Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
The Supreme Court has passed a ruling directing the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to acquire 1.50 acres of land from plot no 438 in Salisbury Park, which had been reserved in the 1966 as well as the 1987 Development Plan (DP) for the purpose of developing a garden and playground. …
On the second day running, there was little respite for residents of Pimpri-Chinchwad from overflowing garbage bins and containers. In several suburbs today, mountains of garbage had sprung up as officials of the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation battled with complaints from residents. Since Saturday, the private vehicles owners, numbering 50, have …
GAIL India, the country's largest transporter and marketer of natural gas, is looking at the possibility of floating a subsidiary to set up compressed natural gas (CNG) outlets along the highways where it has its pipelines. The company is targeting to become a Rs 50,000 crore company by 2011. The …
The highway from Pune to Ahmednagar is an interesting one. Farmers in traditional white peaked caps zip past you, some in fancy new cars. Signs of prosperity are apparent, although the region battled with severe drought just a couple of years ago. A few kilometres down the highway, beyond the …
Forty persons, including women from nine families living, at survey number 2A/8 on Bhau Patil Road in Bopodi are using nearby open ground as public toilet facility. This was after the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) demolished a public toilet they were using for last 25 years without making any alternate …
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), which has been under criticism for delay in executing various development projects, has however received praise from the World Bank for its rehabilitation of the project affected people (PAP). Municipal Commissioner Praveensinh Pardeshi had recently made a presentation of the PMC initiative at a meeting …
The National Green Corps program has been launched by the Ministry of Environment and Forests to bring about a change in the attitudes in the society through children. The program focuses on educating children about their immediate environment and impart knowledge about the eco-systems, their inter-dependence and their need for …
Pune-based NGO, Mashal, is to conduct GIS-based biometric socio-economic survey in Dharavi, for the first time. Based on natural and topographical divisions, Dharavi has been divided into 12 segments. Around 25 teams are being deployed to carry out the survey. Officials say it is important to conduct a biometric survey …
could the old newspapers piling up in the storeroom help treat waste water? Experiments have shown how newspapers can be used to remove heavy metals from industrial waste water. A study at the National Metallurgical Laboratory in Jamshedpur and Pune's National Chemical Laboratory tested the cellulose in the pulp used …
www.pttf.net/go/Managed by the Pune Traffic and Transportation Forum (PTTF), an ngo for sustainable transportation policy, the website promotes sustainable traffic practices. It asks the public to use public transport. "The public transport's per-capita usage of resources, per-capita pollution and per-capita accident rate is much lesser than a private vehicle,' says …
in a new application for disease-fighting vitamin c, scientists have used it to assemble fibre bundles of gold, silver and platinum nanoparticles. Such bundles are used in new-age medicine to produce sensors for disease detection, enhancement of optical imaging and even manufacture of cheaper and pollution-checking catalytic converters. Researchers from …
The us Trade and Development Agency has recently awarded a us $296,000 grant to Pune to reduce the city's vehicular air pollution through innovative measures. The grant will fund a project to retrofit diesel-fuelled buses with technologies designed to reduce toxic emissions as well as test low-sulfur diesel. Launched in …
a team of scientists at the National Chemical Laboratory (ncl), Pune, has succeeded in propagating the medicinally important tree Calophyllum inophyllum (common names: sultan champa /laurel tree) by tissue culture. Different parts of the tree have been used in traditional medicine to treat ailments like rheumatism, haemorrhage and skin diseases. …
The Indian poultry industry is deeply segmented. With an annual growth rate of 15 per cent, the industry ranges from big players using modern hatching and rearing techniques to small farmers who raise minuscule stocks in traditional manner. Pune-based Venkateshwara Hatcheries, which has about 60 per cent market share, is …
Letter from Maharashtra Pollution Control Board to the Secretary, MOEF on the environmental clearance for a tourism project/hill station in Mulshi and Velhe Talukas of Pune District, Maharashtra dated July 15 2005.
