Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
The Supreme Court Women Lawyers Association recently moved the National Green Tribunal (NGT) voicing its anguish over the increasing levels of pollution in Delhi due to trucks passing through the city despite a 2001 Supreme Court order banning those. The association of women lawyers practising in the Supreme Court and …
The Philippines on Wednesday ordered oil companies, including Petron Corp and local units of Shell and Chevron, to sell only Euro IV-compliant fuels by July 1 in a drive to boost air quality in the Southeast Asian country. While there have been improvements in the capital Manila, air quality in …
Minister Environment Col (r) Shuja Khanzada on Monday stressed the need of collective efforts to check ever increasing vehicular pollution in Punjab. Secretary Environment Anwar Rasheed, DG EPA Punjab Farooq Hameed Sh, Director EIA Naseem ur Rehman Shah and Senior officials of Excise and Taxation, Transport and Pakistan Standards and …
The Punjab government has launched public welfare oriented mega project of Bus Rapid Transport System (BRTS) in the City, but without holding any public moot or proper survey of environmental impact of plying diesel-run buses on the City routes, sources informed TheNation. They further said that the above-mentioned project might …
The just out Economic Survey of Pakistan notes that although air quality in many of our cities is bad, studies conducted in Lahore and Karachi show that carbon monoxide, cadmium and lead levels in these cities far exceed the internationally accepted threshold limits. An estimated 60 to 70 percent pollution …
Ministry of Environment has decided to enforce Euro-II emission standards for all new petrol driven imported and locally manufactured vehicles from July this year and the same standard would be applicable for diesel driven automobiles from July 2012. According to a senior official of the Environment Ministry the decision to …
Ministry of Environment has decided to enforce Euro-II emission standards for all new petrol driven imported and locally manufactured vehicles from July this year and the same standard would be applicable for diesel driven automobiles from July 2012. According to a senior official of the Environment Ministry the decision to …
The government has decided to do something important about vehicular emissions that have reached highly dangerous levels. Federal Ministry of Environment told the National Assembly on Monday that all petrol-run vehicles would be required to comply with Euro-II emission standards with effect from July. The deadline for diesel vehicles' compliance …
The government has decided to do something important about vehicular emissions that have reached highly dangerous levels. Federal Ministry of Environment told the National Assembly on Monday that all petrol-run vehicles would be required to comply with Euro-II emission standards with effect from July. The deadline for diesel vehicles' compliance …
The Ministry of Environment has set itself a challenging task of introducing Euro-II emission standards for petrol driven vehicles from July this year and for diesel driven automobiles from July 2012. The National Assembly was informed on Monday that to cut down on increasing air pollution in the country, the …
The Ministry of Environment has set itself a challenging task of introducing Euro-II emission standards for petrol driven vehicles from July this year and for diesel driven automobiles from July 2012. The National Assembly was informed on Monday that to cut down on increasing air pollution in the country, the …
The government plans to introduce Euro-II emission standards for all petrol-related vehicles, imported or locally assembled, from July 1, 2009, while such standards for diesel vehicles would be enforced from July 1, 2012. The Engineering Development Board has forwarded a draft of the Euro-II standards to stakeholders as proposed by …
After switching the entire public bus transport fleet in the Capital to eco-friendly Compressed Natural Gas, the Delhi Government is now making efforts to introduce electric vehicles in the city to further reduce air pollution. Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit announced in the Delhi Assembly on Tuesday that electric cars would …
Twisha Lahiri works at the Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute in Kolkata. For some years now, she has been busy measuring the impact of air pollution on people in Kolkata and Delhi. Her results should worry us: 56 per cent of people in Kolkata and 46 per cent in Delhi she …
When I think of the government's newly cleared Auto Fuel Policy, the image of Nero fiddling while Rome burnt comes to mind. The document apparently sets the roadmap to meet clean air targets in Indian cities - in other words, show how to secure mobility and public health. Instead, all …
function opensmog1(){ var popurl="html/20030831_smog1.htm" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=500,height=500,scrollbars=yes") } The recent release from the Central Pollution Control Board (cpcb), Parivesh, January 2003, presents deadly facts about air pollution levels in Indian cities. According to the report, Ahmedabad's air is the most noxious. Kanpur, Solapur and Lucknow follow closely, with small particulate levels (pm10) …
on march 28, 2003, the Calcutta High Court passed an order which, if implemented, would make Kolkata the country's only city with 100 per cent Bharat Stage-ii compliance (equivalent to Euro-ii). The court ruled: "All vehicles, be it private or commercial, operating in the Kolkata Metropolitan Area (kma) have to …
• Maruti Udyog Limited is unable to keep pace with the demand for Zen-D, the diesel variant of one of its best-selling models. • There is a huge order backlog and a six-week waiting period for the Accent crd i, the diesel version of Hyundai Motors' mid-sized car. • The …
After figuring in the list of 27 most polluted cities in India, Kochi in Kerala has decided to advance the deadline for the conversion of all vehicles to Euro-II norms from 2005. In view of the high pollution levels, the Kerala State Pollution Control Board has been directed to submit …
Ever since the Supreme Court ordered non-cng (compressed natural gas) public vehicles off the road, Delhi commuters have been in the grip of a crisis. The Bhure Lal Committee's preference for cng won the day over the earlier Mashelkar Committee report, which recommended multiple fuels, including diesel, for Delhi. The …
