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 …
Residential or commercial premises seeking permission to chop more than 100 trees in their vicinity will get a personal visit from the municipal commissioner, as per a proposal mooted in the civic body’s Tree Authority Committee meeting Wednesday. Members requested Municipal Commissioner Sitaram Kunte to premises where there is a …
The High Court of Karnataka on Tuesday directed the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike to constitute committees in each ward of the City to monitor garbage disposal, before January 21. The direction was issued in a public interest litigation filed by G R Mohan, a city-based advocate and others alleging failure …
In a move that could be perceived as reneging on its election manifesto, two BJP-ruled civic agencies may increase parking charges in the city. In the manifesto, the party had promised that it would not impose additional taxes on residents, but the corporations may increase parking charges in their budget. …
New Delhi: Taking note of the TOI report on excessive pruning of trees in Vasant Kunj, the forest department carried out a survey of the area on Sunday. In its preliminary investigation is has found that several trees have been cut more than what the forest had issued permission for. …
The Mandur landfill site is set to shut down on February 1 depriving Bangaloreans of a major rubbish dumping yard. But a majority of the citizens are yet to grasp the concept of segregation of waste at source and implement it, thus potentially paving the way for another garbage crisis …
The High Court on Friday directed the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to furnish statistics of garbage cess collection over the last ten years. This followed a submission by the Palike that it was spending 70 per cent more money than it collected as cess. Counsel for the Palike submitted …
Parking rates in areas under the jurisdiction of South Delhi Municipal Corporation will double with the civic body today clearing a budget proposal for this. The civic body adopted the proposal for increase in parking rates suggested by SDMC Commissioner Manish Gupta with some modifications. According to the decision, Rs …
standing committee chairman rajesh gehlot said the hike was to encourage more people to use public transport Reneging on the promise made in its election manifesto — that it would not it would not impose additional burden on the city residents by hiking taxes — the BJP has cleared the …
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike will finally do away with the three per cent garbage cess on property tax collected from bulk generators in the City. “There is no point in imposing garbage cess when we have asked the bulk generators to dispose their waste. We will withdraw the cess,” …
Waste-free Maradu’, an ambitious programme to free the municipal area of waste heaped on the roadside and curb unsustainable waste disposal practices has ended up drawing a lot of flak from residents. However, the municipal authority has defended its programmes, launched about a year ago. The municipal authority’s pipe compost, …
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) can now push its river restoration as well as construction and development of heritage sites along the Mula-Mutha river projects to completion at the earliest. The reason is that the Central government has released Rs56.63 crore to the PMC for executing infrastructure projects under the …
Many villages gradually get included in cities and urban people also migrate to villages transforming them into towns. Both phenomena require intensive study, including an examination of the defi ning criteria of a "town", and the estimates of urban population.
This comes after the civic body terminatedthe agreement with a private firm. Inadequate conservancy workers, escalating wage bill and insufficient machines have prompted the Salem City Municipal Corporation to hire a private contractor to carry out the garbage disposal for a total length of 282 km. in 21 wards. This …
135 Dams In Region Have Just Nine Per Cent Of Water Left Rajkot: Tempers are running high in the pilgrim town of Virpur. Without drinking water for the last 25 days, residents have called for a bandh on Thursday to vent their anger. The bandh call comes barely 10 days …
The City found itself in a garbage conundrum, even as Palike bigwigs were busy battling BMTF The year 2012 will be remembered most for the ugly transformation of the Garden City into the Garbage City, thanks to vested interests, indifferent citizens and the administrative breakdown in the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara …
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has imposed a penalty of Rs 10 lakh on Mallige Hospital on Crescent Road for dumping bio-medical waste in an open area near Hebbal Lake. It has issued a showcause notice to the hospital, asking it why its trade licence should not be cancelled. …
A month after the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) decided to replace the controversial Dattak Vasti Yojana — aimed at keeping slum areas clean — with the Swacha Mumbai Prabodhan Abhiyaan, a framework for the new scheme was discussed at the BMC standing committee meeting on Wednesday. The new scheme, which …
Even as there is growing concern among Mumbaikars over electromagnetic (EM) radiation from cellphone towers, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has gone slow in giving clearance for new towers. An estimated 1,000 applications for new towers are pending with the BMC, while around 1,800 towers have been declared illegal. The …
Jaipur:Not only the opposition but the administration too has picked holes in city’s sanitation work. Taking a strong exception to the muck and dirt scattered during the chief minister’s programme at the Scouts & Guides headquarters located at Ram Niwas Bagh here on Monday, the district collector shoots a letter …
Irate residents to meet CM over ‘illegal dumping’ Roiled by garbage trucks being allowed inside the Mandur landfill site despite protests, members of the Mandur grama panchayat on Tuesday said they would meet Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar shortly to discuss the matter. Lamenting the pathetic state of their village, the …
