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 …
The National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, has again sent alarm bells ringing in Shimla and Solan. Eight water samples taken from Ashwani Khud water treatment plants in both cities and the Malyana sewage treatment plant have tested positive for Hepatitis-E. The NIV found that two water samples taken from …
D Thara, AMC Commissioner, underlined need for ‘recycling’ the sewage and waste water and to make Ahmedabad an eco-friendly city. Water expert and advisor to the chief minister, B N Navalawala, Thursday said that there was need to ensure integrated waste water management and water audit should be made mandatory. …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Kalindi Residents Welfare Association (KRWA) Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 12/02/2016 regarding mosquito breeding in Delhi. The joint inspection report dated 14th January, 2016 submitted before the Tribunal has requested NGT to direct the "SDMC to do ani-mosquito …
National Green Tribunal has asked government agencies why they have not submitted their views on phasing out over a decade old diesel vehicles in their departments, despite its specific directions two months ago. The green panel had on December 11 last year directed the central and state governments to take …
The set-up of the climate change cell has been supported by the UK under a two-year UK-Kolkata Municipal Corporation Programme of 1 million pound technical assistance on low carbon and climate-resilient Kolkata. India’s first ever integrated climate cell at Kolkata Municipal Corporation is in the process of activating a mobile …
Pune: The western region bench of the National Green Tribunal has expressed its displeasure over the Pune Municipal Corporation's (PMC) failure to map silence zones for the city despite specific directives in a ruling last October. In an order passed on February 5, the tribunal directed the municipal commissioner to …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) will submit the experts' report on Rankala Lake pollution on March 3. Last month, the two experts from the Gujarat-based Maharaja Sayajirao University visited the lake, along with officials from the Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) and Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) to take stock of …
Bareilly: Following the previous order of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), which had asked Bareilly Municipal Corporation (BMC) and Bareilly Development Authority (BDA) to earmark the site for disposal of municipal solid waste in consultation with officials of Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB), the municipal authorities on Wednesday submitted …
Says civic body itself should implement the project through a tender process. Raising objections over appointing a private agency allegedly recommended by the BJP-led central government to implement the project to generate solar power by installing solar panels on the roof of civic buildings, corporators in the Pune Municipal Corporation …
The Government of Assam has taken up several projects for rolling out a well-laid-out network of drinking water supply to the city dwellers, a press release issued today claimed. At present, the water supply facilities in Guwahati Metropolitan area are being operated by three departments – Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC), …
Kolhapur: The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) on Monday issued a public notice appealing to all clinic operators in the city to register with the biomedical waste treatment facility before March 31. The MPCB action came after the Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) slapped a fine of Rs 15,000 on a …
Last week, the BMC’s counsel sought three months to complete the task in the remaining 16 wards. The NGT granted them two months to expeditiously carry out the mapping. After the state government received a rap from the National Green Tribunal on the issue of mapping Mumbai’s silence zones, the …
KOLHAPUR: The civic body has issued notices to three clinics in the past last two days and imposed a penalty of Rs 15,000 on one of them for allegedly dumping biomedical waste in the garbage collection container. The Biomedical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2015 have made it mandatory for …
HARIDWAR: The ban imposed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on the use of plastic along the Ganga from Gaumukh to Haridwar with effect from February 1 has apparently not had much effect in the holy city. Plastic containers are being sold at the Har-ki-Pauri and other Ganga ghats as …
The city has been enveloped in a heavy layer of smog caused by a fire last week at the Deonar dumping ground. It released hazardous gases into the air, raising the pollution levels to a dangerous point and is causing breathing difficulties. The Municipal Corporation (BMC) shut down 74 schools …
Pune: Wagholi, a growing residential area on the fringes of the city, is battling an urban problem-- garbage accumulation, no system to dispose it of and people setting the collected mounds on fire. The open burning is sending thick, black smoke into the air and choking the elderly and children. …
According to data from the union environment ministry and Solapur district administration, there was a massive revenue increase of Rs.50 crores in the 2013-14 financial year due to e-auctioning, spike in fines and fool proof monitoring. Three years after the apex court ordered Centre to formulate fresh guidelines on mining …
Ongole: The government has agreed to release Rs 40 crore to the Ongole Municipal Corporation to improve drinking water supply to the city. The minister for municipal administration, Dr P. Narayana, who visited Ongole on Sunday, assured the people that the government would release the money soon for the project …
As the Municipal Corporations’ sanitation workers continued with their strike on Sunday, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal came out in support of the protesting safai karamcharis. Mr. Kejriwal, who is in Bengaluru for his treatment, tweeted: “I support (the) demand of protesting MCD (Municipal Corporation of Delhi) employees that they …
