Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton Canal nearly choked due to garbage dumping appearing in the DT Next dated 11.05.2025". The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton …
NGT Asks Govt To Explain On Tuesday Main Reason For Air Pollution In City National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Monday directed the Union transport ministry to submit its views on what is contributing to air pollution in Delhi. Reacting to the Centre's previous affidavits which stated that transport isn't the …
NGT concerned over poor air quality levels Concerned over the growing number of vehicles, which experts claim, contribute to the deteriorating quality of air in the national capital region (NCR), the National Green Tribunal (NGT) is likely to take a final decision on banning over 10-year-old diesel vehicles from plying …
The Government of India has chalked out an ambitious plan to invest one lakh crore rupees over a period of five years for improvement of road communication in the entire north-eastern region and the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways started holding workshops for all the stakeholders from today. Today …
NAGPUR: The union highways and transport ministry headed by Nitin Gadkari and environment ministry by Prakash Javadekar seem headed for a face-off over wildlife mitigation measures in four-laning of NH-7 and NH-6 in the Central Indian landscape. The latest report on proposed mitigation measures for maintaining habitat contiguity and reducing …
PUNE: Buses running on biofuels in cities like Pune and Kolhapur will soon become a reality if the central government's ambitious 'Green Bus' project goes according to plan. Union minister of road transport and highway Nitin Gadkari has asked the state government to prepare a plan to introduce green buses …
On June 3, last year, Delhi woke up to the news of Gopinath Munde, Union Rural Development Minister, who was declared dead at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. Minutes earlier, Mr. Munde (64) was involved in an accident while on his way to the IGI airport, when his …
After taking charge, NDA government had announced two of its major priorities as enactment of the Amendments to Essential Commodities Act to crackdown on hoarders black marketers, and Road Transport and Safety Bill replacing the Motor Vehicle Act. However, progress on the two laws has been so slow, that the …
The Capital continues to choke even six months after the National Green Tribunal (NGT) ordered a ban on all petrol and diesel vehicles over 15 years of age in Delhi-NCR. The ban was eventually stayed by the NGT till July. The vehicles under review are the ones conforming to older …
The Road Safety Committee formed by the Supreme Court to check lax enforcement of road laws has set the States a June 30 deadline to enforce 13 of its directives. They include removal of roadside advertisements and posters that obstruct the view of drivers or distract them and a ban …
A day after being criticised by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) for preparing a report that “lacked data and analysis”, IIT-Delhi scientists who authored the study came out in support of it. The 13-page report concludes that diesel vehicles over 10 years of age form only seven per cent of …
A day after being criticised by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) for preparing a report that "lacked data and analysis", IIT-Delhi scientists who authored the study came out in support of it. The 13-page report concludes that diesel vehicles over 10 years of age form only seven per cent of …
The Ministry had also suggested that the state transport departments of Delhi and NCR should check the authenticity through scientific random sampling process. While extending the stay on the ban on plying of 10-year-old vehicles until May 25, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) pulled up the Centre and a team …
He said transport rules will be tightened in the next two years to combat alarming levels of pollution Lobbying by automobile companies will not stop transport rules from being tightened in two years to combat the alarming air pollution levels in New Delhi, said Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday. …
Air pollution which is known to cause poor lung and heart health may also cause a stroke, new research suggests. The findings of the research, which has been published in the British Medical Journal, are based on an analysis of 103 studies, involving 6.2 million hospitalizations and deaths because of …
While transport and truckers’ associations that met Delhi Transport Minister Gopal Rai on Tuesday rued the ten year cap imposed on diesel vehicles by the National Green Tribunal (NGT), Rai on Wednesday said the government will conduct a “simple reality test” on diesel vehicles to determine their fitness at the …
The Indian Foundation of Transport Research and Training (IFTRT) has pointed out that a gazette notification of 2012 by the ministry of road transport and highways made it mandatory for any vehicle coming into Delhi NCR to follow BS-IV emission norms. This is observed more in breach. “For years, we …
The eco-friendly e-rickshaws will now ply as a legal mode of transport on city roads. For the public, it means another option for commuting besides auto-rickshaws, tempos and buses. Though battery-powered e-rickshaws were already plying on many routes, they were considered unauthorised as they were not registered with the regional …
Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways and Shipping Nitin Gadkari has said that besides Swachh Bharat, the Centre aims to make India a pollution-free country by encouraging the use of alternative fuel on a large scale. He was speaking after inaugurating a bus manufacturing facility of Sweden-based Scania Commercial …
Apparently worried about the possibility of strong public reaction, the Road Transport and Highways Ministry has watered down the penalties it had originally proposed in the Draft Road Transport and Safety Bill. Sources in the ministry said that the decision to water down the penalties in the Bill have been …
Arunachal Pradesh has urged the Centre to approve the proposed 2,000-km road from Tawang to Vijaynagar to provide connectivity to the border areas along the MacMohan line by declaring it as National Highway. State PWD Minister Gojen Gadi made the plea during a meeting with Union Minister of State for …
