Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in matter of Himangshu Nath Vs Central Pollution Control Board & Others dated 12/09/2022. An application on the worsening air quality affecting the city of Guwahati and the resultant health effects was filed before the NGT. The NGT said that …
Hospital employees in cahoots with scrap dealers making a mockery of biomedical waste handling rules More than a month after The Sentinel exposed how nearly 80 per cent of hospitals, diagnostic centres and laboratories in the State are flouting norms and disposing off potentially infectious waste in a haphazard, improper …
Guwahati, it seems, is stepping off on the wrong foot, in so far as industrialization is concerned. Captains of industries may fed those at the helm of affairs on environment with some predigested materials or information, but it is the duty of the persons on whom lies the onus of …
Care Assam has launched an endeavour, Affordable Waste Management Initiative (AWMI) as an attempt to find solutions to waste management in Guwahati. The core objective is to offer a waste management design to the city in the form of satellite plants which could be easily fabricated by local materials and …
The Guwahati Jal Board organised a public awareness meeting on the water supply projects being initiated by the State Government at Samannay Path in Sarumataria on July 13. The meeting was held in cooperation with the Samannay Unnayan Samiti, stated a press release. Officials said at the meet that the …
Encroachment from the Meghalaya side on the pristine Garbhanga Reserved Forest, upstream of the Basistha river, with the tacit support of the local administration of the neighbouring State, has been posing a serious threat to the existence of not only this Reserved Forest (RF), but also this capital city of …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Rohit Choudhury Vs. Union of India & Ors dated 01/07/2015 regarding shifting the West Boragaon landfill site used for dumping municipal solid waste (MSW) of Guwahati city. The petitioner Rohit Choudhury has said that the dumping …
GUWAHATI– The Kolkata-based Eastern Zone (EZ) Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on each of the Chief Secretary and Principal Secretary-cum-Additional Chief Secretary (Revenue) of the State for their failure to file an affidavit on the issue of an alternative site for …
Guwahati and Srinagar are the two Indian cities at highest risk of being devastated by an earthquake, with 36 other cities in areas prone to earthquakes, according to government data. Guwahati and Srinagar fall in what is called “very severe intensity zone”, or zone V, the highest-risk earthquake zone. Eight …
The Kolkata-based Eastern Zone Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has asked the Chief Secretary of the State to file an affidavit on the issue of the alternative site for dumping of the municipal solid waste (MSW) for the purpose of shifting the MSW dumping ground from the Deepor …
The city of Guwahati has a rich historical past and finds frequent mention in medieval historical sources and epics. From the pre-historic existence, the city has evolved through various stages of development and lately, the city has entered a phase of vigorous growth changing remarkably its fabric of settlement and …
Guwahati: In spite of the Guwahati Municipal Corporation's garbage-disposal initiatives, a study by a city NGO has revealed that the city generates 22,000 kilos of plastic waste every day. Environ, which conducted the study, said only 60% of the total plastic waste generated is recyclable. Environ's president Amarjyoti Kashyap said …
An initiative called ‘Mission Clean Brahmaputra’ was launched here today to keep the river clean for a better habitat of aquatic animals and for a greater benefit of the people. The Mission launched by Aaranyak, a society for nature conservation and a Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, would focus on …
The city has always been a poor performer in waste management and garbage disposal and the situation is getting worse by the day. Hoping to make a difference, a city-based NGO has come up with an innovative idea to decompose household garbage. Assam Pollution Control Board (APCB) has promised to …
Worldwide data for cancer survival are scarce. The researchers aimed to initiate worldwide surveillance of cancer survival by central analysis of population-based registry data, as a metric of the effectiveness of health systems, and to inform global policy on cancer control.
The Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC)'s initiative of collecting funds through NGOs for cleaning the Paltan Bazar area has not gone down well with the city's traders. The Paltan Bazar Traders Association (PTA) has called a strike on Wednesday. The disgruntled traders termed the move ' illegal' as they have been …
The Kolkata-based Eastern Zone Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) today restrained the Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) and the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) ‘from causing any violation in respect of the Municipal Solid Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2000 and Wetland (Conservation and Management) Rules, 2010 in respect …
With the recovery of four more bodies today, the death toll mounted to 36 in Assam floods that affected about 10 lakh people in 13 districts and rendered majority of them homeless, reports PTI. Two more deaths were reported from Krishnai and Kukurkata areas of the worst-hit Goalpara district, while …
Kamrup (Metro) Deputy Commissioner M Angamuthu is among the recipients of a notice that seeks all establishments situated between Khanapara and Bharalu to inform the administration within a month if they have parking provisions or not. This information, according to the deputy commissioner, will just be the precursor of an …
It’s a wake–up call for the people of Guwahati. High fluoride contamination in water has been detected in some parts of the city, raising health concerns among residents, especially those in the high risk zones like Bonda and Lal Ganesh. Dr Mahidhar Pathak of EREC India Research Laboratory said tests …
New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal’s eastern zone bench has issued a notice to the Meghalaya government over a Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on air, water and environmental pollution in the state. Gauhati High Court had in 2012 taken suo moto action on the CAG report which had …
