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 …
In the wake of reports that the local administration has identified a new 92-acre landfill site in the Aravali foothill area, several environmentalists, waste management activists and concerned citizens have come together to oppose the move. Spearheading the movement, Ruchika Sethi, who runs ‘Why Waste Your Waste’ campaign, said: “We …
In the wake of reports that the local administration has identified a new 92-acre landfill site in the Aravalli foothill area, several environmentalists, waste management activists and concerned citizens have come together to oppose the move. Spearheading the movement, Ruchika Sethi, who runs ‘Why Waste Your Waste’ campaign, said: “We …
As Gurgaon expands, so does its population. And more people means more generation of waste. Recently, the MCG identified a 92-acre site in the Aravalis as a prospective landfill site to dispose the city's waste. However, waste reaching a landfill site is not segregated, and, therefore, not treated. This mixed …
With Gurgaon having failed to find a place among the top two cities that would represent Haryana in the Centre's 'Smart City Challenge', chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Wednesday said the state government will develop Gurgaon as the "smartest city" on its own. "Gurgaon is already a smart city …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Anil Uppal & Ors. Vs. U.O.I. & Ors. dated 28/07/2015 regarding the extent of open/park spaces available to the residents of Lagoon Residential Apartment Complex, Ambience Island NH-24, Gurgaon, Haryana.
GURGAON: Another 330 trees will be cut to make space for the upcoming Hero Honda Chowk flyover. Earlier, 52 trees had been cut for the same project. A senior forest department official said the range officer had already carried out the inspection of the trees that are to be cut …
More than 71 per cent households in Kharar village are forced to consume unfit water, while 20 per cent purchase it from water tankers and only 2 per cent get supply water at their doorstep. It is the native village of BJP Bawani Khera MLA Bishember Balmiki. A Need Assessment …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Haryali Welfare Society Vs. State of Haryana & Ors dated 08/07/2015 regarding deconcretisation of the base of the trees, Gurgaon, Haryana.
GURGAON: Despite the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order to remove concrete around trunks of trees in the city, district authorities have done little work on the ground, claims city-based NGO Haryali Welfare Society. The NGO will file an affidavit on Friday in the NGT, claiming a mere 5% of the …
The Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) has issued notices to around 85 hospitals, including the government-run General Hospital in Sector 10, for neither applying for authorization to dispose of biomedical waste (BMW) nor following disposal norms. While the General Hospital was served a show-cause notice, the others, including big …
GURGAON: The city is getting ready to have its own disaster management plan for the first time. Additional deputy commissioner Vinay Pratap Singh is working on a disaster management plan wherein capacity-building activities have been lined up at the level of schools, government colleges, government departments and industries in the …
Administrative staff to serve in New Delhi for three instead of four years now The German Embassy in New Delhi has quietly curtailed the posting of its administrative staff from four to three years making Germany the first country to act on concerns over the poor air quality in the …
GURGAON: Home to more than 25 lakh residents and run by a multi-polar administration, the city is stumbling under a repulsive garbage condition in many sectors. Mounds of garbage have piled up in green belts, vacant plots, near schools in Sectors 15 (parts I and II), 14, 4-7, 27 and …
GURGAON: In view of rapid water depletion here, Union minister Rao Inderjit Singh on Wednesday directed the local administration to ensure maximum conservation of rainwater during upcoming monsoon season. While chairing a meeting on water conservation, Singh, who is also the local MP said, Gurgaon Municipal Corporation, Haryana Urban Development …
GURGAON: The city's air could already be as foul as Delhi's, except there is no way to know. Gurgaon has once again released debatable figures on its air quality, numbers obtained through a mechanism that is both obsolete and inadequate, betraying the administration's indifference to an issue that has now …
Ahead of World Environment Day on June 5, corporate honchos and ministers came together on Thursday to discuss ways to save the city's forests and recharge the area's depleting groundwater level. In a day-long seminar, titled 'Eco-restoration opportunities in and around Aravali to reduce water stress of Gurgaon and NCR', …
GURGAON: Even a month after the National Green Tribunal (NGT) imposed a complete ban in the open, a group of residents claim to have witnessed the act being repeated with impunity at various places in new Gurgaon. The group, led by three women, carried out a survey on Sunday and …
Pollution control drives at the construction sites in the city, following the NGT (National Green Tribunal) order, have run out of steam owing to transfer of senior officials in the pollution control department. Notices have finally been issued to two builders for flouting construction norms, a few weeks after the …
The recent ban on dumping and burning waste in the open has had an unintended and dangerous consequence - unscientific landfill within city limits. The National Green Tribunal's order on burning of waste following set norms, too, has had no impact on the way authorities dispose municipal solid waste (MSW). …
The recent tremors that were felt in the city after yet another earthquake in Nepal have finally jolted the MCG out of its slumber. The civic body on Thursday set up a three-member committee to survey and assess all buildings in the city and submit a list of the ones …
