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 …
New Delhi: Taking a serious note of the recent Volkswagen emissions scandal, experts on Monday said India is also vulnerable to such fraud due to its weak emission regulations. In a workshop titled, "Urban air quality challenges and strategies to reduce emissions from in-use and new vehicles" organized by the …
Buses, trucks and autorickshaws the key culprits with their thick, black smoke At a time when the Transport Department is observing environment pollution reduction month, hundreds of vehicles, particularly, commercial vehicles, continue to emit thick black smoke, contributing their bit to the city’s environment pollution. The manner in which these …
LUCKNOW: It will be easier checking unfit vehicles plying on city roads as the first advanced centre of the state comes up in Lucknow very soon. "Construction is on in full swing," said sources in the transport department. Though the centre has to be ready by March next year, the …
Mumbai: While the city's air quality deteriorates during Diwali, pollution is a cause for worry throughout the year due to constant increase in vehicles, construction projects and poor sanitation. The BMC's Environment Status Report (ESR) 2014-15 states that nitrogen dioxide and ammonia levels in the air not just exceed limits …
Some cities in Assam and the northeast have reported a drastic drop in air quality over the past few years. This was revealed in World Health Organization's 'Ambient (outdoor) Air Pollution (AAP) in Cities Database' released in April this year. Experts termed the pollution situation here 'borderline alarming' and sought …
Mumbai: Young Mumbaikars are so badly hit by rising pollution levels that they have weak lungs, says a new study. The study, presented at the recent national conference of chest specialists in Jaipur, tested lungs — the capacity and speed of breathing in oxygen and breathing out carbon dioxide — …
A look at the background and working of the Environment Compensation Charge imposed by the Supreme Court on commercial vehicles entering Delhi. What is the Environment Compensation Charge (ECC)? Who is liable to pay; why? Acting on rising vehicular pollution in Delhi, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) directed that commercial …
New Delhi: Three days after a green tax was levied on heavy commercial vehicles, the number of trucks entering the capital has gone down by at least 30% at 124 border points. The environment compensation charge (ECC) imposed by the Supreme Court is aimed at reducing diesel emissions from trucks, …
Pollution levels during Diwali remain an area of concern in Chandigarh. RESIDENTS OF City Beautiful have a reason to worry as the quality of air in the city has deteriorated, with the quantity of particulate matter being beyond permissible limits. However, they can take solace in the fact that the …
Watch out if you feel like lighting those red 'ladi' string bombs and other smoke-emanating fireworks at Diwali. They may seem exciting, but are a host of illness triggers. When these crackers are burst, the air gets charged with partially combusted low volatile organic compounds which remain suspended in the …
NEW DELHI: Several people in Delhi who stepped out of their houses on Saturday complained about their eyes stinging and watering. They also reported an uncomfortable feeling of "being choked". This wasn't surprising because air pollution levels in the city had reached alarming proportions. Experts said that heavy vehicular traffic …
Collection of ECC had been started by the contractor as per the Supreme Court order, after a delay of six days, at 124 entry points of the city on the intervening night of November 6-7. The toll tax contractor of South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has been collecting around Rs …
Most Truck Drivers Say They Were Unaware Of New Charge, Refuse To Pay The city's major border points remained choked through the early hours of Saturday as collection of Environment Compensation Charge from multi-axle trucks started at 12am. Each truck took several minutes to pass as drivers pleaded ignorance about …
Number of trucks entering capital may drop by 30 per cent after implementation of environment cess, says tax collector After a six-day delay in the implementation of the Environment Compensation Charge or ‘environment cess’ on trucks entering Delhi, the concessionaire — SYMR Consortium LLP — has begun to collect the …
There was a state of complete chaos at the various entry points of Delhi as the toll operators started collecting Environment Compensation Charge (ECC) on Friday as mandated by the Supreme Court. There was an endless trail of vehicles, that kept further increasing, when The Pioneer visited the Ghazipur border. …
SMYR Consortium, the toll contractor appointed by the South Corporation, finally agreed to collect the environment compensation charge (ECC) from heavy commercial vehicles from Friday night. The decision comes following a series of meetings between the company and the Environment Pollution Control Authority . The Supreme Court had earlier ordered …
ENVIRONMENT MINISTRY WILL TELL STATE BOARDS TO ASK LOCAL AGENCIES TO TAKE STEPS AGAINST POLLUTION In the backdrop of deteriorating air quality due to meteorological reasons and stubble burning, the Union environment ministry on Friday decided to set up a control room at the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to …
Recent studies have shown that exposure to particulate black carbon (BC) has significant adverse health effects and may be more detrimental to human health than exposure to PM2.5 as a whole. Mobile source BC emission controls, mostly on diesel-burning vehicles, have successfully decreased mobile source BC emissions to less than …
Freshly emitted soot particles are fractal-like aggregates, but atmospheric processes often transform their morphology. Morphology of soot particles plays an important role in determining their optical properties, life cycle and hence their effect on Earth's radiative balance. However, little is known about the morphology of soot particles that participated in …
Owners of goods vehicles mandated to pay environment charge for entering Delhi from November have alleged they were being “discriminated against ” and called the tax a licence to “pay and pollute”. In a letter to the Chairman of Environment Pollution Control Authority, Bhure Lal, the All India Confederation of …
