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 …
Ramban presents a dirty and stinking picture to every passerby as there are heaps of garbage beside the highway, link roads and lanes and in nullahs passing through the town. “The stink, dust and sight of garbage distracts any person from standing any longer in the picturesque hill town. The …
On behalf of Green Kumbh, the district collector and municipal commissioner had organised a meeting to plan cleaning of the rivers in the city on occasion of World Environment Day on June 5. Citizens and social organisations will be joining hands for the Clean Godavari Campaign which is the main …
AHMEDABAD: Eighteen cases of high-grade fever were reported from various hospitals in the city even as the mercury dipped to 42.6 degrees celsius on Wednesday. This was a drop of 1.3 degrees from Tuesday, when Ahmedabad was the hottest place in Gujarat at 43.9 degrees. On Wednesday, the city was …
Vrindavan: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has restrained Vrindavan municipal body and the other civic departments from burning garbage and domestic waste in the holy town. Giving interim orders before vacation on a petition filed by river activist Madhumangal Shukla, the green tribunal has directed the authorities and the Mathura-Vrindavan …
The Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) will table a compliance report to the National Green Tribunal's (NGT) western zone on Thursday. The report will detail the progress of measures undertaken to address solid waste management concerns. While hearing the Top quarry case last month, the NGT approved the civic body's demand …
NASHIK: Peeved about the rampant burning of waste along the roads and the civic body's repeated claims of warning its sanitary employees against such a practice, environmental activists have now started lobbying for hefty penalty on the offenders. They want slapping of Rs 5,000 as fine on the offender on …
The Municipal Corporation (MC) is all set to tighten its noose around the commercial establishments that have so far failed to comply with the solid waste management system in the city. While there are more than 2,000 commercial buildings in the city, only 435 have so far tied up with …
The garbage collection points will be constructed in localities around these so that the drains and eventually the Yamuna are spared further pollution. In an attempt to alleviate the growing pollution of Yamuna, the East Delhi Municipal Corporation plans to construct garbage collection points in areas near the drains leading …
KOLHAPUR: A fresh fighting may start in the coming days over the ownership of the city's most popular water body — Rankala lake. In its affidavit submitted to the National Green Tribunal (NGT), the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has stated that since the civic body has successively failed in …
PUNE: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has constituted a committee to carry out a survey of Ramnadi and asked the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority (PMRDA) to ensure that no construction is permitted on either side of the river bank without the committee's approval, till …
National Green Tribunal (NGT) has asked Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) to submit draft measures and plan prepared for scientific closure of the existing dump site at Bhanpur on July 16. This was after Subhash C Pandey, applicant, pointed out that care must be taken while carrying out closure work to …
Out of its six housing projects for rehabilitating the urban poor of the city under the Centre's JNNURM scheme, the Dehradun Municipal Corporation could start construction only in two, while three were cancelled as land could not be acquired. The fate of the last hangs in the balance. What's more, …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter NAB Lions Home for Aging Blind Vs Kumar Resorts & Ors. dated 26/05/2015 regarding construction activities by Respondent Nos. 1 and 2 (Kumar Resorts & Kumar Ailani) at village Khandala-(Lonavala), Tal. Maval, district Pune. At the hill-top, …
The decision was taken in the pre-monsoon meetings addressed by Municipal Commissioner Ajoy Mehta. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) recently started a process to map areas, and it has shown a steady rise in incidents of vector-borne diseases such as dengue and malaria in the past three years. The mapping …
Buildings coming up illegally in areas which were hit by floods Residents of Srinagar city are alleging rampant construction of shopping malls and other commercial buildings in the flood-hit localities. They alleged that violations of the Srinagar Master Plan were taking place under the nose of the authorities but nothing …
Sources said that the committee will request the NGT to ask the Uttar Pradesh government to address the issue. An inspection carried out by an expert committee constituted on the orders of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has found that the main issue of pollution with respect to the Hindon …
The Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) plans to decompose organic waste to generate biogas at the unused dome of the old sewage treatment plant (STP) in Kasba Bawda. Following the National Green Tribunal's (NGT) directive of decentralizing solid waste processing, the KMC will set up the biogas facility in association with …
LUCKNOW: With payment issues between LMC and its contractor finally resolved, the latter has committed to begin operation of solid waste treatment plant in Shivri by June 20. The project, which started in 2007 under the Centre's JNNURM scheme, has been moving at snail's pace due to several procedural bottlenecks, …
Order of the Bombay High Court in the matter of High Court On Its Own Motion vs State Of Maharashtra And Ors dated 20/05/2015 regarding the poor condition of roads, the existence of potholes on the roads, the poor surfacing of the roads, the failure to level the roads properly …
Administration has gone soft on marriage gardens owing to marriage season. None of 23 marriage gardens that were served notices by civic body has been shut down as directed by National Green Tribunal (NGT). This is not only case of non-compliance of NGT orders. Of the 38 errant marriage gardens …
