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 …
INDORE: Indore bench of Madhya Pradesh high court has directed Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) to give details about an illegal construction near Star Public School in Bank Colony on which a mobile tower has been installed. The court has given two months time to furnish the details. Though the order …
Electricity energy requirement in these cities to rise to 15,68,73 MUs by end of 12th plan. Urbanisation, development of infrastructure and increase in the number of malls and shopping complexes will lead to an increase in the electricity energy requirement (EER) in 13 cities from 110,635 million units (MUs) in …
BHOPAL: There is an urgent need to implement water management in the state. Regions like Malwa have been alarmingly overexploited. Highlighting these concerns, a one-day workshop on 'groundwater resources of Madhya Pradesh: opportunities, problems and strategies' was organised in Bhopal on Thursday. Central Ground Water Board (CGWB), north central region, …
INDORE: Poor planning, faulty execution, wrong design and inconvenience to people have disillusioned Indoreans from the BRTS which was quite evident at public hearing on Sunday organised by divisional commissioner on the directions of high court. Nearly 300 people registered their objections and suggestion on BRTS and its execution. Nearly …
In a fresh order on Friday, the Indore bench of Madhya Pradesh high court directed Indore divisional commissioner to issue a public notice in different newspapers with sufficient space inviting objections with regard to the under construction BRTS project and also to hold a public hearing again. In the order, …
INDORE: The Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) of Indore will be the second project of its own kind in the country. The project, which was likely to become operational by mid-April, is being constructed on the lines of already existing BRTS project in Ahmedabad. The project, which will cover 11.5 …
INDORE: A team of World Bank officials reviewed BRTS progress and expressed satisfaction over its status, here on Thursday. Construction of bus stands on the 11-km stretch of BRTS that has 21 stations, is in its last leg while erection of civil infrastructure started in 2007 is on at a …
Yet the state authorities have to work harder to implement it to make the state slum-free by upgrading or creating new housing infrastructure in slum areas The Madhya Pradesh government has claimed that sixteen cities of the state have joined Rajiv Awas Yojana, also known as RAY. Yet the state …
INDORE: Here is a news to worry for Indoreans. The level of air pollution in the city is increasing with every passing year and so is the amount of suspended particulates (PM10).This can be scary for the city residents with the new findings of Global Burden of Disease (GBD) count, …
INDORE: Soon, information on wildlife of the entire Madhya Pradesh will be available at a single place. The forest department of Indore has sent a proposal for setting up a wildlife interpretation centre at Ralamandal Wildlife Sanctuary in Indore that has reportedly been accepted by eco-tourism board of Madhya Pradesh. …
Growth is happening faster than we ever imagined. Construction is booming and expansion is gobbling agricultural land I travelled to two different cities in two different states last fortnight — Indore and Guwahati. I came back with images identified by common distinctions: piles of garbage and glitzy new shopping malls. …
The industrial clusters based in Greater Kochi fall into the group of cities with high pollution levels, as per a study done by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in association with Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi. The study had carried out an environmental assessment of industrial clusters across …
This article discusses the methodology adapted in designing city resilience concepts under changing climate scenarios for two cities in India, namely, Indore and Surat. This initiative was undertaken in the second phase (2009-2010) of Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) programme. The process of resilience planning has demonstrated how …
The Farmers’ Welfare & Agriculture Development Department has set a target to distribute soil health cards to all the farmers of Madhya Pradesh. So far, over 7.9 lakh soil health cards have been distributed since April 2009. About one crore cards are proposed to be distributed during the 12th Five-Year …
The issue of climate change is cross-cutting, it has a potential to affect a number of sectors augmenting the growth of the city. Risk and vulnerability assessment was conducted for the city in consultation with Indore City Advisory Committee (CAC), Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC), academic institutions, private sectors and community. …
The Central Government has directed Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) to sign gas sales and purchase agreement (GSPA) with NTPC and 10 other city gas distribution (CGD) companies to supply gas from the KG-D6 fields. Recently, Communist Party of India (Marxist) Rajya Sabha member Tapan Sen had, in a letter to …
In a case of illegal drug trial, a man from Indore “discovered” through local newspapers that he was an uninformed guinea-pig for a German drug firm. The newspapers reported the matter after it was raised in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly. Dhananjay Shrivastava did not know trials of Olodaterol — a …
The alleged illegal clinical trials of untested drugs by pharmaceutical firms in the country, has come under the judicial scrutiny with the Supreme Court seeking the Centre's stand on a plea for an independent probe into it. A bench of justices R.M. Lodha and H.L. Gokhale issued notices to the …
Accelerating growth in the transport sector, a booming construction industry, and a growing industrial sector are responsible for worsening air pollution in Indian cities. While estimates of health impacts are effective in raising overall concern about air quality, they do not specifically answer the question of what are the sources …
Bhopal : Houses will be provided to about three lakh poor families living in slums of six cities of the state under Rajiv Awas Yojna. These cities are Bhopal, Indore, Jabalpur, Gwalior, Ujjain and Sagar. An appeal will be made to the Union Government to bear 80 percent cost under …
