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 …
AHMEDABAD: After installing solar panels atop some of the main zonal offices of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) and the Sardar Patel Stadium in Navrangpura, the AMC is now turning to wind energy. With the AMC incurring electricity bills worth close to Rs 150 crore per annum, huge savings can …
Pune: The Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) waste-to-green energy project from processing garbage in Hadapsar has run into trouble. Mumbai-based Rochem Separations Systems (India) Pvt Ltd, which was operating the plant on a build-operate-transfer basis to process 700-tonne dry waste and generate 10 MW electricity every day, has failed to run …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Capt. Mall Singh & Others Vs Punjab PCB & Others dated 29/08/2013 regarding establishment of a proper Municipal Solid Wastes disposal plant taking care of MSW right from its collection to its final disposal.
Going by the poor condition of roads in the City, one would feel the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) spent very little money on maintaining them. But here’s the catch, the Palike claims it spent as much as Rs 17,802 crore on roads in the last ten years! And, the …
AHMEDABAD: After installing solar panels atop some of the main zonal offices of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) and the Sardar Patel Stadium in Navrangpura, the AMC is now turning to wind energy. With the AMC incurring electricity bills worth close to Rs 150 crore per annum, huge savings can …
Everyday nearly one tonne of bio-medical waste are getting mixed with municipal waste posing serious health hazards. City generates around 3 tonnes of bio-medical waste per day out of which only 2 tonnes of it is getting disposed properly, while one tonne mainly generated from dispensaries and clinics are mixing …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Mr. Pradeep More & Others Vs State of Maharashtra & Others dated 27/08/2013 on conducting survey of all the industrial units as well as existing sugar factories which are within 10 K.M. radius from Pandharpur found discharging effluents in the …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Neel Choudhary Vs State of M.P. & Others dated 23/08/2013 regarding the absence of solid waste management arrangements by Marriage Halls, Barat Grahs etc.
The ambitious project to revive water bodies in the Millennium City is hanging fire. The state government had sanctioned Rs 5 crore to the Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) for the purpose about two years ago. Sources said the civic body had mooted to restore at least 11 water bodies with …
Tree cover in the district has grown by 13% in the last decade. The number of trees in the district-58.52 lakh in 2003-has increased to 66.41 lakh according to the tree count taken up earlier this year. The district however, like Ahmedabad city, has a relatively low density of 8.3 …
With civic bodies doing nothing, volunteers' group gets serious on saving lakes A group of volunteers under the banner ‘Save Bangalore Lakes’ has taken upon itself the task of reviving the City’s lakes, a task that should ideally have been undertaken by the local bodies. The organisation came into existence …
Pune, home to an H1N1 outbreak in 2009, is battling a fresh one with 232 found positive since January. The virus has killed 35 in the Pune municipal region this year, including some from rural areas on the outskirts treated in the city, but excluding 13 who died in Pimpri-Chinchwad. …
The state government on Monday submitted the status report to the Gujarat high court on the action taken by authorities to prevent diseases during monsoon. The government has said that no death due to dengue and malaria has been reported this monsoon in public hospitals in the city. The state …
Says Total Lethargy In Solving Garbage Problem The high court on Monday pulled up both the government and BBMP for their casual approach towards implementing its directions in solving the garbage mess. The court gave them time till August 30 to show compliance. “We are dissatisfied. Not in one case …
Healthcare Providers Submit List After Govt Rule Made It Mandatory In 2012 The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has recorded 727 fresh cases of tuberculosis (TB), as reported by private hospitals in the city ever since it was made a notifiable disease by the Union government last May. This is in …
As many as 21 people have tested positive for swine flu in Pune city till date this month. Among them, four have succumbed to the infection. The city has reported 24 confirmed swine flu cases last month. Six of them have died of the infection in July. "There has been …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Capt. Mall Singh & Others Vs. Punjab PCB & Others dated 19/08/2013 regarding dumping of municipal solid waste in Bhatinda.
The city’s first suspected Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus (MERS-Cov) case has highlighted how its sole isolation facility needs some serious beefing up. The 20-bed ward at Kasturba Hospital has just one ventilator, the beds separatedby makeshift partitions. Both may prove fatal, especially since patients are isolated for a respiratory viral …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Sarang Yadwadkar & Others Vs Mrs. Anjali Dinkar Datar & Others dated 16/08/2013 regarding dumping of debris and other materials and construction on the river bank and causing pollution and changing the course of the river Mutha. Tribunal directs removal …
About 60 pc of positive cases reported from private hospitals The number of dengue cases in the City has increased threefold with over 500 fresh cases reported in July and August till date. As per the BBMP's Health department's records, 744 cases were positive for dengue in the City since …
