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 …
Authorities paying no heed to the problem, say residents For the past decade, the local civic body in Vikaspuri has given residents no choice but to dump their household trash on a busy road. Piles of garbage now obstruct pedestrians’ path. Residents say the garbage strewn on the pavements in …
It has come to light that many garbage disposal-related projects in the pipeline face numerous problems, ranging from land acquisition process, protests near the places where these projects are coming up and breakdown of negotiations. The State government has appointed Darpan Jain as the first Special Commissioner for Solid Waste …
Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) administration, citing feasibility issues, has been opposing the poposed light rail transport (LRT) project from Shivajinagar to Hinjewadi. Corporators in the civic standing committee on Tuesday went ahead and gave the nod to the project and sought finaces from the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) for …
Residents of South Delhi may soon get some relief from garbage piling up on their streets as the local civic body has decided to step in and do the work of the sanitation concessionaire. At a meeting of the South Delhi Municipal Corporation’s Standing Committee on Tuesday, officials admitted that …
INDORE: Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) will review its decision to cut 199 trees and transplant 22 for the construction of bridges, culverts and roads. While hearing a petition filed by social activist Kishor Kodwani, National Green Tribunal (NGT) in its interim order in March had directed not to cut any …
PUNE: NCP MP Supriya Sule's demand to restart riverside road construction work has riled city environmentalists, who have asked the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) not to succumb to the NCP leader's pressure and engage in illegal work. Sule had recently threatened to undertake an agitation if the PMC failed to …
PUNE: Improved reporting of tuberculosis (TB) cases by private doctors in the city is helping the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) understand the burden of disease, which will eventually help strengthen the state's healthcare system. As against 432 cases notified by private doctors in 2012, the reporting has gone up considerably …
AGRA: With an aim to curb the rising pollution in Yamuna, the Agra district administration has decided to strictly implement the ban on use of polythene in the city. For the same cause, the municipal authorities have been asked to place barricades at Yamuna ghats to resist locals for throwing …
The city municipal corporation is pinning its hopes on support from the Chennai Rivers Restoration Trust (CRRT) to provide funds for the restoration of the seven water bodies except Ukkadam Periyakulam here in the city. The CRRT is involved in the restoration of the Cooum and Adayar rivers in Chennai …
GURGAON: The city's shrinking green cover has posed a serious threat, and environmentalists and city authorities are geared to make it greener this monsoon season by planting more trees. The Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) has planned to plant nearly 50,000 saplings in the areas falling under its jurisdiction. A …
The City Municipal Corporation has charted out plans to ensure that 100 per cent rainwater harvesting systems are in place in all households and government buildings by August. On Thursday, to create awareness among the public on the need to install the system in their houses, a public vehicle fitted …
Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has appointed a Bus Rapid Transport System (BRTS) expert from Ahmedabad, Pratik Dave, as their technical advisor to fast rack its much hyped but delayed BRTS projects, started under the JNNURM scheme. Standing Committee Chairman, Mahesh Landge, announced at a press meet on …
Uncertainty over the fate of the 20 town planning (TP) schemes, which Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) had failed to come up with in the prescribed time limit has now ended. The civic body will hold a consultation over four of the remaining 20 TP schemes on Thursday. VMC had last …
BANGALORE: What interest has the Chief Minister shown in the past one year on the garbage crisis? He has blamed the previous government in the city for the problem, but what has he done to solve it? asked the High Court Special Bench constituted to hear a bunch of public …
Lashing out at the State government, Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), garbage contractors and elected representatives interfering in waste disposal process, the High Court on Wednesday asked what action the government has taken to solve the garbage problem in the City and said that the court will monitor the situation …
Those with motor power up to 650W will be allowed to ply on city roads Reversing the order of his own Ministry, Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari announced on Tuesday that battery-operated rickshaws will not be barred from plying on the city roads and will be considered as non-motorised vehicles. …
No garbage truck from Bangalore will enter Mandur after December 1. This decision was announced on Tuesday after a meeting at Vikasa Soudha chaired by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. Representatives of the village came out of the meeting holding a copy of the government’s schedule to taper the dumping. Bangalore District …
PUNE: City-based activists on Monday raised objections over cutting of 253 trees in the Swargate area and managed to stall the process undertaken by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), at least for now. "We have submitted a complaint to the police raising our objections. We have got an assurance from …
PUNE: An audit report for the nine km Swargate-Hadapsar bus rapid transit system (BRTS) stretch has recommended that the PMPML take responsibility for preventing the entry of non-BRTS vehicles in the dedicated corridor. The audit, which was done by a private agency appointed by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), has …
Under pressure to avoid a garbage pile up crisis, the state government on Monday agreed to give a written undertaking to Mandur residents that dumping of waste in the landfills near the village would end in the next five months. Speaking to reporters in the City after a review meeting …
