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 council fails to reach a solution The city roads will continue to wear a pathetic look as a Corporation council meeting held here recently to discuss waste management failed to find any solution. Piles of rotten waste can be seen every street. Stench emanating from the waste is …
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 …
People threaten to intensify agitation Local residents are protesting against acid pollution from a jewellery manufacturing unit at Cheruvathery, near here. Around 100 wells near the unit have been polluted allegedly from the acid used in the jewellery manufacturing unit. The residents complained that though they had sent the water …
Trap shooting is an international sporting event where participants shoot down wooden pigeons mid-flight.It is ironical that the state government has decided to decimate the homes of hundreds of birds by giving permission to cut 55 majestic trees for the event scheduled for the National Games. The grand old trees …
Action against persons parking their vehicles on road side A meeting of the Road Safety Committee convened by District Collector M.S. Jaya on Monday reviewed the new traffic regulations implemented in the city. The meeting decided to remove the median at the Patturaikkal Junction to make the traffic smooth. One-way …
Tuda Planning To Sow Seeds For Green Dist Thrissur: Thrissur Urban Development Authority (Tuda) is planning a massive afforestation project in the district by roping in colleges, schools and youth clubs. The project -- ‘One Million Shade’ --plans to plant 10 lakh saplings in a span of five years in …
Corporation opts to burn garbage on streets Garbage has turned into a baggage that is gnawing at the minds of Thrissur residents. It has been more than a year since the dumping of the city’s garbage at Lalur stopped. As a result, the accumulated filth has reduced the city to …
Thrissur city is reeling under an acute water crisis. All wells, ponds and water sources in and around the city have either gone dry or filled up by real estate sharks. There is already a fall in water supply and the situation is bound to deteriorate during summer. In this …
Corporation has opted for burning of garbage on streets Sanitation workers with bamboo-brooms and kerosene cans roaming around the city and burning garbage heaps at street corners is a regular scene at nights in Thrissur these days. As garbage removal to Lalur, where the city corporation’s garbage disposal site is …
KOCHI: The water bird count conducted at the Kole wetlands of Thrissur has found a significant dip in arrival of birds this year, compared to the last two years. Kole wetlands had been declared 'Ramsar Site' or wetlands of international importance, as it is one of the globally recognized areas …
District Medical Officer warns of an epidemic outbreak Garbage disposal in the city has been hit for the last 10 days. The corporation had signed a contract with a Salem-based company for removing the city’s garbage. However, garbage removal from the city to Salem got disrupted after residents of Salem …
Road near Sakthan Nagar turns into a dumping yard Though the Thrissur Corporation managed to enter into a contract with a private agency for garbage disposal, the city’s sanitation condition has not improved a bit. The Salem-based company, which removed two loads of waste for one day has not turned …
Work on other waste management projects to continue Garbage in Thrissur city is now being removed by a Salem-based company, amidst accolades and brickbats for the arrangement made by the corporation. Mayor I.P. Paul said that the arrangement would continue for at least three months till the corporation could streamline …
District Judge K. P. Jyothindranath who inspected Lalur, the Thrissur Corporation’s waste disposal site, recently has submitted his report to the High Court. He inspected Lalur under a directive of the High Court that the district judge should review waste treatment in the site every six months. The report suggested …
Minister for Forests, Sports and Cinema K. B. Ganesh Kumar told the Assembly on Tuesday that the government proposed to take up programmes to regenerate forest cover. Replying to the debate on the demand for grants for forest, the Minister said that the Department was undertaking regeneration of natural vegetation …
‘Move will destabilise efforts at decentralisation of process’ The Thrissur Corporation is planning to employ a private agency to remove the accumulated garbage from the city. According to corporation sources, a Salem-based agency has approached the civic body offering to remove the garbage at a cost of Rs.3 per kg. …
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 …
Four lakh carrybags are used in Thrissur every day It took school children to show what the elders failed to do in the city. Alarmed by the increasing environmental threat posed by plastic, students of Devamatha CMI Public School in the city launched an anti-plastic drive by distributing 1,700 paper …
Plastic carrybags below 40 microns is banned The Thrissur Corporation is still grappling with the challenge of enforcing a ban on plastic carry bags in the city. The City Corporation declared a ban on plastic carrybags below thickness of 40 microns from July 1, 2011, with a promise to rid …
Finding a permanent solution to the three-decade-old waste management problem of Thrissur city is the main agenda of the corporation, Deputy Mayor Subi Babu has said while presenting the annual budget for 2012-13. The budget has earmarked Rs. 3 crore for the waste management project. Efforts will be taken to …
