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 …
Praveen Jose GURGAON: The tremors felt in NCR as a result of the 7.3 magnitude earthquake that rocked Nepal on Tuesday triggered a demand for a structural audit of all buildings in highrise-dense Gurgaon to determine if these can withstand a strong earthquake. "A structural audit should be made mandatory …
For the second time in a month, 10-year-old Rohit Pandey, a resident of Vipul Belmonte on Golf Course Road, had a severe asthma attack. His condition stabilized only after he was admitted to a hospital's intensive care unit and put on oxygen. The Pandeys moved to Gurgaon from Pune in …
GURGAON: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has planned to replace conventional lights with power saving LED lights, but only on the Delhi side of the expressway. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was recently signed between Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) and NHAI, under which the entire cost of …
The MCG's town planning department has identified categories of industries to be shifted out of residential areas. This follows a meeting between officials of the departments of urban local bodies with industries and commerce, held at Haryana Bhavan in Delhi on Saturday. A total of 2,515 units have been identified …
GURGAON: A day after the National Green Tribunal (NGT) imposed a complete ban on burning waste in the open, residents across the city witnessed the act being repeated with impunity. Residents of Sectors 15, 27, 45, 49, 50 and Sushant Lok 1 notified MCG on Wednesday about the ban being …
Experts call for conducting mandatory audit of buildings In the wake of a massive earthquake in Nepal that left behind a trail of destruction, experts in Gurgaon are of the view that mandatory audit of buildings should be conducted and existing structures should be upgraded with retro-fittings. Speaking to The …
Following orders from the National Green Tribunal (NGT), the MCG has asked all its junior engineers to ensure that no tree under its jurisdiction is choked by concrete. A minimum space of 1.25 metres will be maintained around a tree trunk while building sidewalks, etc. The directive was issued after …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday pulled up various state government agencies, including MCG, HUDA and the forest department, for concretizing open ground around trees in Gurgaon, an unscientific act that significantly cuts short a tree's life, and is againstministry of urban development (MoUD) guidelines. In its order, a …
Gurgaon, a city in a perpetual building boom, is planning to build four construction waste recycling plants soon, one each in the four blocks of the district. “Keeping in mind the steps National Green Tribunal is taking to improve the quality of environment we are living in, the Municipal Corporation …
The ministry of environment, forests and climate change has directed the state government to enforce a blanket ban on all plastic bag manufacturing units operating without a licence across all districts of the state. The Union ministry and the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) ordered the Haryana State Pollution Control …
On an unusually cool April morning, around 150 cyclists set out from DLF Galleria market for a 36km ride to the centre of Delhi. The purpose of this cyclothon was to raise awareness of the hazards that vehicular pollution poses for residents in the NCR, and to promote non-motorised transport. …
GURGAON: Residents of Hasanpur village, who were forced to live with a major water problem for years on end, can now breathe easy. A water purification unit, inaugurated by assistant deputy commissioner Vinay Pratap on Thursday, will provide RO-filtered water to the villagers at a cost of Rs 6 per …
Heavy rains throughout Sunday night and Monday caused water-logging and congestion on all major arterial roads in the city. The traffic slowed down during the peak-hours causing delays ranging from 15 to 45 minutes as almost entire carriageways were rendered unusable. The worst-hit areas were Rajiv Chowk, Hero Honda Chowk, …
The millennium city generates about 600 tonnes of municipal solid waste every day, which is handled in the most conventional manner. The problem is compounded with no single authority responsible for waste management of the city’s urban area. No integrated solid waste management plan is in place and the burning …
The HUDA chief administrator's office on Monday issued directions to administrators of Gurgaon, Faridabad, Rohtak, Hisar and Panchkula to establish special task forces to check burning of waste, including leaves, in the open. This follows National Green Tribunal's January 19 directive that also emphasized creation of a website to enable …
Projects to improve the city's infrastructure and transport facilities are being cleared at a breakneck speed, but the improvement will come at a cost of nearly 5,000 trees and 18,000 plants, which will have to be felled to make way for better roads, power plants and water pipelines. While these …
The MCG, in collaboration with private firm IL&FS;, is finally set to establish a construction waste treatment plant in Chakkarpur. It hopes this will put an end to haphazard dumping of construction debris and associated waste in and around the city. According to MCG chief engineer R K Singhla, the …
Several concerned citizens called upon the Deputy Commissioner here on Monday demanding that the open dumping and burning of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in the city be stopped. The delegation told Deputy Commissioner T.L. Satyaprakash that a mini landfill had illegally come up behind Nirvana Country in Sector 50 off …
A weeklong protest by residents of Sushant Lok I against an unauthorized mobile tower in the colony's community park has been successful in getting the tower removed, as Reliance, which erected the tower, ceded to the demands on Thursday. According to the residents, the 20-metre tower was erected overnight in …
GURGAON: Forget tap water, if you thought packaged drinking water was safe in the city, think twice. Though only four samples of packaged drinking water were collected by the food safety department from two units in Gurgaon in the last three years, analysis showed that all were unfit for consumption, …
