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 …
Thiruvananthapuram: The capital city, already burdened with disposal of municipal solid waste, generates 1,864.98 tonnes of hazardous waste a year. The inventory of hazardous waste (HW) prepared by State Pollution Control Board shows that 1,032.34 tonnes of hazardous waste are disposed through landfill method while 832.64 tonnes are given to …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone, Chennai) in the matter of Edayar Resident’s Association Vs Government of India & Others dated 31/03/2017 regarding pollution caused to Karamana River, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The Court noted that River Karamana originates from Agastyar- Koodam of Western Ghats and join the Arabian Sea …
A study conducted among 10 Indian metro cities investigates the impact of municipal solid waste and animal birth control programme on stray dog population and its menaces. Its results show statistically strong and positive linkages among the variables such as human population, municipal solid waste, per capita solid waste, food …
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 …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zonal Bench, Chennai) in the matter of Vilappilsala Samyuktha Samara Samithi Vilappil Panchayat, Peyad P.O., Thiruvananthapuram.Vs. State of Kerala Represented by its Chief Secretary Kerala Government Secretariat Thiruvananthapuram dated 30/09/2015 regarding attempts to establish a Solid Waste Treatment Plant without obtaining necessary approval …
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 …
Judgement of the High Court of Kerala in the matter of Anitha S. Vs State of Kerala & Others dated 07/07/2015 regarding leasing out of 2 acres of land to the Thiruvananthapuram Development Authority for construction of a bus-bay and shopping complex out of 5.5. acre land of the Government …
More projects will be planned and executed to expand the sewerage system in the city, Minister for Health V.S. Sivakumar has said. He was speaking after inaugurating the sewerage development work in Punnapuram colony here on Tuesday. Mr. Sivakumar said an amount of Rs.35 lakh had been sanctioned for the …
The public works department on Wednesday got administrative sanction to install 10 women-friendly e-toilets each at all government medical colleges in the state. The building division of the department will be in charge of setting up the Eve's own e-toilets on the premises of medical colleges in Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikode, Thrissur, …
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 …
The Kerala High Court on Wednesday directed the Pollution Control Board (PCB) experts to inspect the Vilappilsala waste treatment plant once again and assess the state of affairs, including the feasibility of having such a unit. A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Manjula Chellur and Justice K Vinod Chandran issued …
Today, there are at least three basic facts about the waste that we see all around us in Indian cities and towns. One, gone are the days when garbage was considered a “waste” in terms of the huge spending that local bodies had to make to collect and dispose it …
Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said here on Wednesday that the Cabinet had decided to shift the solid waste treatment plant at Vilappilsala that had invited much public protest, and build a plant at another site using new technology to treat waste from Thiruvananthapuram city. Briefing presspersons on the Cabinet decisions, …
Thiruvananthapuram: The Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) has awarded a Gold certificate under the LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) rating system for the Technopark Phase-III building under construction. This is the first time that a facility of Technopark is being awarded a green building certificate, its authorities say.
Hundreds of people come together to press for an immediate nation-wide ban on the pesticide Demonstrations, signature campaigns held as part of Anti-Endosulfan Day observance India should stand with the call for Endosulfan ban at the Stockholm Convention: Sudheeran Thrissur: Hundreds of people, including environmental activists, health professionals, students, and …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The National Fishworkers' Forum (NFF) has reiterated its demand to keep the country's coastline free of any nuclear installation, particularly in view of the disaster that has struck Japan following the tsunami. It demanded a White Paper from the Ministry of Environment and Forest on all nuclear installations in …
Of late, the civic bodies are firm on having a decentralised policy to reduce waste reaching the dumping grounds and the landfill sites. At source:A plant to treat biodegradable waste in Kozhikode. Such decentralised facilities have become imperative now. The accumulation of solid waste in cities and towns offers a …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Work on a model fishing village scheme started with an outlay of Rs.200 crore in the current financial year will be completed within five years, Finance Minister T.M. Thomas Isaac has said. In his budget speech in the Assembly on Thursday, Dr. Isaac saidall fish workers would be enrolled …
Biodiversity park starts functioning at Kakkavayal Kozhikode: With its exquisite collection of rare plant species, on 111.4 hectares, the Vanaparvam biodiversity park, which started functioning at Kakkavayal here on Thursday, is expected to give an impetus to eco-tourism initiatives in the district. The setting of the park will attract casual …
