Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
The National Green Tribunal Wednesday restrained Punjab from spending the first instalment of Rs 16.13 crores being disbursed by Union Urban Development Ministry for controlling contamination of under-ground water in the state till it examines the details as to how they want to spend the money. A bench headed by …
AURANGABAD: The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) issued closure notice to two major industries operating in Waluj industrial area on Monday. The industries were found to be repeatedly violating pollution norms. The notices were issued to Endurance Technologies Pvt Ltd and Midas Care Pharmaceuticals Pvt Ltd for releasing effluents outside …
Environmentalists have questioned the utility of sewage treatment plants (STPs) after the draft environment status report (ESR) of the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) showed a rise in pollution levels in Pavana, Indrayani and Mula rivers. Vikas Patil, environmental activist and president of Nadi Vikas Manch, said there are many …
Union minister for environment Prakash Javadekar said here on Sunday that all cities across the country will be required to produce a city environment plan that will deal with issues of pollution and solid waste management, among others. “Every city will have to produce its own environmental plan. We are …
Smart is as smart does. The government's proposal to build 100 "smart" cities will work only if it can reinvent the very idea of urban growth in a country such as India. Smart thinking will require the government to not only copy the model cities of the already developed Western …
NEW DELHI: Kicking off the process to implement its ambitious clean Ganga mission, the Centre has sanctioned six new sewage treatment plants (STPs) for different cities and towns along the river in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal. These STPs, cleared under the national mission for clean Ganga (NMCG), will …
Chandigarh, July 24: The quality of water of the Sutlej is deteriorating at a fast pace as the much-publicised Sutlej Action Plan (SAP) has failed to yield any result, said a report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India. The water of the river has been degrading by …
KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Ministry of Health Monday announced that, $389 million will be spent on rehabilitating a number of sewage treatment plants at hospitals across the island as part of phase two of a sewage treatment project. The ministry says existing mechanical systems will be refurbished under this phase …
West Bengal's best-known expert on rivers, Kalyan Rudra, 62, and Babu Bhai, a 32-year-old fisherman, have a common lament-hilsa, the fish that can tingle Bengali taste buds like nothing else on earth, has gone missing from the Ganga. The fisherman, who's plied his little boat from the rusty jetty at …
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. …
The Mussoorie Dehradun Development Authority (MDDA) is clearing maps of buildings without checking if builders have got no-objection-certificate from the state pollution control board, an SPCB official said. The board's director, Vinod Singhal, said that some such buildings were later found to have violated regulations on sewage treatment and solid …
The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has issued a warning to the hotels in the state which are without sewage treatment plants (STPs) but are operating 19 rooms. The court, in its orders made available today, observed that the permission to the hotels in A-category to operate 19 rooms was …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Ashok Mittal & Others Vs. NCT of Delhi & Others dated 17/07/2014 on the issue of natural drains in Delhi and its present status. The Tribunal has directed the Expert Committee to consider two major alternatives …
The Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) has issued a show notice to Public Works Department (PWD) for inefficient operation of the sewage treatment plant (STP) at Patto, thereby creating environment and water pollution in the vicinity. PWD has been directed to show cause within seven days failing which legal …
Every year the state and union budgets raise hopes that the Yamuna may after all soon get a new lease of life. In fact, the Delhi government's budget has been making the exact same promise for seven years. Providing sewerage in urban villages and unauthorized colonies and laying interceptor sewers …
An environment think tank today said although the union budget had "many nice words and some money" but it failed to show any direction for "real change." Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said although the announcement of national adaption fund a first step to recognise the need to invest …
Environmentalist Sunita Narain Thursday raised questions on allocations on clean energy and Ganga conservation that were announced by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in his maiden budget Thursday. On enhanced clean energy cess on coal, which has been increased from Rs.50 to Rs.100 per tonne, Narain - also the director general …
This is the first administrative decision by NDA govt after it projected the cleaning of the Ganges as a priority The division overseeing the cleaning of rivers under the ministry of environment and forests will soon be shifted to the river development and Ganga rejuvenation department, water resources ministry, headed …
