Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Residents Welfare Association Savita Vihar Vs Irrigation & Flood Control Department & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant raised the grievance against throwing of construction debris and sewage obstruction in the Ghazipur drain. According to the applicant this drain flows behind …
THE people of the Narmada valley will have to wait for some more time for justice Their case at the Supreme Court has been pending for three decades. Besides, Gujarat chief minister Keshubhai Patel has successfully convinced Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee that the World Commission on Dam's scheduled visit …
THE Supreme Court has given short shrift to the Sahib Singh government of Delhi. After the court had ordered the phasing out of 15-year-old commercial vehicles, the Delhi government had requested the court to give it more time. But the real reason was not that the government could not implement …
CHASTISED by the recent Supreme Court ruling on the enforcement of a ban on 15-year old commercial vehicles by October 2, 1998, the Delhi government has come up with a draft proposal on a financial package for these vehicle owners to meet the cost of replacing their old vehicles. Rajendra …
The financial package at a glance: • The financial incentive will be in the form of interest subsidy on loan which will cover 75 per cent of the cost of the new vehicle. • Loan to be repaid in monthly instalment over four years at four per cent interest. • …
THE primary concern noted in the Delhi Master Plan (DMP) 2001, revised and published in January, 1998, is that Delhi has been growing too fast. This rapid growth is attributed to the high rate of migration from surrounding states. The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) argues for a restrictive policy to …
The Delhi high court has issued notices to the Central Pollution Control Board, Municipal Corporation of Delhi, Delhi Development Authority and the Police Commissioner in a petition regarding pollution caused by burning of human hair by hair traders in Jwalapuri, west Delhi. A division bench comprising justice Y K Sabharwal …
STOCKHOLM. Delhi. Two cities. But two very different cultures. One clean. And the other dirty as hell. And the difference is not just in the physical condition. It is also in the mind-set. One doesn't want to live in dirt and filth. And the other just wallows in it. Since …
The recontmendations of a high-level committee for containing vehicular pollution in Delhi have been approved by the Supreme Court. The apex court has warned the authorities to strictly adhere to the tune limits set by the panel. The committee, in its action taken report, had said that by April 2001 …
But for a timely court order, 500 birds which were illegally captured would have been sold in Delhi on August 7. Following a tip-off, an eight-member team of the forest and wildlife department of the Delhi government raided a house in east Delhi and recovered the birds kept in six …
"DRINK only the Delhi }al Board water," advise the numerous advertisements brought out by the Delhi government. Not really. Even the treated water coming through supply pipes is contaminated and unfit for drinking, according to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). An affidavit filed in the Delhi high court has …
The Supreme Court (SC) has banned plying of all 15-year-old motor commercial vehicles including buses, taxis and auto-rickshaws in the National Capital Territory (NCR) from October 2 this year. The SC has expressed concern and distress at the apathy of the authorities concerned in implementing various directions issued by it …
THE Delhi administration has decided to relocate 80,000 industrial units that were closed down for functioning in non-conforming areas following a 1996 Supreme Court order. The new site in west Delhi is to be developed on more than 1,820 hectares of land. So far, 51,000 units have applied for relocation. …
TOXIC fumes from a well claimed five lives at Dichaun Kalan village in west Delhi on July 11. The first casualty was a villager who climbed down the well to install a pump in an attempt to solve the village's water shortage. The other four died one by one, trying …
The Supreme Court has sought suggestion to improve the supply of power to the public hospitals in the Capital immediately. In this regard, it has directed the secretary or additional secretary of the Union ministry of power to convene a meeting of the concerned officers of the National Thermal Power …
vehicular emissions account for two-thirds of the total pollution in Delhi. A study conducted by the Central Road Research Institute shows that vehicles generate 64 per cent of the total pollution loads while 16 per cent is generated by thermal power plants, 12 per cent by industries and seven per …
the mandarins may just as well go on discussing air pollution control strategies forever without any effect on urban air quality. The basic flaw with the nebulous air quality planning exercise in India is that the regulators neither have a sense of urgency nor a clear, sharp focus to develop …
PEOPLE in India have by and large been ignorant of pollution and have remained unconcerned about environmental issues. But the problems of pollution forced residents of Delhi to look up and ask whether pollution in the city has been affecting their health? The answer they received recently was strange, to …
Scenes like these are common in Delhi. With no water for days on end, people have to fight for every drop of water. To make matters worse, they have to shell out up to Rs 3,000 per month (Rs 75 for 500 litres of water). More often than not, it …
