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 …
Over 650 structures along the Parwanoo-Shimla highway will be removed to pave the way for the Rs 2,300 crore four-laning project of the road. It will not only reduce travelling time to the state capital but also help in traffic decongestion. Even after a slight change in alignment by the …
Cities across the world have started recognising the need to address urban climate vulnerabilities. In Asia, the role of the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN), a nine-year initiative (2008-2017) supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, has been significant. Over the years, ACCCRN has worked in ten cities in four …
Violation of pollution norms The HP Environment Protection and Pollution Control Board has snapped electricity connections of 17 hotels.The pollution board will tighten its noose around 200 hotels located on riversides in Mandi, Chamba, Shimla and Nahan as these have no approval of the pollution control board for the disposal …
In the tribal areas of Himachal Pradesh, around 20,000 people are awaiting allotment of 'nautor' land for last 15-20 years. Seeing no end to their wait due to the Forest Conservation Act (FCA), which came into force in 1980, now tribals are demanding that either the Act be amended or …
To streamline the transport network in urban areas of Himachal Pradesh, the urban development department has mooted a proposal to set up Urban Mobility Transport Authority (UMTA) in the hill state, which would not only suggest ways and means to decongest towns but would also implement new projects like ropeways, …
The Himachal Road Transport Corporation (HRTC) has urged the Centre to provide an additional 1,000 buses to it under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) for Himachal to improve its services in the hill state. Addressing a press conference here today, Transport Minister GS Bali said of the …
The Circuit Bench of the National Green Tribunal, Shimla, has directed the Municipal Council, Mandi, and Deputy Commissioners of Kullu and Mandi and the Himachal Pradesh Pollution Control Board to file a reply within three weeks on the collection, segregation and disposal of the non-degradable and bio-medical waste. The Bench …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. Karan Singh Vs State of HP Ors dated 30/07/2013 regarding disposal of municipal waste in Solan, Himachal Pradesh.
The Queen of the Hills, as Shimla was fondly called by the British, has been shortlisted for a global project to lower greenhouse gas emissions on the pattern of European cities, a municipal official said. The Shimla Municipal Corporation is one of six Indian cities selected for implementing the "Promoting …
800 Tonnes Created Daily, It Comprises 80% Of Trash Reaching Landfills New Delhi: Delhi is among the largest producers of plastic waste in the country generating over 800 metric tonnes per day. Around 750 metric tonnes reach landfill sites daily of which roughly 80% are plastic bags and packaging materials. …
Shimla, March 4: The Congress will again pursue the ambitious project to bring water for the state capital from the Pabbar river in Rohru, which was grounded due to the involvement of large stretches of dense forest area. The augmentation of water supply to the city by lifting water from …
India is about to breach the $2 trillion GDP mark, as it works its way through the lower end of the middle-income-nation spectrum. We have yet to recognise that the economic output of a large state like Maharashtra is now as large as the entire Indian economy in the early …
The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has decided to carry out four-laning of the Parwanoo-Shimla section of the NH-22 under a single project, instead of two separate projects as planned earlier. As per the decision, the Rs 808 crore project for the Parwanoo-Solan section and Rs 1,800 crore project …
To decongest Shimla’s traffic, the Himachal Pradesh government has come up with an ambitious monorail project proposal for the hill station. Himachal’s Urban Development Minister Sudhir Sharma said he, along with Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, met the Union Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath over the issue. “Kamal Nath has asked …
This report has been prepared for submission to the Governor under Article 151 of the Constitution. The report contains findings on performance audit and audit of transactions in various departments including Public Works and Irrigation and Public Health Departments, audit of stores and stock, audit of autonomous bodies. The report …
SHIMLA: Agriculture sector has got big boost in Himachal Pradesh during the last four years as it is the mainstay of the people. This sector alone has provided direct employment to around 71 percent population of the state. Having allocated 12 percent of its plan resources for agriculture and allied …
Even as decongestion of the town by way of having three satellite townships and shifting of the grain, timber and vegetable markets and other services to the outskirts of the town have been suggested in the interim City Mobility Plan proposed for the town, the local Municipal Corporation (MC) has …
The Keran Taryamber Kisan Kalyan Samiti has filed a complaint before the SP, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Shimla, alleging that Harish Cement Company was cheating farmers whose land would be acquired by the company if the plant would be set up near here. It was alleged in the complaint …
