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 …
To strengthen the involvement of school children and the education department in prevention of vector-borne diseases such as dengue and chikungunya, a meeting was convened between the Municipal Corporation of Delhi's Medical Relief and Public Health Committee and its Education Committee this past week. The issues discussed at the meeting …
Violators may lose trade license, says Udupi CMC commissioner Udupi: The ban order on plastic below 40 microns has received positive response from the traders and the vendors. The ban order will be strictly implemented from August 1 within the city limits. Udupi City Municipal Corporation has taken all measurers …
Calcutta, July 31: The Centre has stopped giving the Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC) funds under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission because of its refusal to levy water tax and inability to bring almost half the houses in the city under the property tax net. Delhi has not issued …
While the outcomes of the Lok Sabha and the state assembly elections have been well documented and analysed, little is known about the electoral geography in urban areas. In discussing the conflicting interests of local politics and urban development, this article places the definition and understanding of what is “urban” …
AHMEDABAD: A team of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) health officials raided shops of wholesale dealers of plastic bags near Kalupur market on Thursday and seized three tonnes of plastic bags banned under central regulations. The defaulters were also fined Rs 60,000 for the stock, and one of the shops was …
CHENNAI: Garbage should be processed using new age technology in a shorter space, Municipal Administration and Rural Development Minister, KP Munusamy, told the officials after inspecting the Perungudi dumping ground on Wednesday. Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has ordered ministers and officials to improve sanitation in the state. Hence, a review …
AIADMK councillors stage a walkout “condemning” the corporation's “inept attitude” As India Cements Limited, which was helping the municipal corporation by taking a portion of the plastic garbage generated in the urban local body as a supplementary fuel in its kiln, has stopped taking the waste for the past two …
After potholes, there is now a new menace to face on city roads. With underground pipelines resulting in rapid soil erosion below the roads, cave-ins have become increasingly frequent. On Thursday, at Shrawan Yeshwant Chowk in Kalachowki, Cotton Green, a cavity developed early in the morning, signaling the start of …
AHMEDABAD: The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has cracked down on polythene bag users, but it has not yet regulated it. The guidelines by Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has clearly outlined the role of the local civic body. The guidelines mention that polythene bags below 40 microns should be completely …
The Energy and Resource Institute (Teri), the reputed environment institute, has failed to determine the carbon footprint of the city. The municipal administration has issued a notice to the institute to submit its report within two months, said additional municipal commissioner, Naresh Zurmure on Tuesday. He was speaking to reporters …
Increasing population, mainly due to migration, is putting significant strain on the civic amenities in the city and adversely affecting the environment of Pune. Additional municipal commissioner Naresh Zurmure, who prepared the Environment Status Report (ESR) of Pune for 2010-11, was speaking to reporters after presenting it before the Pune …
The state Cabinet, which met under the chairmanship of Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Wednesday, decided to amend its Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policy-2010. It was decided to fix the floor rate of Rs 25 lakh per acre for area situated within the final development plan of Faridabad-Ballabhgarh Controlled …
KOLKATA, 26 JULY: The railways’ engineering public sector undertaking (PSU), RITES, is set to push new boundaries with Kolkata's Hooghly riverfront development project. The pilot project, which is slated to be kicked off by chief minister Miss Mamata Banerjee on 2 August, will use hot-rolled steel sheet piling technology to …
New Delhi: Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked the New Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) to inform it about the number of cars that are parked on an average in Khan Market area and what the capacity of the parking area. HC gave time till Thursday to NDMC to apprise it …
AHMEDABAD: In the next three months, a small army of workers in uniforms will be spending the nights cleaning Ahmedabad's streets. But before you witness this 'Surat phenomenon', the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) is trying to solve the problem of collecting garbage from the bins. For a long time, the …
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has said that breeding of mosquitoes has increased in the Capital due to the rains. Pools of stagnating water — which are conducive for the proliferation of mosquitoes — have been witnessed at many places, including the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus and IIT-Delhi, it …
MCD commissioner K.S. Mehra personally appeared in the Delhi high court on Thursday following the summons issued by it on the issue of the civic agency’s alleged failure in preventing sewer water entering the zoo area and contaminating its water body during monsoon. Taking a serious view of the issue, …
GURGAON: The pollution control board of Haryana has issued show-cause notices to the municipal corporation of Gurgaon (MCG), HUDA and HSIIDC, along with 30 other city-based industrial units, for having failed the board's routine pollution check. The effluent samples taken from sewage treatment plants (STPs) maintained by HUDA and MCG, …
New Delhi: The authorities have drawn up a plan to allow one-lane parking along Yusuf Sarai market on Aurobindo Marg. But the decision, according to PWD sources, may lead to more chaos in the area. At a recent meeting of the Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) with other stakeholders, members …
