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 …
Quasi-judicial officials such as the police and the regional transport office have failed to enforce the notification of the state environment department regarding permissible sound levels for horns and sirens of vehicles plying in the city. This was revealed in the Environment Status Report (ESR) released during the standing committee …
The Pune bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday directed the police to take action against those who create excessive noise on the streets during the night of December 31. The tribunal has and also asked the police to take penal action, if required. The NGT bench comprising …
AURANGABAD: Shiv Sena and BJP are all set to cross swords over the issue of parallel water supply scheme being implemented under public private partnership (PPP) arrangement. The model failed to make an impact and residents continued to suffer erratic and polluted water supply in different parts of the city. …
AURANGABAD: Thousands of dead fish were found in the historical Salim Ali Lake in the city on Sunday. While the Aurangabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) is yet to ascertain the reason, environmentalists say they have a strong suspicion that toxicity in the water has led to the death of the fish. …
AURANGABAD: For the first time in the history of Aurangabad Municipal Corporation, security personnel are guarding the elevated water reservoirs to streamline water distribution in the city. Aurangabad City Water Utilities Company Limited said the move is to avoid any untoward incident. The AMC, which is supplying water for an …
Almira Patel, member of the Supreme Court Committee for Solid Waste Management (SWM) and pioneer of the SWM movement in India, will arrive here on Friday to help the Aurangabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) to come out of the 'red zone'. A service-level benchmarking by the ministry of urban development, conducted …
The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay high court on Monday issued contempt notice to municipal commissioner Harshdeep Kamble for violating its order by opening the Salim Ali lake for public on July 2 without talking permission of the court or the civic body's biodiversity committee. Acting on a public interest …
AURANGABAD: Terming the Union budget presented by finance minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday as 'pragmatic and sensible', the city's industrialists said the budget would send a positive signal to investors and lay a clear roadmap for economic recovery of the country. Vice-president of Chamber of Marathwada Industries and Agriculture (CMIA) …
AURANGABAD: In a bid to encourage people to adopt eco-friendly methods, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) on Sunday organised a paper bag making workshop at Gadiya Vihar colony. Pravin Joshi, MPCB's regional officer, said, "The effects of plastic bags on the environment are really devastating. While there are many …
Experts have said that the ongoing water scarcity in the city was man-made to create a favourable atmosphere for the proposed Rs 792-crore parallel water supply pipeline project, which has been pending for about two years. Experts said that the municipal administration has overlooked maintenance of the existing water distribution …
AURANGABAD: Even as the country celebrates the new government, Devanagri residents are still going through tough times. Despite efforts, their plea for regular supply of drinking water from the AMC has fallen on deaf ears. Since February, the water supply system of the entire city has collapsed. At that moment …
Pune: Food safety norms will now be implemented in six cantonment areas in Maharashtra including three in Pune and one each in Nashik, Ahmednagar and Aurangabad that come under the Union government’s jurisdiction. State government officials have been asked to oversee the work in these areas. Though standards and guidelines …
Mumbai: Why is the state government sitting on the policy guidelines to regulate cell tower installation across Maharashtra though they were drafted two years ago, ask citizens from Thane, Navi Mumbai and Kalyan-Dombivli. After the BMC recently drafted a policy to regulate such installations in Mumbai, other cities, second-rung towns …
Hopes Rise For Better Quality Of Life Mumbai: Maharashtra’s urban population growth is slowing down. The latest Census 2011 figures show that in the 2001-2011 decade, the state urban population grew at 23.67% as against 34.57% in the 1991-2001 decade. Census officials attribute the declining growth rate to lower fertility …
AURANGABAD: The department of water resources on Monday submitted a water utilization chart to the state government, containing the requirement details of the region, including Aurangabad Municipal Corporation, till July 31 this year. According to the utilisation plan of water from the Jayakwadi reservoir between April 27 and July 31, …
Pune: Swine flu has claimed 20 lives in the state since January, nine in March alone, say state health officials. Among the total number of casualties, Pune district accounts for the highest number (10), said state surveillance officer Pradip Awate. “Six people died of H1N1 influenza within Pune municipal limits …
MHADA finalised Thursday a budget of Rs 4,897.11 crore for 2013-14, with almost 50 per cent of the money or Rs 2,411 crore being allocated for land acquisition and construction of affordable houses. "We have kept aside nearly Rs 750 crore for land acquisition. The largest potential for land acquisition …
Seven coal blocks that had been allocated to the Maharashtra state government in 2006, together accounting for more than 4,000 million tonnes of coal reserves, remain unoperationalised six years later. While one block was cancelled as it fell within the boundaries of a tiger reserve, the other six – three …
Of the 50 districts in the country where Aadhaar will be implemented, five are from Maharashtra. Though enrolments are currently voluntary, once Aadhaar comes into force, it will be mandatory to quote the number while drawing salaries in government jobs and investing in government schemes and while making electronic payments. …
The Maharashtra government has decided to launch a project with $85 million funding from the Asian Development Bank, which will augment the agriculture infrastructure in the State. The project is named Agribusiness Infrastructure Development Investment Program (AIDIP) and aims to achieve accelerated investment in agriculture sector and to support related …
