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 …
The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has found lead contamination in fresh batches of Nestlé India's Maggi noodles tested over the last two months. Out of 46 samples randomly collected from across the state, four showed excess lead content. This lead content, expressed in `parts per million' (or PPM) …
KOLHAPUR: The civic body's lacklustre approach towards implementing sanitation measures in the city has been exposed yet again, with Kolhapur slipping in country-wide cleanliness rankings from 137 to 158 in just four years. According to the survey conducted by the central government in 2011, the city stood at 137 in …
The Swachh Bharat rankings released by the Union urban development ministry on Saturday has placed Kolhapur at 158th position among 479 class I cities in the country. Interestingly, Kolhapur is ahead of six cities recommended by the state government for the Centre's ambitious smart cities project. In 2009, the city …
KOLHAPUR: None of the municipal councils in the state, including Ichalkaranji in Kolhapur, have achieved service level benchmarks set by the Union urban development department ministry, revealed a recently released audit report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG). The CAG had analysed the performance of local municipal …
KOLHAPUR: The Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) seems to be non-serious towards the city's environmental status. This was evident from the fact that its annual environment status report (ESR) for 2014-15 in just 15 days after the work order was given to a city-based firm. The civic body will table the …
KOLHAPUR: The Maharashtra government has taken yet another step to restrict noise pollution in cities by adding the police in the implementation of Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules, 2000. Now, anybody can dial 100 to register a noise pollution complaint without revealing his or her identity. The home department …
KOLHAPUR: Top villagers have decided to approach the Supreme Court over the National Green Tribunal's (NGT) recent decision over allowing Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) to use the abandoned stone quarry as landfill site for solid waste management. The quarry comes under the Top gram panchayat's limits. The gram panchayat had …
KOLHAPUR: Forty-year-old Yogendra Kulkarni, a resident of New Mahadwar Road, might believe in the adage of early-to-bed and early-to-rise but literally struggles to sleep before its midnight because of constant honking of cars, trucks and two-wheelers. And the daybreak is equally painful for his ears as it is all about …
KOLHAPUR: After receiving stiff opposition from the villagers since the last two years, the Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) can finally dump garbage at the disputed Top quarry site. The Pune bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday directed the civic body to construct a six-ft compound wall along …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of the Village Panchayat of Top Vs The State of Maharashtra dated 07/07/2015 regarding allotment of land for Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC), waste landfill site within limits of village Top, particularly, within area of Gaothan.
Divisional commissioner S Chokalingam on Thursday asked the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) to ask the sugar factories in the region to comply with environment-related norms. The factories are shut since the last one month as the sugarcane crushing season ended in May. Chokalingam asked the environmental watchdog to track …
PUNE: Buses running on biofuels in cities like Pune and Kolhapur will soon become a reality if the central government's ambitious 'Green Bus' project goes according to plan. Union minister of road transport and highway Nitin Gadkari has asked the state government to prepare a plan to introduce green buses …
The Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) will table a compliance report to the National Green Tribunal's (NGT) western zone on Thursday. The report will detail the progress of measures undertaken to address solid waste management concerns. While hearing the Top quarry case last month, the NGT approved the civic body's demand …
KOLHAPUR: A fresh fighting may start in the coming days over the ownership of the city's most popular water body — Rankala lake. In its affidavit submitted to the National Green Tribunal (NGT), the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has stated that since the civic body has successively failed in …
The Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) plans to decompose organic waste to generate biogas at the unused dome of the old sewage treatment plant (STP) in Kasba Bawda. Following the National Green Tribunal's (NGT) directive of decentralizing solid waste processing, the KMC will set up the biogas facility in association with …
KOLHAPUR: The Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) may find itself in trouble because of its "inability" in curbing pollution in Rankala lake in the city. In a report sent to its higher office in Mumbai, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has recommended prosecution against the civic body for its inaction …
The city has around 1,500 general practitioners but just 250 of them have been registered with the firm appointed to collect and dispose of the biomedical waste generated in the city. And, the Satara-based firm has threatened to stop the service after May 5 since the doctors have been found …
Veteran scientist R V Bhosale has claimed that environmental changes and increasing air pollution might be the major obstacles to the festival of rays at the Mahalaxmi temple. During the biannual festival, sun rays fall at the feet and face of goddess Mahalaxmi's idol and thousands of devotees throng the …
The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has deployed two machines in the city to measure the dust particles, after it received a written application from NGO Common Man. For the first time, the MPCB is collecting information on the presence of dust particles on some of the busiest roads in …
Data collated over the last three years by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has shown that there was a dip in noise pollution levels in Kolhapur during this Diwali. With instructions to local distributors and manufacturers in southern India to lower levels in firecrackers, the intensity of noise was …
