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 …
City Corporation authorities are in a fix as the Kudumbashree members engaged in the daily household waste collection have expressed their unwillingness to work for the private agency entrusted with the execution of aerobic bin waste collection scheme at the houses. The Kudumbashree members have decided to keep themselves away …
The motor vehicle department recommended the government not to issue permits for diesel auto-rickshaws in Kochi and Kozhikode. Transport commissioner Tomin J Thachankary recommended the government that since diesel auto-rickshaws cause large amount of environmental pollution, it is necessary to restrict them from getting city permits. Instead, the permits should …
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 …
Inoculated bricks to be manufactured locally Councillors in Kozhikode Municipal Corporation will set a model to the people on ways to manage organic waste under the Corporation’s newly introduced decentralised waste management plan. The councillors have been given perforated buckets and inoculated bricks, which will be used in their homes …
Mananchira-Vellimadukunnu road-widening project The Mananchira-Vellimadukunnu Road Action Committee has demanded that District Collector N. Prasanth distribute within two weeks the amount of Rs. 35 crore recently sanctioned by the State government to landowners who handed over their property for the road-widening project. Committee president and historian M.G.S. Narayanan and general …
Huge events cause huge amounts of waste, be it conventions, festivals or weddings. But most event managers tend to neglect the fact that waste management is as important as proper event management. “Waste is merely misplaced resource,” believes Jabir Karat, an enterprising young man from Kozhikode, who has been on …
Ditched computers and smartphones are fast raking in money for the cash-strapped coffers of the Kerala government. Clean Kerala Company, a State-run agency under the Department of Local-Self Government, has contributed about Rs.25 lakh to the exchequer through sale of recyclable e-waste and plastic scrap collected from 43 local bodies …
KOZHIKODE: City corporation authorities have instructed the Kudumbashree members engaged in daily waste collection to not burn the plastic waste collected from the houses for disposal. The direction asked them to strictly adhere to the instruction . The decision will be made compulsory once the civic body removes all the …
Three years after Kozhikode was declared the state's first plastic-waste free district, the city corporation is now planning to impose a total ban on plastic carry bags, effective from October 2. The move is to make the corporation limits free of plastic waste. A final decision on the ban would …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT), Southern Bench, has refused to stop the laying of 400 kV power line being laid by Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. between Mysore and Kozhikode in Kerala through the forests near Coorg. The project had stirred protests in Coorg considering safety issues and felling …
The city corporation has taken steps to popularise biogas plants within its limit. The move was taken in the wake of lukewarm response received from the public. The civic body will provide 50% subsidy to set up biogas plants while those who have opted for vermicompost and pipe composting have …
In a pioneering initiative to put in place a fool proof-waste disposal plan to prevent bird/ animal strike incidents during aircraft operations, the Karipur Airport has launched a zero-waste initiative to make over 1,000 houses surrounding the airport waste free. Under the project, the airport authorities have provided over 1,000 …
‘Poor response’ from the two Corporations to request for plan erala Monorail Corporation Ltd. (KMCL), the Special Purpose Vehicle set up to execute the Rs.5,581-crore monorail project in Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode, will rope in a multi-disciplinary consultancy to prepare the Comprehensive Mobility Plan for the two cities. The decision was …
As drought tightens its grip on Kozhikode city, the district administration has launched a three-pronged project to protect water sources, maintain water bodies and improve the quality of drinking water. Conceived as a long-term project and called Shudham Sundaram Nammude Kozhikode, it aims to include all the government departments to …
Thiruvananthapuram : Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) and Kerala Monorail Corporation have inked a general consultancy agreement for monorail projects in Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode. Together, the projects would cost about R5,581 crore in the first phase. The pact was signed in the state assembly complex in the presence of chief …
Kozhikode corporation has decided to float tenders to set up an advanced treatment plant at Njeliyanparamba trenching ground. The delay from the part of the state government in finalizing an agency to set up an advanced waste plant at the trenching ground even after a year has forced the civic …
KOZHIKODE: The city corporation will conduct door-to-door cancer screening for women in a bid to reduce the number of cases here. The civic body has decided to extend the ambitious Jeevanam project of Kudumbashree Mission to the entire corporation covering around 3.5 lakh women. The survey will begin in August …
Formation of Kerala Drinking Water Supply Company Ltd. On April 9, Ponnath Devarajan, city councillor for Marad, a communally sensitive fishing hamlet that faces water shortage, moved a resolution before the Kozhikode Corporation Council against a government order for forming Kerala Drinking Water Supply Company Ltd. He said the company, …
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 …
The Kozhikode Monorail Project is completely investment-oriented and not people-oriented, environmentalist A. Achuthan has said. Speaking at a discussion on ‘Monorail: expectations and apprehensions’ organised by the Citizen’s Voice here on Wednesday, he said all tall claims made about its viability and environment-friendly nature were an eyewash. Citing the project …
