Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
AHMEDABAD: It's a question of how many of the 15,000 students coming to Gujarat University daily will take BRTS bus. According to the phase II of BRTS plan, the route after passing through the Nehrunagar, will not go up to University bus stand but will take an impromptu right turn …
AHMEDABAD: Bureaucratic red tape resulted in 100 children suffering from typhoid and one succumbing to it. Outbreak of typhoid was caused by contamination of water and lack of proper sanitation facilities at three villages in Bavla. It all began with complaints of the villagers about leaking pipelines and requests for …
Ahmedabad: Bureaucratic red tape resulted in 100 children suffering from typhoid and one succumbing to it. Outbreak of typhoid was caused by contamination of water and lack of proper sanitation facilities at three villages in Bavla. It all began with complaints of the villagers about leaking pipelines and requests for …
Ahmedabad: It's a ticking time bomb. After water contamination triggered a typhoid outbreak in three villages of Bavla taluka of Ahmedabad district, it could well be the turn of 65 more in Sanand taluka alone. "Of the villages we visited in Sanand taluka recently, about 65 have no proper sanitation …
AHMEDABAD: Hepatitis-B scare that swept city followed by anomalies in disposal of biomedical waste (BMW) seem to have finally prompted Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) to plan its own BMW disposal site in a public-private partnership (PPP). Recently, raids by AMC and Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) revealed a deadly industry …
AHMEDABAD: For many years now, owing to high cost of toxic waste treatment, hundreds of chemical industries surrounding city have been discharging their toxic waste illegally into city drainage system in areas like Vatva, Naroda, Odhav and Narol. Ideally these units should be sending their discharge to central effluent treatment …
AHMEDABAD: High level of contamination in form of e-coli bacterium was found in the samples from units bottling water and licensed by Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) to use the ISI mark. Of the 23 samples tested by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) after a TOI expose, three brands tested positive …
AHMEDABAD: Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) served closure notices to at least three major companies selling bottled water in residential and commercial neighbourhoods in the city after they failed tests for purity. These companies held licences issued by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). AMC has asked BIS to cancel their …
Ahmedabad : Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) sealed five units in city on Monday after investigation reports proved that they were using biomedical waste for packaging food items and medicines. Most of them were bottling units. Sealed units include Gujarat Pharma Laboratory, Ketlik Pharma, Shri Madh traders, Gujarat Remedies and …
Ahmedabad : Hepatitis-B outbreak that crept silently upon unsuspecting victims has claimed more lives than the Surat plague which drew global attention and saw not less than five lakh people fleeing the city in panic! Final toll of hepatitis-B that startled health authorities by claiming quick victims stood at 59 …
Ahmedabad : Who is responsible and accountable to the unsuspecting consumers being fooled by racketeers who are peddling illegally ISI marked packaged drinking water'? Is it Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) who issues ISI license for packaged drinking water plants if they comply with the prescribed standards. Or is it …
Ahmedabad: The deadly hepatitis-B virus claimed its 58th victim in Meghraj taluka in Sabarkantha on Monday A harried health department has now concentrated its surveillance in Idar taluka as fresh cases have been traced to this area. With this 53 fresh cases have been reported in the last few days, …
Action After TOI Expose On Bottled Water Scam Team TOI Ahmedabad: Several agencies swung into action on Monday after the TOI expose on the bottled water racket and how it posed a health risk on the users. Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), which raided one such illegal bottling plant in …
Rajiv Shah | TNN Gandhinagar: In a decision with far-reaching political implications, the Gujarat government has suddenly doubled the release of water from the Narmada dam into the 458-kilometres-long main canal, starting at Kevadia Colony and ending at Rajasthan. Sachivalaya sources said if till now the canal was receiving a …
AHMEDABAD: In its continuing drive against hospitals not following waste disposal norms, Gujarat Pollution Control Board served notice to VHP international general secretary Praveen Togadia
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has gathered first visible evidence against four pharma and packaging firms in Narol and Isanpur whose names figured in the list of 26 firms recycling medical waste. A raiding team found boxes containing used medicine bottles with their cartons that were supplied by a …
Ahmedabad : The Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has finally got into action and plans to fix responsibility and accountability of illegal recycling of hospital waste on the point of generation of the waste the Doctor's clinic. Now, the common biomedical waste treatment (CBWT) agencies will have to inform GPCB …
Ahmedabad : The automated fare collection (AFC) system in Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) in city has run into a legal wrangle with Kaizen Automation Pvt Ltd (Kaizen) contesting the contract signed by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) for intelligent traffic system (ITS) in BRTS buses. Recently, AMC signed a contract …
Ahmedabad: More than 100 kg biomedical waste containing, needles, syringes, blood bags, vials and other waste was found abandoned in a secluded mill land opposite Chamunda crematorium in Potaliya in Saherkotda on Tuesday. This was after the intensive drive conducted by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) on the illegal trade of …
Ahmedabad : A paralysing link in the so-called foolproof bio-medical waste disposal system' of state is an innocent rule which mandates that those healthcare units that treat 1,000 patients and less in a month are not required to be registered with Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB). This rule has played …
