Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Containers from sunken ship likely to drift towards Alappuzha, Kollam Coasts in 48 hours: INCOIS" appearing in The Hindu dated 25.05.2025 dated 27/05/2025. The original application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled …
The 2016 Rules supersede the Municipal Solid Waste Rules, 2000 and expand the ambit of application to every urban local body, including outgrowths in urban agglomerations, census towns, areas under Railways and airports. It has been over a year since the Solid Waste Management Rules 2016 (SWMR) were notified on …
The draft “Guidelines on Environmental Management of C&D; Waste Management in India (2017)” has been prepared by CPCB in compliance of under Duties of the Central Pollution Control Board under Rule 10 sub-rule 1(a) of Construction and Demolition (C&D;) Waste Management Rules, 2016 states ‘- prepare operational guidelines related to …
Carbon footprint is broadly defined as carbon dioxide (CO2.) emissions normalized per unit mass of a product or per unit of an activity. It is considered as an important environmental indicator for comparing various products or activities. Fired solid clay brick is a popular walling material in India. Manufacturing of …
A team of University of Colorado Boulder engineers has developed a scalable manufactured meta material — an engineered material with extraordinary properties not found in nature — to act as a kind of air conditioning system for structures. It has the ability to cool objects even under direct sunlight with …
Hyderabad: Municipal commissioners will be given magisterial powers to penalise those throwing garbage, plastic and construction waste on the roads, illegally installing posters, banners or flexis, scrawling graffiti in public spaces, defacing public property and defecating in the open. Cases will be booked against politicians, irrespective of the party they …
NAVI MUMBAI: A large plot of land, belonging to a shipyard, near the Panvel creek has come under the lens of Maharashtra Maritime Board (MMB). A city-based NGO has complained to the authorities that debris is being dumped on mangroves to reclaim land. The 40,000-odd sq m plot is near …
Increasing frequency and intensity of earthquakes has renewed the urgency in improving the preparedness and in making the infrastructure earthquake-resistant. Sikkim, a northeastern Indian Himalayan state, was hit by a 6.9 magnitude earthquake of intensity VII on 18 September 2011, which triggered hundreds of boulder falls and landslides, causing extensive …
Contractors who reinforced buildings "on the cheap" may have run up the death toll in central Italy's devastating earthquake and could face criminal charges, a local prosecutor said Sunday. Also Sunday, Pope Francis pledged to visit "as soon as possible" the Italian towns that took the brunt of Wednesday's temblor. …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Shantanu Sharma Vs Union of India & Others dated 24/08/2016 regarding the use of fly ash as land fill to reclaim low lying areas including backfilling in abandoned mines or pitheads.
"We hereby direct that construction sites which are built on a plot area of more than 20,000 square metre would be liable to pay environmental compensation of Rs 5,00,000 per violation," a bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar said. Buildings generating high levels of dust in Delhi and …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone, Chennai) in the matter of Susan Rajan George Vs State of Kerala & Others dated 13/07/2016 regarding excavation and use of red earth, Mavelikara taluk, Alappuzha district.
Gurgaon: The MCG is all set to sign a deal with private firm Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS;) on Monday to set up a waste treatment plant near Basai to check the haphazard dumping of construction and demolition waste in the city. The authority claims that the plant will …
The slowdown has dragged down home real estate prices across India but has the meltdown been worse in larger cities than Tier 2 cities? And what lies ahead for India's Tier 2 towns especially now with the government pushing for affordable homes. In this segment, we focus on key Tier …
The National Green Tribunal has taken exception to indiscriminate dumping of soil in rivers Chenab and Tawi for construction of road on the Udhampur to Banihal stretch of the national highway and restrained authorities from throwing any debris in the water bodies. A Bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter …
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) will monitor the disposal of construction and demolition waste with Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) coming up with the new Construction and Demolition (waste management ) rules, 2016. It has also come as a relief for the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC), …
Environmentalists and officials hailed the Union environment ministry's maiden rules to manage construction and demolition waste, terming it a significant step forward to stop degradation of land. The ministry came out with the Construction and Demolition Waste Management Rules, 2016, at the end of the last month. "The Centre for …
Behind the glitz of new and tall buildings in the city is a trail of chunky construction debris with no accountability for its management or disposal -until now. The Centre has come out with new rules to handle construction and demolition waste. The norms include segregating construction debris into steel, …
Welcoming the Centre's decision to notify construction and demolition management rules, a green body today said it was "urgently" needed as cities are choking on such waste which has serious environmental and public health consequences. The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said the next step should be to create …
Taking a decisive step towards combating the problem of dust from construction activities polluting the air, the Centre on Tuesday notified the country's first ever `Construction and Demolition Waste Management Rules' to stipulate proper disposal and recycling of such waste. The rules, which are to be implemented and enforced by …
The Government has notified Construction & Demolition Waste Management Rules, 2016 for the first time. Outlining the salient features of the Construction & Waste Management Rules, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, said that the rules are an initiative to effectively tackle the issues …
