Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Laxmi Narain Vs Municipal Corporation, Ghaziabad & Others dated 11/11/2024. The complaint of the applicant is that illegal secondary collection point has been setup near Apsara border of Ghaziabad adjoining Delhi on GT road at District Ghaziabad. The allegation in …
Commissioners ticked off for seeking an exemption The Delhi High Court on Wednesday questioned the efficacy of the steps taken by the civic bodies to ensure cleanliness, given the rising cases of vector-borne diseases like malaria in the Capital. “Dengue, chikungunya and malaria are on the rise. What is the …
NEW DELHI: A panel of experts set up by Delhi high court to look into the problem of solid waste management in the city has recommended change in the bylaws to include heavy fines for littering and compulsory segregation of waste in every household. In a proposal submitted in HC …
GURUGRAM: Environmentalists and members of the civil society have declared their opposition to the state government's decision of installing a waste-to-energy plant in Bandhwari, saying the model is unsuited to Indian cities. According to environmentalists, the system's major drawback is that it is a centralised one, which discourages the practice …
Underscoring the importance of public participation and creating awareness in the face of “little being done by the corporations,” the bench said a nodal agency is required to solve the issue. “The culture of not doing duty should end,” the Delhi High Court said on Wednesday while directing civic bodies …
The farmers are in trouble because the glut means that the value of the crop has gone down It took the tragic death of six farmers in Madhya Pradesh for the national media to report on the deep-rooted agricultural crisis. The farmers who were killed in police firing during protests …
We need to clarify the rules for legal slaughterhouses and make sure that these can be enforced When I wrote about vegetarianism, or, more precisely, why I as an Indian environmentalist would not advocate it, I had expected an emotional response. My article was meant to provoke a discussion. I …
Environmentalists on Thursday lambasted ambitious plans to bring much needed water to remote central India by linking two rivers, in the latest clash over dwindling water resources. The Ken-Betwa project was approved by the Forest Advisory Committee on Wednesday but without any of the changes sought by environmentalists, such as …
Pune: It is a faulty survey system and methodology that makes Pune one of the top cleanest city in India on paper, experts have said. To drive home their point, they drew attention to the ground reality where the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has not been able to resolve the …
Urban India is now the world's third largest garbage generator. But the amount of waste generated is not as much of an issue as the fact that over 45 million tonnes (or 3 million trucks worth) of garbage is untreated and disposed of by municipal authorities each year in an …
Corporations working towards solid waste management policy Lt Governor Anil Baijal today approved an action plan to convert entire municipal solid waste generated in Delhi to energy or recycled products, a move aimed at curbing pollution in the city. The L-G held a review meet on the levels of pollution …
Fact is that BS-IV vehicles, particularly diesel trucks, are much less polluting than BS-III ones Why this huge fuss? I am talking about the automobile manufacturers’ insistence that great injustice has been done to them because they have been asked to move to Bharat Stage-IV (BS-IV) technologies for emission control …
Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal on Tuesday chaired a high level meeting on controlling air pollution in the capital. The meeting saw discussions on the amendment of the Central Motor Vehicle (CMV) rules to introduce a policy for scrapping seized vehicles that are more than 15 years old. It was in …
Renowned environmentalist Sunita Narain today flayed the CPI(M)-led LDF government's decision to implement a hydro-power project at ecologically fragile Athirappilly in Thrissur district of Kerala. "I will not only say it is ecologically bad, but I think, economically also it is a very stupid project," she told reporters here. Narain, …
According to 2017 Global Burden of Disease report, India has the second highest number of early deaths due to PM 2.5 in the world. New Delhi: The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said that action on air pollution in recent months by both Supreme Court and the Delhi government …
Environmentalist Sunita Narain today criticised Environment Minister Anil Dave for trashing a report which said that air pollution causes more premature deaths in India than in China. In a Facebook Live session, Narain, the chief executive of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), said air pollution was a national crisis …
NEW DELHI: Lieutenant governor Anil Baijal on Tuesday in a meeting on controlling air pollution in the capital discussed the amendment of the Central Motor Vehicle (CMV) rules to introduce a policy for scrapping seized vehicles that are more than 15 years old. The LG also suggested that all construction …
As Delhi continues to battle 'very poor' air quality, the Supreme Court-empowered EPCA today asked the Delhi government to ensure that the Badarpur thermal power plant, a major source of air pollution in the city, continues to remain shut. Last November, the government had issued directions under section 31 A …
Environmentalist and member of the Supreme Court-appointed Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority, Sunita Narain, insists that odd-even is not a way of life. The scheme is a stringent measure which may be taken under emergency situation to check air pollution but the EPCA should work not to allow such …
Concerned over the deteriorating air quality in Delhi and the National Capital Region, the Environment Ministry has amended laws and formally tasked a Supreme Court-appointed panel with implementing a graded action plan for pollution control. The comprehensive plan, prepared by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), focussing on Delhi was …
This includes the imposition of the odd-even policy if PM 2.5 crosses 300 micrograms per cubic metre (µg/m3) or PM 10 crosses the 500 mark. MORE THAN a month after it was cleared by the Supreme Court, the Environment Ministry has notified the action plan to implement a ‘graded response’ …
