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 …
PATIALA: A campaign launched by the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) to check vehicle pollution monitoring centres across the state has revealed that around 50% of these were violating norms for issuing certificates without actually checking the vehicles. Chairman of the board and director of ‘Tandrust Punjab’ mission, Kahan Singh …
Two wheelers with modified silencers that cause noise pollution will be impounded, Punjab Environment Minister Om Parkash Soni said today. "Impound bikes creating thumping sound due to modification of silencers," Soni told officials in a high-level meeting of the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) and Environment Department officers. Modified silencers …
The Delhi Cabinet gave its in-principle approval for the engagement of 1,000 low-floor environment-friendly electric buses in the Capital, a move which came days after the Supreme Court questioned the Kejriwal government over its proposal to procure e-buses and about the time required to set up charging stations for the …
The action plan also includes expediting strategic decommissioning of old and inefficient power plants and implementation of a large-scale feebate programme from 2020 onwards Niti Aayog has proposed 15-point action plan for combating air pollution in ten most polluted cities in the country, including Delhi, Kanpur and Varanasi. The draft …
NGT seeks report on its 2015 recall The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed Volkswagen to file an affidavit on the status of proceedings against the company in other countries pertaining to the usage of “cheat devices” in vehicles to manipulate emission levels. A Bench, on Tuesday, directed the Ministry …
The German city of Stuttgart will bar only the most polluting diesel vehicles from its streets next year and will seek to avoid a widening of the ban by taking measures to improve air quality, a state ministry said. Stuttgart, the heartland of Germany’s automotive industry, plans to start banning …
Under the European Union’s (EU) Air Quality Directive, Member States have to implement and report on the measures they put in place in areas where air quality limit and target values are exceeded. This briefing provides an overview of the different types of abatement measures reported. It focuses mainly on …
After last year’s Supreme Court order, Irdai has now mandated that every vehicle must have a valid PUC certificate on the date of renewal of motor insurance policy The insurance regulator has made it mandatory to show a valid pollution under control (PUC) certificate at the time of renewal of …
Niti Aayog has proposed 15-point action plan for combating air pollution in ten most polluted cities in the country, including Delhi, Kanpur and Varanasi. The draft action plan titled 'Breathe India' includes encouraging electric vehicles, phasing out private diesel vehicle and development of crop residue utilisation policy. According to a …
Acting tough on those violating emission norms, Irdai has said vehicles without a valid Pollution Under Control (PUC) certificate will not be insured. Irdai in a notification has directed all general insurance companies not to insure a vehicle unless it has a valid PUC certificate. Vehicle insurance is renewed every …
NEW DELHI: Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has recently directed the implementation of the entire ‘Comprehensive Action Plan (CAP) for Air Pollution Control in Delhi and NCR’ under Section 5 of the environment protection act. This plan mandates, among other things, closure of the Badarpur thermal power plant by mid-2018, …
In a bid to monitor the extent of air pollution on a real time basis, the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) will set up 11 new automatic air quality monitoring stations in the state. The new stations will be in addition to eight such stations that are already operating …
Buoyed by the enthusiasm following the Transport Department’s trial of an electric bus here a fortnight ago, the state government has moved a step closer to introducing more number of electric vehicle THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Buoyed by the enthusiasm following the Transport Department’s trial of an electric bus here a fortnight ago, …
The policy, which is the part of NITI Aayog, aims to reduce the number of vehicles on the road with the introduction of modern shared transport system like air conditioned e-bus and e-autorickshaws. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Electric vehicles (EV) or e-mobility policy draft received a sanction after few corrections from the …
The bottom-up traffic emission model EMISENS is used to calculate hourly black carbon (BC) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emission rates on an average workday in Maribor (Slovenia), using emission factors that were previously determined with the on-road chasing measurements in Slovenia. From modeled NOx emission rates and in-situ NOx measurements …
The Electric vehicles (EV) or e-mobility policy draft received a sanction after few corrections from the state department of finance on Saturday. The draft has now been forwarded to the chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan for his consent. The EV-policy draft was forwarded to the government to get their sanction by …
Several illegal pollution checking centres have mushroomed on the Delhi-Jaipur highway in the district. The centres neither have the licence to operate nor have the machine to check pollution level of vehicles. In spite of this, the centres are issuing “pollution under control certificates” by charging Rs 50 from vehicle …
PANAJI: Pollution under control (PUC) centres in state soon may not face the consequence of cancellation of their licence in case of norms violation as the transport department has proposed a fine of Rs 10,000 for the first offence and Rs 25,000 for the subsequent offence. The existing harsher penalty …
This is the first time government testing centres are being set up. Hyderabad: The Regional Transport Authority is to establish government authorised pollution testing centres at the RTOs in Khairatabad, Bandlaguda and Secunderabad in the next 15 days. This is the first time government testing centres are being set up. …
The Centre plans to scrap cash incentives currently offered to buyers of electric cars despite having incentivised these clean fuel technologies till just a few months back. The move, experts said, will further dampen sales of private electric cars. Policy-makers justified the move, saying the government has now decided to …
