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 …
GAYA: Drain effluents enter Falgu riverbed at no less than 24 points thereby aggravating subsurface water pollution. In several localities of the town, handpumps and submersible machines draw water with bad odour and higher mud content. For several years now, the proposal to channelize drain effluents and establish water treatment …
Last year, residents had recovered around 25 huge bags of garbage, mostly with beer bottles from the area. Mumbai: The Charkop lake, which was a flourishing bird site before, has been reduced to a virtual dumping site. While citizens have regularly held clean up drives to create awareness about the …
HYDERABAD: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) might have announced a war against the use of plastic bags, but the rampant use of polythene bags at the ongoing 78th All India Industrial Exhibition, popularly known as Numaish, in Nampally tells an entirely different story. At the annual trade fair, which …
BHOPAL: Smoke billowed from the burning garbage at the Bhanpur dumping grounds in the state capital, affecting colonies some as far as three kilometres away, on Tuesday. Fire in the garbage dumping ground was reportedly doused a day earlier. The intense smoke affected road and railway traffic all through the …
The much-awaited Solid Waste management Compost Plant at Shishambara here has begun functioning today. The plant intends to solve the waste-management problems of the city, by ensuring that the waste generated is converted into manure. “We were forced to spend money to look for ways for disposing off the waste …
A weekly health report of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) suggests an unusual rise in the vector-borne diseases. The health department of the civic body, on Monday, reported 51 vector-borne cases within 20 days of the month. Generally, the vector-borne diseases appear during monsoon and post-monsoon period. The vector-borne diseases have …
The Jaipur Municipal Corporation(JMC) is violating the directions of the Supreme Court and the Solid Waste Handling Rules in a bid to bag the top slot in the Swachh Survekshan-2018. The civic body is burning garbage to keep the city spick and span. However, the waste cannot be burnt under …
The North Delhi Municipal Corporation under which the firecracker factory in Bawana caught fire on Saturday, killing 17 workers trapped inside it, did not have a "working license", a senior officer said on Sunday. The municipal corporation issues factory/trade license to these factories while the area is governed by the …
PIMPRI CHINCHWAD: The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) will soon stop accepting wet waste from bulk garbage generators such as housing societies, hotels, colleges and restaurants. Officials said by March 31, bulk generators should have their own wet waste disposal system within premises. The rule applies to businesses and individuals …
Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) announced cleanliness awards as part of the ongoing Swachh Survekshan 2018 initiated by Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. Swachh Survekshan is a comprehensive examination undertaken by Government of India to assess development and achievement by cities against defined goals of the Swachh Bharat Mission. …
The PMC is also trying to identify more civic buildings to generate additional 176 KWP to achieve its target of 1 MW of solar energy via rooftop solar panels. The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is going to sign an agreement with the Solar Energy Corporation of India to generate 824 …
HYDERABAD: When the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) mooted the idea of waste segregation, it also decided to hire Community Resource Persons (CRPs) to spread awareness on the issue. While the idea of CRPs may have been a sound one, discrepancies in the GHMC records have left activists smelling a …
GUWAHATI: Increasing levels of air pollution have been ringing alarm bells for long and now the city civic body is poised to prepare a draft action plan to bring it under control with the help of an international organisation. Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC)-in partnership with Clean Air Asia (CAA)-that aims …
After spending Rs 2.20 crore, MC Commissioner says buy bigger bins After spending a whopping Rs 2.20 crore on small-sized coloured bins for waste segregation, the local Municipal Corporation now says these were only “ceremonial” and people may buy new ones to start segregation. With the waste segregation project failing …
Salem: As the city gears up to celebrate Pongal, the Salem Municipal Corporation (SMC) on Thursday unveiled the plans to set up as many as 25 collection points in each of its four zones where residents can discard old things on the day of Bhogi, the first day of the …
NEW DELHI: A report by the municipal corporations of Delhi has confirmed that 10 people died because of dengue in the city hospitals last year. Malaria claimed five lives, taking the total number of fatalities caused by mosquito-borne diseases to 15. The report, released by South Delhi Municipal Corporation that …
Taking a small step towards creating a Smart City, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) is all set to gain and give information on real-time noise pollution, the ozone layer, oxygen concentration and sunlight. In the coming months, the civic body will introduce ultra-modern environment sensors and provide environmental data. Termed as …
A health report of the city revealed by the health department of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) states that in the first week of January, 205 water-borne cases were reported by AMC-run hospitals. The water-borne cases are likely to appear during the summer season, the number of cases which have been …
Tribunal asks Bareilly municipal corporation to provide details The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Bareilly Nagar Nigam to identify and acquire land for setting up municipal solid waste processing plants. A Bench headed by NGT acting chairperson U.D. Salvi said, “We direct the Bareilly Municipal Corporation to place …
NAVI MUMBAI: Panvel City Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has become an open defecation-free (ODF) city just 14 months after the formation of the civic body. The state team had declared it ODF in August last year. However, an independent validation team from the central government that visited the city recently as …
