Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect and poor maintenance appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 25.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect …
Bhopal: A bomb is ticking on biomedical waste heap in Madhya Pradesh, as at least 22,071 kilograms of hazardous waste are being dumped in the open without treatment in the state every year. As per Bio-Medical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 1998, if not handled properly, this waste is a …
The health care establishments in Assam were functioning without obtaining authorization from the Pollution Control Board, Assam (PCBA) in blatant violation of the Bio-Medical Waste Rules, said the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) in his report on the Government of Assam. This is gross violation of the bio-medical …
The Environment ministry released the new Bio-medical Waste Management Rules, 2016 which will bring in a wider and more comprehensive regime for bio waste management. The new bio-medical waste management rules will change the way country used to manage this waste earlier. Under the new regime, the coverage has increased …
As dumping and burning of around 200 kg of bio-medical waste has led to environmental pollution at Kadamba Plateau, Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) has directed the Health Department to collect and dispose the waste at the earliest, failing which legal action will be initiated. Following complaints from locals, …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Subrato Mookherjee Vs West Bengal Pollution Control Board & Others dated 17/02/2016 regarding bio-medical waste management and implementation of Bio-Medical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 1998. West Bengal Pollution Control Board will submit status report and …
Meerut: The state Pollution Control Board has sent notice to as many as 17 nursing homes for not following the biomedical waste disposal norms. The board has sought their explanation within seven days and warned that appropriate action under the pollution control Act would be taken if they failed to …
The Goa state pollution control board (GSPCB) has directed Old Goa police station to investigate and identify the persons involved in dumping and burning of bio-medical waste in an open space at Kadamba plateau, Bainguinim, Old Goa, which has been causing environmental pollution. GSPCB has directed Old Goa police to …
TOI had reported that as many as 104 hospitals and nursing homes out of 253 had not taken permits from Pollution Control Board and had no means of disposing off their biomedical waste. On Monday, 13 nursing homes and hospitals were issued a show cause notice by Meerut Municipal Corporation …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Sustainability and Human Resources Initiative Vs. State of Madhya Pradesh & Others dated 18/11/2015 regarding biomedical waste disposal in hospitals and other health facilities of Madhya Pradesh.
Hospital employees in cahoots with scrap dealers making a mockery of biomedical waste handling rules More than a month after The Sentinel exposed how nearly 80 per cent of hospitals, diagnostic centres and laboratories in the State are flouting norms and disposing off potentially infectious waste in a haphazard, improper …
Environmental activists have approached the National Green Tribunal (NGT) over severe damage to the Aravali forests, particularly along the Gurgaon-Faridabad and Gurgaon-Delhi roads. They have listed indiscriminate dumping of waste, as well as destruction of the groundwater table and its poisoning at the Bandhwari sewage treatment plant as causes. Environmentalist …
Nagpur: Another goof-up by Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) at Bhandewadi area has come to the fore. The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has slammed the corporation for disposing dead animals in an unscientific and illegal manner and violating rules of Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF), thus causing environmental damage …
PANJIM: Even as the Goa Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) is yet to identify 10,000 sq mtrs of land in the industrial estates for setting up of Common Biomedical Waste Treatment Facility (CBMWTF) to treat the medical waste in Goa, the State government has constituted ten member Expert Committee to expedite …
The Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) said on Wednesday none of the 85 hospitals in the city have applied for authorization for disposing of biomedical waste (BMW). This includes the government-run General Hospital in Sector 10. "None of the city hospitals, including a government one, follow our biomedical waste …
The city has around 1,500 general practitioners but just 250 of them have been registered with the firm appointed to collect and dispose of the biomedical waste generated in the city. And, the Satara-based firm has threatened to stop the service after May 5 since the doctors have been found …
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has published the draft “Bio-Medical Waste (Management & Handling) Rules, 2015” to enable the prescribed authorities to implement the rules more effectively, thereby, reducing the bio- medical waste generation and also for its proper treatment and disposal and to ensure environmentally sound …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Dr. Alankrita Mehra Vs. Union of India & Nine Ors. dated 12/03/2015 regarding government medical facilities and establishments not following biomedical waste rules in Madhya Pradesh.
Chennai and Mumbai are the only big Indian cities with an effective system to manage biomedical waste, whereas Delhi and other north Indian state capitals have a poor record, a study has found. The survey by the International Clinical Epidemiology Network published in the Indian Journal of Medical Research, covered …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Sustainability and Human Resources Vs The State of Madhya Pradesh dated 17/11/2014 regarding non compliance by the Madhya Pradesh Medical & Health Department and hospitals pathological laboratories etc. in the city of Bhopal with regard to …
Corporation can take action against the hospitals, doctors told. All hospitals and nursing homes in the city have to strictly comply with the Bio Medical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 1998 or face penal action, City Health Officer S. Mariappan cautioned on Thursday. Issuing a stern warning to hospitals and …
