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 …
GURUGRAM: MCG has roped in a team from IIT-Roorkee to draw up a water conservation plan for the city, which has seen a 82% drop in its groundwater level in the past 10 years. The IIT-R team, which will be headed by two hydrology professors, will largely focus on rainwater …
Lt. Col. Sarvadaman Singh Oberoi Vs. Union of India & Others dated 20/07/2018. This application was filed on 14th August, 2015 mainly to restore Ghata Lake in Gurgaon District. Further, directions were sought to restore 214 other water bodies and natural channels in Gurgaon District and similar water bodies in …
GURUGRAM: Environmental activists have suspected it for long, but now, they can place actual figures against their suspicion. The quality of Gurugram’s groundwater is deteriorating with each passing year, in what should be a major concern for public health, according to data for three financial years — 2015-16, 2016-17 and …
GURUGRAM: The door-to-door verification of people eligible for Ayushman Bharat Scheme or Modicare, a health protection programme, started in the urban areas of the city on Monday. The state’s nodal officer for the scheme formally kicked off the process on Sunday as camps for self-verification were held in 35 MCG …
GURUGRAM: The district forest department has asked the animal husbandry department to carry out an inspection of all poultry farms in Gurugram, following an outbreak of Virulent Newcastle Disease (VND) among peacocks in the city. “The district forest officer has written to the deputy director, animal husbandry and dairying, Haryana, …
GURUGRAM: You would normally associate the undulating belt of Aravali hills that lies between Golf Course Road and Gurugram-Faridabad Road with luxury housing societies that dot its perimeter. So, the findings of a recent survey by the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) were both a cause for celebration and anxiety …
GURUGRAM: Over 200 trees were allegedly felled in and around Mangar buffer zone of the Aravalis on the border of Gurugram and Faridabad in violation of environmental norms in last two days. On Tuesday, a TOI team visited the spot, where around four acres has already been cleared. While nearly …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Delhi Bird Foundation Vs. Union of India & Others dated 18/05/2018 regarding the on-going construction of the C&D Plant and dumping of recyclable waste at Basai Wetland, Gurugram, Haryana. NGT orders the matter to be heard on priority and has …
Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Rameshwar & Others Vs State of Haryana & Others dated 12/03/2018 regarding land acquisition of 912 acres from three villages namely, Manesar, Lakhnoula and Naurangpur, Tehsil and District Gurgaon for setting up Chaudhari Devi Lal Industrial Township, to be …
GURUGRAM: The health department has vaccinated 3,500 children in the entire district under the Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI) drive, thus achieving a target of 100 per cent. Under this drive, children are vaccinated against preventable diseases such as TB, Polio, Diphtheria, Whooping Cough ect. During the four months campaign that …
GURGAON: Even after imposing penalty on an offender for felling 63 trees and seizing a truck that was being used to dump construction and demolition waste on a one-and-a-half acre plot near Ghata-Gwalpahari along the Gurgaon-Faridabad road in December, an incident of dumping of waste was again reported from the …
GURUGRAM: Gurgaon has lost as many as 389 water bodies in the past 60 years, a study has revealed. The study report, compiled by the district administration, has been submitted in the National Green Tribunal (NGT). While the NGT on Monday directed the Haryana government to protect all existing water …
The Mangar village, located just 25 km from the Cyber City in the Aravallis, have named this patch Mangar Bani Not far from the choking pollution of Delhi and an increasingly urbanised Gurugram exists a village that has managed to preserve a 1,200-acre green patch, owing to their religious faith. …
Gurgaon: The Environmental Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) on Wednesday lashed out at NHAI for not following construction norms at the ongoing flyover-underpass project sites along NH-8, while giving directives to other departments concerned to implement preventive measures at the earliest to check air pollution before and after Diwali. The EPCA …
GURUGRAM: The city's groundwater quality has severely deteriorated over the past year. A response to a right to information (RTI) query from the Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA) has revealed that levels of elements like fluoride and chloride have increased steeply as have salinity levels. While the content of chloride …
GURUGRAM: In an attempt to encourage people to switch to solar power, the Gurgaon district administration is organising a 'Solar Mela' on August 12 and 13. The organisers told TOI that all stakeholders, including solar equipment manufacturers, residents and bankers — who will provide finance to consumers who are willing …
517 people have died of swine flu in Delhi As many as 166 fresh cases of swine flu have been reported from Delhi taking the total number of confirmed cases of the virus to 517. The figures are till July 30. The deadly virus has claimed a total of four …
GURUGRAM: The state government on Thursday asked the MCG to create a special cell for monitoring garbage burning and management of construction and demolition (C&D;) waste in the city. "MCG should create a cell for monitoring garbage burning and C&D; waste management activities. Big construction sites can be sealed under …
It will have serious economic, environmental and social implications, they claim The proposal to set up a waste-to-energy plant in Bandhwari village here has come under sharp criticism, with activists arguing that the project will have serious economic, environmental and social implications. The civic bodies of Gurugram and Faridabad had …
GURUGRAM: A three-day long intensified pulse polio immunisation drive was launched in the district on Sunday, under which 3,34,065 children are expected to be vaccinated. The immunization day will be conducted in 13 districts of Haryana, including Gurgaon. Chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar kick-started the drive at Gurgaon. The drive …
