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 …
Order of the National Green Tribunal, Central Zonal Bench Bhopal M.A. No.05/2013 Greater Gwalior Plastic Traders Association Vs Union of India & Ors on prevention of plastic carry bags in Bhopal.
ALLAHABAD: The area of Sangam would now be rid of all litter as Allahabad Municipal Corporation has decided to clean up the banks of Ganga and Yamuna routinely. For this, Allahabad Municipal Corporation has also prepared a gang of about 36 sanitary workers who will perform the duty of cleaning …
Pune: The Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) effort to bring all clinics under the ambit of its common bio medical waste (BMW) disposal system has received a poor response from doctors with only 30 clinics responding to the drive launched on May 1. Over 6,000 clinics and 107 nursing homes/hospitals in …
The East Delhi Municipal Corporation has launched ‘Suposhan’ , a programme to detect and correct iron deficiency, ‘anaemia’, among children studying in schools under its jurisdiction. The programme was launched at M.C. Primary School, Subhash Park, which is run by the Corporation. “Malnutrition is multi-factorial in origin and requires strategies …
Efforts of the state government to clean Budha Nullah seem to be turning futile as effluents are still being discharged into the water body. Besides, garbage is also being dumped into the nullah by residents and sanitation workers. Toilets have also been constructed on the banks of the nullah. Though …
For years more than 400 slum clusters of Ahmedabad have been plagued by problems of water contamination and diseases every summer. Periodic cases of jaundice and cholera have been often traced to mixing of sewage with drinking water. But now the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) health department is toying with …
The Bombay high court blasted the BMC on Thursday while hearing petitions against illegal waste dumping and wetland reclamation in Kanjurmarg. “Please understand. You are not behaving as the municipal corporation for the maintenance of Mumbai, but as the municipal corporation for the destruction of Mumbai. You are incorrigible,” said …
Mumbai: Alleged malpractice in the shortlisting of a contract to be awarded for the city tree census has come to the fore with the Tree Authority members claiming that garden department officials have bent rules so that the tender could be awarded to their chosen agency. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation …
Agency responsible for regularisation of farmhouses, civic amenities. Twenty-six villages identified as 'low density residential areas' under the farmhouse policy have been declared development areas by the Delhi Development Authority. A resolution in this regard was passed at a DDA meeting on Wednesday. This also means that the DDA will …
Will process 2,500 tonnes of garbage from MMR daily, convert it to electricity. By the end of 2015, MMRDA expects to commission a regional solid waste management plant at Taloja with a capacity to process 2,500 tonnes of solid waste produced in the Mumbai metropolitan region (MMR) daily, and convert …
902 trees will be removed for a single project, Sion-Panvel Expressway. BMC approved Wednesday felling/shifting of 1,098 trees to facilitate 28 infrastructure projects, including Sion-Panvel Expressway. Of the 1,098 trees, 902 will be removed by Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) to expand Sion-Panvel Expressway. MSRDC will transplant 535 trees …
The city is all set to wear a greener look with the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation indentifying at least six medians on major roads for a massive plantation drive. The city forest department, which is the nodal agency for plantation, will aid BMC in the drive, which will be carried out …
Ghaziabad: An incredible 82 of the 123 ponds mentioned in Ghaziabad Development Authority’s Master Plan 2021 have vanished, according to activists. While officials claim that the number presents too dire a scenario, there is no doubt that rampant encroachment by land mafia that thrives on the ever-increasing demand for cheap …
The long-awaited three-level underground parking facility at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) became operational today here nine months after it was constructed. The multi-level parking facility, whose foundation stone was laid down in October 2011 and constructed with the stipulated project cost of Rs 53.57 crore in …
To call attention to the deteriorating condition of Bangalore’s lakes, a group of seven photographers have released a short documentary film called Bangalore Lake Diaries, which they hope will generate public momentum to save these water bodies before it is too late. The right kind of picture may well speak …
The state government has decided to rope in Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT) University, Ahmedabad, to prepare a fresh detailed project report (DPR) of Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) project in the capital aimed at improving the public transport system. The CEPT will be the second agency to …
Plan for sewage treatment plant takes shape, but mafia may pose hurdles Government officials who were apathetic towards the historic Sarakki lake for long seem to have woken up to the need to save the water body. On Friday, they visited the lake for a reality check on its status. …
The municipal corporation (MC) has mooted a Rs 290 crore project under the centrally-funded Jawahar Lal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission (JNURM) to augment water supply network in the city, which will not only provide water supply to outer areas on the periphery, but will also benefit residents in the old …
190 Govt Offices With Illegal Sewage Connections Release Waste Into The River Surat: River Tapi stinks because of release of untreated sewage water into it by many government and other offices. Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) had found Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), income tax department, government circuit house and police …
Rs.7.7 lakh to be spent for setting up plant The Cumbum Municipality plans to tap solar energy on a large scale to trim its power bill. Initially, solar power would be provided to the municipal office, municipal maternity hospital and the municipal abattoir, said Chairman T.Shiva Kumar. Presiding over a …
