Air quality monitoring project on anvil
Surat: The Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) will begin the ambient air quality monitoring project to closely watch air pollution levels in the city. This project will be undertaken jointly with the
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Gujarat Pollution Control Board takes civic bodies to task
Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has issued notices to eight municipal corporations and 159 municipalities for not following guidelines on solid waste disposal. The corporations given notices are
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“Shared learning” for building urban climate resilience – experiences from Asian cities
This paper considers how resilience thinking and, in particular, its emphasis on learning has been applied in 10 cities in Vietnam, India, Thailand and Indonesia. Applying a “shared learning” approach
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Gujarat govt plans 60 Mw solar power through roof-top units in next 3 years
Mulls a policy to attract manufacturers in solar power sector. Gujarat government on Monday said that it plans to install about 60 Mw solar power generation capacity in the next three years through roof-top
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Surat solid waste management project under JNNURM
Surat’s sporadic expansion between the 80’s and the 90’s resulted in a major service gap in the field of solid waste management (SWM). It resulted in one of the major epidemic in the form of Plague in
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1st City To Have Green Building Council
Surat: The Diamond City has started taking baby steps on the green path. It is moving towards becoming the first city in India to have a green building council (GBC) that would ensure that the new buildings
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Cities turn into concrete ovens
Cities are creaking under their own weight. And heat. In Surat, for instance, parts of the city with dense concrete jungles swelter at temperatures 5 degrees higher than the city’s greener parts. This
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Sewage fouls Tapi’s purity
190 Govt Offices With Illegal Sewage Connections Release Waste Into The River Surat: River Tapi stinks because of release of untreated sewage water into it by many government and other offices. Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) had found Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), income tax department, government circuit house and police among those responsible for releasing sewage waters directly into Tapi.
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For people, Surat & Ahd top list
New Delhi: In sharp contrast with the findings of the first Annual Survey of India’s City-Systems, Surat and Ahmedabad topped the list of 11 cities in the public survey on quality of life and city-system.
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Urbanisation to fuel 40% rise in power demand by 2017 in 13 cities
Electricity energy requirement in these cities to rise to 15,68,73 MUs by end of 12th plan. Urbanisation, development of infrastructure and increase in the number of malls and shopping complexes will lead
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‘80% of sewage water enters rivers untreated’
New Delhi: Is urban India drowning in its own excreta? Nearly 80% of the sewage generated in India flows untreated into its rivers, lakes and ponds, turning the water sources too polluted to use. The end