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 …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Chandran Pillai N & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 07/01/2019 regarding disposal of solid waste in Kollam, Kerala. NGT expressed its dissatisfaction with the Status Report submitted by the Kollam Corporation and pointed out that there was …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Chandran Pillai N. & Others Vs. Union of India & Others dated 29/10/2018 regarding waste management in Kollam, Kerala. NGT in its previous order had directed the Kollam Municipal Corporation to quantify the waste generated in the municipal corporation area …
Thiruvananthapuram: The state government has decided to take up the preservation of Sasthamcotta Lake, the biggest freshwater lake in the state, giving top priority, and would explore the possibilities of establishing a statutory authority for its conservation, chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan said. The need for an ordinance to establish a …
The Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad (KSSP) has released a comprehensive study on the Asramam mangrove forests on the banks of Ashtamudi Lake in Kollam city. The study was carried out in view of the environmental threat faced by the mangrove forests, the lake and the Asramam maidan. Through the booklet …
Order of the National Green Tribunal ((Southern Zone Bench, Circuit Bench at Kochi) in the matter of Lawyers Environmental Awareness Vs State of Kerala dated 23/05/2016 regarding plying of diesel vehicles more than ten years old in Kerala. NGT directs the State of Kerala not to register any diesel vehicle …
The draft Coastal Zone Management Plan (CZMP) for Kochi Corporation area and Maradu municipalities will be put out for public hearing next week. The Kerala Coastal Zone Management Authority has initiated the series of public hearings with a one-day session at Kollam on Thursday. The draft plans were prepared according …
Drive to be held in all HS schools in district The Career Guidance and Counselling wing of the Department of Higher Education, in association with the Motor Vehicles Department, launched a district-level road safety awareness campaign for higher secondary students of government and aided schools on Monday. District Collector Pranab …
Road Fund Board to take loans for work A Rs.10,000-crore project for the development of 22 roads, including the hill highway, in the State to overcome traffic problems was cleared by the Cabinet on Wednesday. Briefing mediapersons after the Cabinet, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said the Kerala Road Fund Board …
Syzygium travncoricum, a tree endemic to Kerala, is no longer ‘critically endangered’ as classified on the red list of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Field studies conducted by the Kerala Forest Research Institute (KFRI) in the wake of the IUCN classification suggest that the tree can now …
The budget proposal to aid local bodies in taking up waste-to-energy projects in public-private partnership mode is expected to improve urban waste management in Kochi and other cities. Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram had proposed “to support municipalities implementing waste-to-energy projects by offering viability gap funding, repayable grant and low-cost …
Faced with the challenge of finding a solution to the worsening waste management crisis across the State, the State government has initiated steps to establish integrated municipal solid waste treatment plants in five more urban local bodies in the State. Suchitwa Mission, the government’s nodal agency for implementation of public …
Drive on against hawkers who encroach upon footpath A series of measures has been initiated by the city police to check illegal parking of vehicles on roads and footpath, and to ensure that road users are fully benefitted by the road corridors that have been developed under the City Road …
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Monday directed the Pollution Control Board to inspect the leacheate treatment plant being installed at the waste treatment plant site of the Kollam Corporation and report whether the deficiencies pointed out by the Board had been rectified. The Bench comprising Acting …
The Kollam Residents Apex Council has said that since the past six months drinking water supply is being denied to more than 200 families living on the northern side of the Taluk Office Junction-Iron Bridge along National Highway in the city. The council said the area housed the abattoir of …
Meet on waste management calls for total ban on plastic Implementation of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) that makes manufacturers responsible for disposal of non-biodegradable waste generated by their products is among the recommendations made to the government by heads of urban local bodies at a workshop on ‘Decentralised waste management,' …
LDF accused of adopting apathetic attitude Activists of the United Democratic Front (UDF) took out a march to the City Corporation, ruled by the Left Democratic Front (LDF), on Wednesday to press their demand for a solution to the garbage crisis in the city. The protesters held a dharna in …
Mayor Prasanna Earnest has said that the Kollam Corporation aims at a slum-free city at the earliest through the implementation of the Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY). Kollam has become the first city in the State to complete the basic formalities to implement the Central scheme. According to Ms. Earnest, the …
KOLLAM: Even as it is feared that Sasthamcotta Lake is shrinking to death, a recent study by the Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad (KSSP) brings the relief that the State's largest freshwater lake is not in danger of extinction. The study submitted to the State government shows that water level of …
KOLLAM: For almost 30 years a sewerage network laid for the western parts of Kollam city had been lying idle and forgotten. No one remembers the exact cost at which it was laid. But now, a scheme has been evolved to assess whether the network can be utilised. The Kerala …
