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 …
Shimla is among the six cities selected for the prestigious City Links Climate Adaptation Partnership Programme (CAAP), funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The programme will be managed by the International City Managers Association. The programme will prepare long-term strategies to meet the emerging challenge of …
2,000 buildings to face action; MC to give defaulters’ list to HC The Shimla Municipal Corporation (MC) will approach the High Court and submit the list of buildings which failed to comply with the High Court orders to paint the roofs red or green by extended deadline which expired today. …
Shimla: Unscientific disposal of sewage and solid waste is threatening the pristine environment and water sources of the Queen of Hills, as Shimla was fondly called by the British colonial rulers. Its wooded deodars, Raj-style structures and chuckling peaks on the horizon may lure you, but it's not an easygoing …
Water supply pipelines of the Irrigation and Public Health (IPH) Department have got “mixed” with septic tanks in the periphery areas posing a serious threat to several lives. Six jaundice cases were reported from the outer areas of the city on February 19, while 13 HRTC employees suffered from jaundice …
The administration and the Animal Husbandry Department today breathed a sigh of relief as all 17 samples of dead and alive broilers sent to a Jalandhar-based laboratory tested negative for bird flu. The samples were sent for testing after about 352 broilers supplied from Haryana, which arrived at a Shimla …
For more than two hours on the morning of September 1, a motley group of city councillors, police officers and civil servants in Shimla listened with evident fascination as the former general officer commanding of Uttarakhand Sub Area recounted details of the unprecedented rescue operation in the wake of the …
The southwest monsoon on Sunday withdrew from Himachal Pradesh, but remained 38 percent deficit, the weather bureau said. This was the driest monsoon in the decade, it added. “The monsoon remained deficit in most parts of the State that witnessed 38 percent deficit rain,” meteorological office director Manmohan Singh told …
Hyderabad, Mumbai and Shimla spanning 2005 - 2012. We developed Poisson regression models to study ‘the main temperature effect’ as well as ‘additional impacts’ of sustained high and low temperatures (i.e. heat and cold waves) on all-cause mortality risk. Results: We find large heterogeneity among mortality risks across urban areas. …
It will provide additional water supply of 51 MLD per day The ambitious Kol Dam water augmentation project for the Shimla Municipal Corporation has been given technical approval by the Union Urban Development Ministry and its cost has been further reduced by Rs 60 crore in the revised detailed project …
Now, you can buy drinking water by using an ATM card in Shimla, the first in Himachal Pradesh. Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Monday opened the innovative water-dispensing system at the Ridge to provide clean water to tourists and locals. The machine will dispense a litre of water for 50 …
The Himachal Pradesh High Court has asked the State government whether Shimla still retains the tag of a pedestrian city where the walkers have the right to walk freely. Hearing a petition on vehicular problems of Shimla filed by a city resident, Dharam Pal Thakur, the court asked the government …
Taking a tough stance on the issue of causing environmental pollution by the municipal solid waste (MSW) plant in Shimla, the circuit bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) today directed Hanjer Biotech to start its solid waste plant by tomorrow. It cautioned the plant manager to not to stop …
With the National Green Tribunal (NGT) restraining the Himachal Pradesh Government from lifting ban on construction in 17 green belts of Shimla, the entire exercise to allow construction in these green patches has been put on hold, at least for the time being. The state government has been compelled to …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Yogendra Mohan Sengupta Vs. Union of India & Ors dated 30/05/2014 regarding non-forest activity in the green belt area of Shimla.
Notwithstanding the recommendation in the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) report that Shimla be declared a no-construction zone, the construction activity could be allowed in 17 green belts as the government today constituted a committee to physically inspect vacant plots and submit its report to the government by June 30. The …
The Town and Country Planning (TCP) Department has received about 50 objections and suggestions towards the final decision on the relaxation of ban on construction in the 17 green belts in the state capital. The department will shortly start hearing the suggestions received till January 31. The hearing will be …
Remote tribal areas facing low voltage and frequent power cuts can look forward to reliable power supply as HIMURJA has prepared plans for the phase-II of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, envisaging a 2-MW solar power plant at Kaza in the tribal Spiti valley and 50 solar power plants …
A model stat-of-the-art facility would be set up at the state-run Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) here for the disposal of biomedical waste. A proposal has been sent by the Health Department to the Department of Environment and Science and Technology to address environmenta-lists' concerns. “We have received a proposal …
The Himachal Pradesh government has decided to continue its construction ban in 17 green belts of the town, an official said on Sunday. "The cabinet last evening (Saturday) decided to continue with the ban on construction in the 17 green belts falling within the Shimla Municipal Corporation limits," a government …
The Shimla Municipal Corporation (SMC) will map the biodiversity in the urban forest area of the city and prepare a "bio-diversity register" of flora and fauna to harness bio-resources. Anup Vaid, Chairman, Biodiversity Management Committee, SMC, said they had a meeting today and decided to launch the biodiversity mapping project. …
