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 …
New Delhi: On Tuesday, the transport department started the year’s first pollution checking drive as part of its World Environment Day initiative. With the drive reduced to an annual affair — the last one was in July 2011 — driving in Delhi without a pollution under control (PUC) certificate carries …
New Delhi: The Delhi government finally seems to be waking up to the threat of environment pollution from the expanding private vehicle pool in the city. Based on an EPCA (environment pollution control authority) recommendation, the transport department is putting together a proposal for mandatory fitness checks of all private …
Jammu: The state has around nine lakh registered vehicles and just 94 pollution checking centres. To add to the problem, a number of these centres are non-functional due to poor monitoring by the transport department and lack of a “proper system” to track down vehicles with high emission levels. Out …
Night pollution a major contributor. KOLKATA, 5 APRIL: There is a piece of bad news for those Kolkatans who are non-smokers and turn over in their sleep assured in the knowledge that they will never end up like the hero of a novel who shoots himself after finding he is …
Do you know how a number of auto-rickshaws, motorcycles, scooters and cars emitting too much smoke are issued pollution under control(PUC) certificates? Those who man such centres are okay giving these certificates as long as you pay them the money. According to a reply received in response to an RTI …
The ongoing anti-pollution drive of Chandigarh Police has started to yield results as a large number of individuals, who were issued notices, have got their Pollution Under Control (PUC) certificates for their vehicles. The Traffic Police have no intention of letting up on the campaign and vehicles owners will continue …
While you could be booked for bursting crackers in a silence zone, you could zip through the same area with your vehicle roaring at 90 decibel. Reason: It is mandatory for all vehicles in the country to keep gas emission below limit, but there is no law to check noise …
New Delhi: If you drive on Delhi roads, better keep your pollution-under-contro (PUC) certificate handy. The transport department of Delhi government has intensified its drive against polluting vehicles, which was launched a fortnight ago. Over 8,000 vehicles have been challaned for not having a valid PUC and the department has …
While the number of auto rickshaws is increasing in the city, the State Transport Authority appears to be busy in maintaining its figures, pertaining to checking pollution caused by the autorickshaws, mainly the ones that run on diesel. The STA challaned 666 autorickshaws, in 2010, for violating pollution norms. This …
The pollution control board on Friday issued a set of guidelines for election campaigners but major political parties do not seem to attach much importance to them. The guidelines, which will soon be sent to all political parties, are related to the use of microphones, vehicles and generators during the …
CHENNAI: The rapid growth in the number of automobiles in the city has turned the focus on the need for the authorities to take stringent measures to contain air and noise pollution. The number of motor vehicles has been steadily growing over the past 12 years, according to the Transport …
Megha Suri Singh & Neha Lalchandani | TNNNew Delhi: The pressure to contain air pollution levels in the city before the Commonwealth Games seems to have sent the government into a tizzy with the transport department going on an overdrive to prosecute vehicles without valid Pollution Under Control (PUC) certificates. …
KOLKATA, 18 May: The state pollution control board has given closure notices to 11 pollution under control certificate issuance centres (PUC) in and around Kolkata, as they
Bangladesh is far behind in taking Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects under the Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emission. Statistics show that out of 1,800 CDM projects approved by the CDM Executive Board of the United Nations, only two projects of Bangladesh have got the approval. On the …
An RTI query has finally got the Delhi Police cracking. In a bid to prepare a response to an RTI petition, the Delhi Police has now made it mandatory for its personnel to show updated pollution certificates every time they get their government vehicles refilled. Delhi Police sources have said …
