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 …
The ban imposed on sand mining in Ghaggar river bed, on the instructions of Punjab and Haryana High Court last year, is turning out to be a futile exercise. In the absence of stringent penalties, illegal mining continues unabated. As many as 432 cases have been detected since the ban …
The effective use of land resources for urbanisation, efficient management and for green buildings will be discussed by a conglomeration of town planners, architects, educationists and policy makers, during a three-day National Town and Country Planners
By July this year the Municipal Corporation (MC) would be able to save around 7 million gallons daily (mgd) of drinking water that is now being used for irrigation of green spaces. This would be done by making tertiary treated water available for irrigation of parks, gardens and greenbelts. The …
The Punjab government in response to an ongoing public interest litigation (PIL) demanding protection of Sukhna Lake from deterioration today submitted that
While rains that lashed the township late last night did bring the mercury down by a few degrees, residents were left to handle waterlogged roads and erratic power supply. Many sectors in the township struggled with the monsoon woes as they paved their vehicles through roads full of water and …
Panchkula: Fogging to continue in city till Sept 28; thrust on slums and villages With two positive cases of dengue being reported from the township, the health authorities have been forced to pull up their socks to combat the spread of infection. While authorities have been claiming that they were …
In order to do away with the cumbersome process of manually switching on and off streetlights, the administration has decided to install solar switches across the township. Brain child of Deputy Commissioner Ashima Garg, the project will be outsourced by the administration to an external agency and is likely to …
Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and Water Resources Pawan Kumar Bansal wrote a letter to Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Friday regarding the release of water to Chandigarh from the Phase V and VI of Kajauli. This comes as a fallout of the recent decision of the Punjab …
Complaining about the health hazard that the unauthorised dumping ground has turned into, residents of Sector 23 demanded on Friday that the site be shifted to some other area. Submitting a memorandum to the deputy commissioner, they also asked the Administration to stop dumping garbage in the area till then. …
An evaluation for the development work done in the two watersheds, viz. Bunga and Dabkauri in Panchkula District, Haryana was carried out for 2004 and 2007. Satellite digital data of LISS-IV sensor for 2004 and merge product of LISS-III and PAN for 2007 was used. The data was interpreted for …
Once proposed for a multi-level parking lot, the Sector-5 site has now turned into a dumping ground. While the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) chooses to look the other way, the site has become an eyesore for residents. The vacant land behind Shalimar Mall in Sector 5 had been earmarked …
In a letter to Municipal Commissioner Dr Roshan Sunkaria, Mayor Kamlesh has sought his comments on the report prepared by councillor Chander Mukhi Sharma on the Dadumajra garbage processing plant. A discussion on the report is pending for the last few months. The committee, headed by Sharma, had prepared the …
CHANDIGARH: Energy efficiency measures will be implemented in six more municipal council areas of Haryana through the Energy Service Company route, State Chief Secretary Urvashi Gulati said on Tuesday after presiding over a meeting of the State level monitoring committee for implementation of energy conservation measures and Energy Conservation Act-2001. …
Haryana, at the time of its creation from the womb of Punjab was partly a parched state. Large areas were dry treeless sand dunes. Even drinking water was a privilege. Its has taken long strides since then. The State is becoming a real green land. All the villages get potable …
