Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton Canal nearly choked due to garbage dumping appearing in the DT Next dated 11.05.2025". The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton …
Our craze for diesel vehicles, especially in case of public transport, construction activities and unregulated fumes emanating from smouldering garbage sites and industrial clusters surrounding Gujarat cities is turning our air foul. With increasing concentration of particulate matter of size--2.5 (PM2.5) microns to (PM10) microns-- in size remaining suspended in …
Vadodara: The Vishwamitri Riverfront Development Project (VRDP) initiated by the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) has once again come under the scanner. A bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT), Pune has issued notice to the VMC, district collector, Vadodara Urban Development Authority (VUDA), state government and Union ministry of forest and …
Vadodara: Those planning late night revelry during this marriage season may be in for a surprise. The city police have launched a major drive to rein in music system suppliers and DJs who play music beyond the 10pm deadline. City police on Saturday booked 17 DJ music system operators and …
Ahmedabad: Most parts of Gujarat continued to face hot and humid weather on Wednesday. Such climatic condition is likely to prevail over the state for the next one week, as per India Meteorological Department. According to the IMD website, the state will continue to witness the heat wave like condition …
VADODARA: While the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) won wide accolades for its e-waste collection programme, it seems a long way before the problem can be resolved. According to the data available with city based Society for Clean Environment (SOCLEEN) the VMC network has been available to collect only 2.75 metric …
AHMEDABAD: Once again, Gujarat has led from the front when it comes to promoting roof-top solar power generation projects. The state leads in the country with 9.75 MW roof-top solar power generation. Gujarat accounted for 23.64 per cent of the total 41.24 MW roof-top solar power generated in the country …
SURAT: Cases of the deadly swine flu continues to surge in south Gujarat with seven more people testing positive for the virus since Saturday. Since January 1, the H1N1 virus, has already claimed five lives in the region. In all, 23 people have tested positive of which 18 are from …
Going back to being the city of banyan trees might help Vadodara counter the rising air pollution levels in the city. According to a study conducted by the department of botany at M S University's Faculty of Science, planned plantation in the city can decrease the air pollution by almost …
The Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) is looking to arrange for door-to-door collection of kitchen waste from restaurants and other places in the city. The formula adopted by Ahmedbad Municipal Corporation (AMC) will be used for the system. AMC had last year adopted a system of appointing agencies which collected kitchen …
Among the three major cities of Gujarat — Ahmedabad, Rajkot and Vadodara — Ahmedabad is leading by a huge margin in terms of having maximum number of children suffering from malnutrition. As per the government records till May this year, the number of malnourished children in the city is 43,820. …
Uncertainty over the fate of the 20 town planning (TP) schemes, which Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) had failed to come up with in the prescribed time limit has now ended. The civic body will hold a consultation over four of the remaining 20 TP schemes on Thursday. VMC had last …
To prove that it is serious about implementing its poll promise of affordable urban housing, Gujarat government plans to start construction of around 75,000 houses by its para institutions across the state before the forthcoming Lok Sabha (LS) polls. "We are actually eyeing beginning the construction of one lakh houses, …
Project Will Be Scaled Up After Its Success At Kamatibaug Vadodara: Paris and Barcelona have done it. And so has New York and Boston. Now, Vadodara will be the first city of Gujarat to get a chance to use cycle as a mode of public transport. Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) …
Judgement of the High Court of Gujarat on encroachment caused by the vegetable and fruit vendors on 18 meters road near Gorva Talavadi in the area of Baroda under the control of the Baroda Municipal Corporation dated 14/10/2013 in the matter of Hiren Jashbhai Patel Vs Baroda Municipal Corporation. Original …
Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has issued notices to eight municipal corporations and 159 municipalities for not following guidelines on solid waste disposal. The corporations given notices are Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Junagadh, Jamnagar and Gandhinagar. It has threatened to take strict action under the Environment Protection Act 1986 …
Almost one-fifth of the centrally-funded sewage treatment plants in the country are “non-operational”, leading to millions of litres of untreated water either seeping into the ground as potential pollutant of ground water or being discharged into natural drainage systems and rivers every day. Besides, performance of another nearly one-fifth of …
Mulls a policy to attract manufacturers in solar power sector. Gujarat government on Monday said that it plans to install about 60 Mw solar power generation capacity in the next three years through roof-top units on houses. It further said it was mulling a policy to attract manufacturers in solar …
Vadodara: A young engineer from the city has developed first of its kind cycle that runs on solar power and also works as electric bike. With small solar panels installed on a normal cycle, this solar cycle is a zero energy model. After receiving success from its first working model, …
Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) has set up an oxygen factory on Sun Pharma Road in the city. The factory, however, is no industrial plant, but a plantation of trees – including the banyan tree after which the city is named – that generate high amounts of oxygen. In the first …
India is about to breach the $2 trillion GDP mark, as it works its way through the lower end of the middle-income-nation spectrum. We have yet to recognise that the economic output of a large state like Maharashtra is now as large as the entire Indian economy in the early …
