Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Crossings Republik Flat Owner Association Vs State of Uttar Pradesh dated 29/11/2023. In this original application, Applicant has questioned the setting up of a Bio-CNG plant with 300 TPD capacity at Khasra Nos. 121, 122, 123, 124, 129, 304, 305 …
the Delhi cng drama is about to be re-enacted in Mumbai. But there is a difference. Like the Supreme Court in Delhi, the Mumbai high court has taken the initiative to clean up the air of India's commercial capital. However, the Mumbai government is proactive towards moving to cng , …
Mahatma gandhi had announced an award of Rs one lakh to anyone who could improve the design of the charka (manual spinning wheel). That was 1929. Today, it would amount to as much as Rs two crore. That was the Mahatma's way of encouraging development of sound technologies
What is the Delhi government's plan of action? The plan of action is very simple. To order as many [CNG] buses as possible, as are being manufactured. To try and persuade the government of India to try and give us as much as possible. I do not want chaos on …
While answering questions on a live chat on a website (www.chat.india-today.com), Delhi transport minister Parvez Hashmi abdicated all responsibility of the state government to ensure the implementation of the Supreme Court cng order. "The commitment made to the honourable courts are being done by the manufacturers that they will be …
The Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company (telco), one of the two leading diesel bus manufacturers in India, is clearly not very happy with the cng solution. The company has been still looking for a chance to negotiate for diesel. Since April 1999, when the Supreme Court began to address the …
The petroleum authority of Thailand (ptt) has signed a contract with Ford Motors to work on a research project that aims to encourage the use of bioethanol fuels instead of diesel in vehicles. The country will soon have its first taste of passenger vehicles running on compressed natural gas (cng). …
As governance formally surrendered the administration of Delhi to chaos on All Fools' Day, April 1, 2001, the fate of its citizens' health and public transport continued to hang in balance. Ministers and politicians had a field day blaming each other for the chaos and rioting that broke out on …
• Ashok Pradhan, principal secretary to the transport department of Delhi, has to take personal responsibility that each and every diesel bus on Delhi's roads from April 1, 2001 is plying because a new CNG bus or conversion has already been ordered to replace it. A sticker, signed by Pradhan, …
The Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI) is reopening the diesel versus CNG debate in Delhi. Several reports in the media have been quoting the institute to say that ultra-low sulphur diesel (ULSD) is better that CNG to solve Delhi's air pollution problem economically. TERI got the lieutenant governor of Delhi …
l Ashok Pradhan, principal secretary to the transport department of Delhi, has to take personal responsibility that each and every diesel bus on Delhi's roads from April 1, 2001 is plying because a new CNG bus or conversion has already been ordered to replace it. A sticker, signed by Pradhan, …
the Delhi Transport Corporation (dtc) has once again showed its hypocrisy regarding the Supreme Court's order to convert the existing bus fleet to compressed natural gas (cng). On the eve of the apex court's March 31, 2001 deadline, it issued a global tender for the purpose, the technical bid for …
• When all buses, autos and taxis which ply in Delhi move to cng by 2001, the total pollution load of nitrogen oxides (NOx) from vehicles will reduce by about 18 per cent against the target of 68 per cent by 2010. • NOx pollution levels will be still so …
What message are you sending by slapping an eight per cent duty on a clean fuel like the compressed natural gas (CNG)? Will it not jolt to the nascent CNG market, when the tax generated will amount to a mere Rs 6 crore? Won't it also jeopardise the Supreme Court's …
CSE Pollution Load Model CSE estimated the actual impact of moving public vehicles to cng fuel on the air pollution load of Delhi. The model helps to predict the future vehicular pollution load in two possible scenarios. Impacts of interventions such as those ordered by the Supreme Court are measured …
The cse study shows that the cng strategy will help to get closest to the clean air target compared to slow changes in diesel technology. • When buses, autos and taxis move to cng by 2001, the total particulate emissions load from vehicles will reduce by about 32 per cent …
hailed as a "bold' step to create the right environment for economic reforms, the Union Budget, presented by Union finance minister Yashwant Sinha on February 28, totally ignores the real environment. Rather, it creates an atmosphere to pollute the environment in more ways than one. At a time when there …
If you saw tv programmes or read newspapers on the latest budget, you would have thought it is only for business leaders. The manner in which business editors and columnists went overboard to seek the response of the corporate community to Yashwant Sinha's latest hat-trick of budgetary numbers shows a …
