minister Rajinder Gupta described the city's air quality at the public meeting organised by the Centre for Science and Environment ( cse ) in New Delhi on November 1. The meeting …
• Great improvement. But the entire process of planning and notification by the ministry of surface transport (MOST) lacked transparency.• No study to show the new standards' impact on the air quality. • Permitted emission of hydrocarbons (HC) from two-wheelers (2.4 gm/km) is higher than that suggested by the H …
Direct measures are to be implemented by 1997, including exclusive left lane for heavy vehicles, dedicated bicycle tracks, banning of shoulder parking on roads, pedestrian zones and decongestion of traffic. Indirect measures to be implemented by 2000, including public and mass transport systems, construction of bypasses and elevated express carriageway, …
Fuel standards set up for the first time in India that are to be implemented in phases and made fully operational by 1999 • Diesel hydrosulpharisation projects in nine refineries worth Rs 5,568.31 crore for reduction of sulphur in diesel announced. But if we are investing so much, why only …
the number of people dying in urban India due to deteriorating air quality is rising every year and very little is being done to deal with pollution in Indian cities. A stupendous 51,779 people are estimated to have died prematurely in 36 Indian cities due to air pollution in 1995 …
The Taj Mahal is not the only thing monumental about Agra, so is the rising level of air pollution. Although data published by the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (uppcb) shows a decline in spm levels in the city between 1991 and 1994, it has steadily increased thereafter. Emissions from …
Calcutta has the dubious distinction of being placed sixth among the 41 most polluted cities of the world when it comes to spm levels, according to Global Pollution and Health , a report published in 1996 by who and the United Nations Environment Programme (unep). The figures speak for themselves. …
The number of premature deaths due to high levels of spm in Bhopal are estimated to have decreased from 663 in 1991-92 to 623 in 1995. Similarly, the incidence of illnesses have also gone down from 2,77,854 to 2,61,205 over the given period. But despite the data giving happy signs, …
Pune has enjoyed the reputation of being one of the cleanest cities in the country with regard to air quality. The number of premature deaths in Pune is estimated to have decreased from 991 in 1991-92 to 454 in 1995. Similarly, illnesses due to air pollution have decreased from 5,65,372 …
DTE tried hard to get updated data on the total sector-wise emissions in various Indian cities from the CPCB. Unfortunately, our efforts turned out to be futile as the CPCB pollution inventory is far from being updated. For Delhi, such data are available for 1993-94 but the situation is even …
• It is estimated that nearly 52,000 people died prematurely in 36 Indian cities due to high levels of SPM in 1995, a rise of 28 per cent from more than 40,000 in 1991-92 • The number of sicknesses requiring medical assistance and hospital admissions in these cities due to …
More people have died in Delhi between 1991 and 1995 by inhaling small suspended particles laden with toxic chemicals. The levels of spm spiralled dramatically from 367.9 micro gram per cubic metre (
As the number of vehicles produced around the world increase every year, so does the pollution from these vehicles. The number of automobiles on the roads around the world have increased around ten-fold in the past 50 years. Analysts predict that the number will double in the next 25 years. …
