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 …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Permissible PM10 concentration, 27/03/2017. World Health Organization (WHO) has published ‘WHO Air quality guidelines for particulate matter, ozone, nitrogen dioxide and sulphur dioxide’ during the year 2005. The guidelines are intended for reference by countries to provide appropriate targets for a broad range of …
'City on brink of danger; timely action need of the hour' According to an independent study of air quality in Mangaluru, the air in the city is high in lead content and bears borderline indications of approaching danger on other parameters. The study was conducted by APD Foundation under its …
The renovation and modernisation of ailing thermal power plants under the 12th Five Year Plan has been severely affected by poor financial condition of state utilities as a mere 4,702.26 MW capacity could be modernised against the planned target of around 30,000 MW for the period 2012-17. Higher project cost …
The government has decided to set up 20 new air quality monitoring stations this year before winter when the air quality deteriorates significantly owing to multiple reasons. Processing of tenders has already started and this process will be completed by April, said the government. The stations will monitor eight parameters …
The government looks set to extend the December 2017 deadline for coal-fired power stations to meet stricter emission norms, allowing time for them to consider replacing retro plants with modern units that release much less particulate and gaseous pollutants into the air. According to power minister Piyush Goyal, the environment …
While PM 2.5 and PM 10 stayed above the national standards, values of SO2 (Sulphur dioxide) recorded in Delhi were within the National Ambient Air Quality Standard. 2016 was particularly bad for the national capital in terms of air quality with the volume of ultrafine particulates PM 2.5 and PM …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Environmental Pollution, 07/02/2017. Government of Delhi has carried out with the help of IIT Kanpur, a comprehensive study of air pollution in Delhi and identified major sources of air pollution viz. road dust, vehicular emissions, construction and demolition waste, industries, gensets and secondary particulate …
Several senior officials of civic bodies and government departments here were today directed by the Delhi High Court to appear before it for "failure" to comply with its order to remove debris and traffic congestion from Anand Vihar to improve the air quality in that area. A bench of Justices …
Air Pollution Levels In Focus The high court on Thursday summoned the top brass of several agencies over their failure to check rising air pollution levels in east Delhi's Anand Vihar, bordering Uttar Pradesh. A bench of Justices B D Ahmed and Ashutosh Kumar were shocked by photographs tabled by …
MANGALURU: We all knew that Mangaluru's ambient air quality was not in the pink of health — if not at all places, but at some major stress points in the city. This has been proved right by the study done by Anti-Pollution Drive (APD) Foundation 'Shudda Gaali' in their #StopSmokyVehicles …
People with low income often experience higher exposures to air pollutants.We compared the exposure to particulate matter (PM1, PM2.5 and PM10), Black Carbon (BC) and ultrafine particles (PNCs; 0.02–1 μm) for typical commutes by car, bus and underground from 4 London areas with different levels of income deprivation (G1 to …
Air quality in the city remained ‘very poor’ on Thursday with the level of particulates violating safe standards by up to three times during the parade hours when thousands thronged Rajpath. According to SAFAR, the running average of PM2.5 and PM10 were 130 and 236 micrograms per cubic metre respectively, …
MUMBAI: Air pollution contributed to a total of 80,665 premature deaths of adults over 30 years in Mumbai and Delhi in 2015, a two-fold jump from 1995, according to a new study at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. In economic terms, air pollution cost the two cities $10.66 billion …
KOLKATA: A much-awaited study to detect the source of air pollution and quantify the amount of contaminents in Kolkata and Howrah has finally been commissioned by the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB). Source apportionment studies have already been done for Delhi, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Chennai, Pune and Kanpur. The two-year …
Breathing in India’s cities seems to have become a dangerous activity. It is almost as deadly as using tobacco. According to a recent report issued by global environment NGO, Greenpeace, air pollution in India claims the lives of around 1.2 million people annually, just a “fraction less” than tobacco deaths …
MUMBAI: Air pollution was responsible for 23 million cases of restricted activity days (RAD) - either less productive days or days off work for individuals - in the commercial capital in 2015. Worsening quality of air in the city also led to 64,037 emergency room visits in 2015 by those …
A Greenpeace report shows 90% of cities studied had pollution levels over prescribed standards Delhi’s toxic air may be making news every few months. But pollution levels across the country are alarming too. A new report released here on Wednesday shows that over 90 per cent of the cities studied …
Greenpeace Report Says Just 14 Cities, Most Of Them In South, Meet National Standard Delhi leads the list of most polluted cities in the country followed by several in UP , Jharkhand, Haryana and Bihar, a report by Greenpeace India has revealed. The list of 20 most polluted cities in …
Greenpeace India report blames fossil fuel use The world is becoming cleaner even as India, almost as a whole, is getting a lot filthier, a new report by Greenpeace India shows. China, which was roundly criticised across the globe for being its infamous haze and air pollution, has been steadily …
None of the Indian cities complies with standards prescribed by the World Health Organization (WHO) on air quality, stated a report of Greenpeace, global NGO working on environmental issues. Also, very few cities in south India even comply with the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) standards on air quality. Karnataka, …
