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 …
The Haryana Government has prepared City Development Plans (CDPs) for 73 towns of the State to plug loopholes in basic infrastructure like roads, drains, water supply and sewerage. Stating this here on Sunday, an official spokesman said that under the CDPs, Rs.1695.01 crore has been earmarked for urban local bodies …
JAMMU, Minister for Revenue, Relief and Rehabilitation, Raman Bhalla, today said Government is launching several reformative measures to better living standards of urban slum population of the State. This was stated by the Minister while interacting with locals after assessing the development related problems of the residents of Kaccha Talab …
MUMBAI: Every year, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) gets into an overdrive to ensure the city's clogged drains are cleared before the monsoon. An inadvertent delay in inviting a Rs 107-crore tender, though, has meant that work this year, too, has fallen behind schedule. There are fears that the city's …
New Delhi: The blanket ban on metallic and plastic pouches for pan masala and gutkha since March 1 seems to be having no effect on the sales figures. In fact, retailers are raking in the moolah by charging more than the printed price without using paper pouches, and buyers are …
The sanitation workers of MCD, who do not have their own dwelling spaces in the city, will be allotted houses at concessional rates under Dr Ambedkar Housing Scheme. The scheme was launched here on Thursday to mark Dr Ambedkar Jayanti. The process of allotting houses to at least 254 sanitation …
Animal rights organisation PETA has written a letter to the city civic body seeking permission to put up advertisements on garbage trucks saying 'Meat Trashes the Planet.' In the letter to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation municipal commissioner Subodh Kumar, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has sought permission to …
Rs56,701 for one square foot of land in Kharadi? If this sounds unbelievable, this is precisely what the land and estate department of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) said in reply to a Right to Information (RTI) application on April 5, 2011. Pune-based river activist, Sarang Yadwadkar, in his RTI …
AHMEDABAD: The green quotient of your surroundings might grow. The forest department, which is conducting a tree census in various cities of Gujarat, is all set to form a policy to decide the minimum number of trees in the cities corresponding to the levels of pollution. Social forestry department officials …
With the three existing landfill sites oversaturated, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is going to make its Narela-Bawana landfill site operational from next month. This is the first scientific landfill site in the city where close to 1,300 metric tonnes of solid waste will be segregated and processed to …
Roads in various parts of the city would soon be cleaned using mechanical sweepers. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi's Standing Committee meeting on Monday cleared the proposal after a long delay of three years. MCD Standing Committee chairman Yogender Chandolia said:
The Municipal Mazdoor Union has alleged that in the last five years, 60 employees of the BMC-run Sewri TB hospital have suffered from tuberculosis. Of these, 32 have allegedly died and 28 are taking treatment. After repeated agitation and protests to get the government to implement their long-pending demand of …
The MCD has made it mandatory for all 33 sentinel surveillance hospitals to report all dengue and chikungunya cases online to do away with the problem of under-reporting of cases. The nodal officers of the hospitals have been trained to report the cases online, said an MCD official. All the …
More than five water projects aimed to quench the thirst of Mumbai and its rapidly growing metropolitan region are facing opposition from locals. Their demand is to first provide water to the locals and the tribal population and then go ahead with the project. The projects that are facing opposition …
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) will soon employ mechanical sweepers for Delhi roads, a job that is being done manually at present. All roads measuring 60 feet and above will be cleaned using such sweepers. The civic body will thus be cleaning up more than 900 km of roads …
MUMBAI: Senior Congress leader Baba Siddique on Tuesday urged chief minister Prithviraj Chavan to set up a high-level special investigation team to probe into a Rs 10,000 crore municipal solid waste scam involving politicians and civic officials. "It's a fraud on the public exchequer. The manner in which the Brihanmumbai …
The Education Committee of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has urged the Delhi government to renew its efforts for providing clean drinking water to MCD schools, 35 of which have no water supply at present. Mahendra Nagpal, chairman of the Education Committee, has written a letter to Chief Minister …
*MC yet to recover Rs 7 cr from villages and colonies; Rs 5 cr from govt depts. The Municipal Corporation (MC) is yet to recover pending water bills amounting to around Rs 12 crore. These include around Rs 7 crore from villages and colonies and more than Rs 5 crore …
BHUBANESWAR: In what could be called a rare honour for the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC), the urban local body has been chosen for the prestigious UN Sasakawa Award 2011 for disaster risk reduction initiatives. Mayor Ananat Narayan Jena, who received the communication from the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction …
