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 …
Environment activists and bird lovers in the city want the civic body to close the historic Salim Ali Lake for public for the time being and declare it as a biodiversity hot spot. On Monday, the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay high court issued a contempt notice to municipal commissioner …
Thane: A recent census of the tree population in Thane has revealed that the green cover here has exceeded 4.55 lakh. The tree tally in the city has recorded an impressive growth by more than 1.23 lakh trees as compared to the numbers recorded in the previous survey conducted in …
The state government's resolution to extend the slum regularization cut-off date from January 1, 1995 to January 1, 2000 is unlikely to help curb proliferation of new slums in the city , say civic officials and urban planners. A government resolution (GR) extending the cutoff date as well as rules …
The Ministry of Urban Development in its recently prepared report claimed that there was lack of a comprehensive storm drainage system for Jammu city and the existing system faces severe flooding problem during the monsoon. The report further claimed that due to dumping of solid waste and inflow of household …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday asked the tree officer and the Horticulture department to calculate the number of trees felled by the South Municipal Corporation, while restraining any agency from felling more trees, in a local park in Greater Kailash-II. In an application filed to the NGT previously, …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Vijay Saini Vs. State of Rajasthan & Ors. dated 23/07/2014 regarding deconcretisation of trees in Jaipur.
The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay high court on Monday issued contempt notice to municipal commissioner Harshdeep Kamble for violating its order by opening the Salim Ali lake for public on July 2 without talking permission of the court or the civic body's biodiversity committee. Acting on a public interest …
In an attempt to give Gurgaon a sanitation model that looks after the civic needs of thousands residing in the city, the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) has proposed to construct underground toilets both for public and community use. This project will be taken forward on a Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) basis, …
PUNE: Groups of cyclists on Sunday threw their weight behind creating safe and usable cycle tracks in the city, and asked the Pune Municipal Corporation to improve the tracks it has laid in the past decade instead of converting them into business places for hawkers. The cyclists' groups are against …
BHOPAL: The state government has not submitted master plan for Mandideep town despite green panel's directing it to do so in last three hearings. A petitioner has approached National Green Tribunal (NGT) highlighting the absence of solid waste disposal and corrective measure in industrial town of Mandideep in Raisen district. …
280 Cases Recorded This Month, Virus Has Claimed Two Lives This Year Pune city has reported 16 dengue cases every day during July. On Thursday , 38 fresh cases of dengue surfaced -the highest recorded in a single day this year. So far 280 cases were reported this month, of …
COIMBATORE: The city municipal corporation has proposed the setting up of a one megawatt solar power plant at its old dumpyard in Kavundampalayam with an estimated capacity to generate 5,000 units of power, which could be fed into the power grid of TANGEDCO. The council meeting passed a resolution in …
In a bid to control vector borne diseases like malaria and dengue, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has prepared a databank on potential mosquito breeding places in the city. In this unique approach, KMC's health department has prepared a 9,048 page databank in which the civic body has identified permanent …
The four-year-old public bicycle scheme which is yet to hit the road will continue to remain on paper for some more time because the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) first wants to prepare a ?comprehensive bicycle plan' for the next 20 years. The proposal is not new. Exactly a year back …
Andheri (E) seems to be the hotbed of diseases, shows a study conducted by NGO Praja Foundation after analyzing health data from the civic corporation. If the high incidence of infectious diseases is a marker of quality of life, then Andheri (E) fares poorly with the suburb registering the highest …
The areas having a large population of migrants face the threat of outbreak of a disease as the Municipal Corporation and the Health Department have not shown any concern about sanitation there. During a visit to Dhandari Kalan, Jamalpur, Bihari Colony, Fauji Mohalla, Durga Colony and Prem Nagar, it was …
Tree activists in the city have started writing to the garden department of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to protest against the state forest minister Patangrao Kadam's application to cut three trees on BMCC Road. The matter came up at a meeting of the tree authority held last week, when …
Dhankawdi Reports Highest Number Followed By Ghole Road & Kothrud Residents of Dhankawdi, Ghole Road and Kothrud need to step up their mosquito surveillance as the area-wise distribution of dengue cases revealed that the highest number of cases is being reported from these areas. The Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) insect …
Death Certificates Show Higher Toll, Says NGO Report The city's ill-health graph is a bit skewed, claimed NGO Praja Foundation on Tuesday. It used data drawn from BMC's health department to show a huge disparity between the number of deaths the civic body attributes to diseases and the reasons given …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Dombivli Common Effluent Treatment Plant Vanshakti V/s MPCB dated 16/07/2014 regarding diversion of Khemani Nulla by Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation.
