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 …
Kolhapur: The civic body recently got the final nod of the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) and other departments to dump waste at the Takala landfill site. The MPCB has prescribed that the waste to be dumped at the landfill site should have more than 77% inert meterial so that …
Police have already started initiating measures to ensure that the Ganesh festival will be celebrated without violating noise level norms. With the festival a month away, orders have been issued to all the police stations in the district to convene meetings of Ganesh mandal members and undertaking a written statement …
KOLHAPUR: The Maharashtra pollution control board (MPCB) has swung into action to take immediate and time-bound steps to curb air pollution in 17 major cities in the state, including Kolhapur, Mumbai, Pune, Aurangabad, Nashik and Nagpur, after a recent directive from the central agency. The central pollution control board (CPCB) …
Kolhapur: Bhima Sonjari is a craftsman and survives making ear cleaner pins. He has been ill for the past 10 days because of typhoid and still cannot rest as his shanty is wet due to heavy rain in the past four days. He cannot afford a bed and has arranged …
The Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) has drafted a time-bound plan to arrest sewage water flowing into the Panchganga river leading to its pollution. The plan was drafted after the state environment ministry slammed the civic authorities for failing to address pollution in the river. Civic officials met the state authorities …
Kolhapur: The forest department has finalised 11,252 sites and prepared pits for sapling plantation in the district. This is a part of the state wide mission of planting two crore saplings on July 1. The mission is to increase the green cover of the state from 18% to 33%. The …
Kolhapur: The civic body on Saturday clarified that the landfill site being developed at Takala will be utilised only for dumping inert material and not fresh solid waste. Several organisations have raised the doubts over the intention of the Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) to use the landfill site, which is …
A day after people celebrated Shiv Jayanti with loud sound systems during procession, Kolhapur police took strict action against those responsible for violating prescribed noise level norms and have registered cases against 60 persons including city deputy mayor Digambar Farakte on Monday. Police have also booked the owners of the …
Kolhapur: Activists here have said that while the Centre's new rules on littering and non-segregation of waste are suitable for the city, the lethargy of the municipal corporation staff in implementing them will prove to be a major hurdle. In the new rules drafted for solid waste management, the Union …
Kolhapur: The University Grants Commission has asked all educational institutions to develop green campuses in a bid to promote the idea. As per a circular dated March 10, the UGC has asked university officials to send proposals under the Development of Solar Cities programme. The project, under the ministry of …
Kolhapur: Experts warn that the mismanagement of the local water bodies will destroy them in a decade and would bring Kolhapur on the verge of chaos. Kalamba lake in Kolhapur, which was the only source of drinking water for citizens for years, has dried up for the first time in …
KOLHAPUR: The civic body has issued notices to three clinics in the past last two days and imposed a penalty of Rs 15,000 on one of them for allegedly dumping biomedical waste in the garbage collection container. The Biomedical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2015 have made it mandatory for …
Kolhapur: The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) on Monday handed over Rankala water sample reports, compiled in the last three years, to the National Green Tribunal (NGT)-appointed experts. The experts, Upendra Patel and Nirmal Shah, are from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in Gujarat. They were on a two-day …
KOLHAPUR: The solar and wind power generating equipment on the hillock near Jotiba temple has gone missing, showing the apathy of the local administration. The plant was set up about 10 years ago by then state minister Vinay Kore to generate power through the two non-conventional sources of energy. The …
KOLHAPUR: The civic body's move to hire 350 private sanitary workers for the collection, segregation and transportation of garbage in the city has not gone down well with the social activists, who are crying foul over the attempts to privatise the waste management system. The Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) has …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Sunil Kundlik Kemble & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 14/12/2015 regarding pollution of Rankala lake caused due to releasing of sewage water from city area of Kolhapur. The issue was linked with cleaning of the river Panchganga …
The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) on Tuesday slammed the municipal corporation for failing to control the overflowing sewage water from Jayanti nullah. City-based civic activists' forum Prajasttak Samaj Seva Sanstha made an oral complaint to the board stating that the overflowing sewage is entering the Panchganga and causing pollution. …
The Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) has issued show-cause notices to 52 Ganesh mandals for obstructing the traffic along major roads and causing sound pollution. The KMC has taken such an action for the first time after the Bombay high court (HC) directed all the civic bodies to regulate traffic flow …
Mayor Vaishali Dakare has appealed to Ganesh mandals to avoid the use of high-decibel music systems during the festival season. She was speaking at a Ganesh award distribution ceremony at Shahu Smarak Bhavan, arranged by SPN Digital. Dakare said that high-decibel sound systems disturb the environment and are harmful for …
The Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) will involve mandal operators to tackle garbage issues during the upcoming ten-day Ganesh festival period. Every year, the garbage generation doubles during the festival, putting a strain over the civic employees even after few weeks after the end of the festival. While on a normal …
