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 …
PUNE: Municipal commissioner Kunal Kumar has directed the Pune Municipal Corporation's garden department to conduct a joint hearing of the roads department and NGOs after the PMC's proposal of cutting 105 trees on Aundh Road, between Pune University junction and Kasturba Vasahat, for road widening work was met with heavy …
PUNE: Waste materials like thermocol, plastic carry bags below 50 microns and aluminium food packets will turn into handicrafts thanks to a pilot project taken up by eCoexist and Studio Alternatives as part of the 'Green Idea' scheme supported by the state government. eCoexist and Studio Alternatives will launch a …
PUNE: Just as the urban development ministry will assist cities with population of 10 lakh plus in setting up the urban metropolitan transport authority (UMTA), it will also help them have a traffic management and information control centre (TMICC) of their own. Setting up of the traffic management centre is …
In a major relief to the long-suffering residents of the twin villages of Uruli Devachi and Phursungi, the National Green Tribunal has prohibited the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) from any dumping of the city’s urban waste there till December this year. People of these villages have been engaged in a …
PUNE: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) bench in Pune has asked the state government to consider devising a policy for use of fire crackers at public places during private marriage processions, religious events, festivities or election result celebrations. "A committee, including the secretary to environment department, member secretary of the …
PUNE: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) bench in Pune has restrained Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) from offloading garbage at Uruli Devachi's dumping site unless the veracity of the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board's (MPCB) authorization for such dumping activity till December 2015, is established by the divisional commissioner. In an ad …
PUNE: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has constituted a committee to carry out a survey of Ramnadi and asked the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority (PMRDA) to ensure that no construction is permitted on either side of the river bank without the committee's approval, till …
PUNE: Expressing concern about the city and the region losing its wetlands to untamed urbanisation, experts have demanded that urban ecology should be a part of the city's infrastructure development plan. "Urbanisation in Pune is a pervasive and rapidly-growing form of change in land use. Especially, the encroachment around water …
PUNE: Persistent Foundation in association with NGO Janwani and Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) formally launched the 'Zero Garbage Project' in Prabhag no. 11' (Gokhale Nagar-Angalwadi) recently. Partnering with PMC, Janwani has been implementing the 'Zero Garbage Project' in 20 Prabhags of the city since 2010. Under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), …
A group of 11 residents of Urali Devachi and Phursungi have filed a petition with the western zonal bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) about how the garbage depot in the vicinity of their villages continues to operate in violation of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 and the Municipal …
PUNE: Experts have cautioned citizens against the rise in mosquito-borne diseases after Wednesday's heavy downpour. Pointing at likely accumulation of water in unused or discarded objects, they said: "This may result in new breeding sites for Aedes aegypti mosquito that can spread dengue and chikungunya among other diseases." The number …
PUNE: The civic body will approach the Supreme Court against the National Green Tribunal's (NGT) recent order of demolishing a recreational facility built by the civic body at Sambhaji Garden. The facility is also used by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) as office space. A PMC circular issued in 1999 …
PUNE: The civic standing committee on Tuesday approved six small garbage processing units to be set up in Bhavani Peth area. A private company will install four units with a capacity of processing five metric tonne garbage daily and two units with a capacity of three metric tonne. The company …
There is another agitation brewing in Phursungi, where the villagers had allowed the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to continue dumping of waste after preventing it for months. The reason is lack of any forward movement in the civic administration’s proposal to set up several processing plants of smaller capacity within …
PUNE: The problem of milk adulterated with sugar, glucose powder and edible oil persists in Maharashtra, with most cases registered in Pune in the last financial year. Food and drug administration officials have so far filed 36 criminal cases and recovered over Rs 25 lakh as penalty for various violations …
The district administration’s request for more stone quarries has led the State Expert Appraisal Committee (SEAC) to direct them to measure the air quality at sites before seeking for a green signal. With stone crushers likely to cause more air pollution, the SEAC has particularly asked the administration to carry …
The Bombay high court has directed the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to start and complete the slum rehabilitation scheme for the Hirabaug colony here by December 31, 2017. Eligible slum-dwellers be given rehabilitation tenements as per the decision by the slum rehabilitation authority (SRA), the court has ordered. On April …
A recent directive from the Centre to ensure that construction and demolition waste is recycled hasn't shaken the civic body yet to crackdown on the massive dumping of this waste on river beds and nullahs. In a meeting with state environment and forest ministers in New Delhi recently, the central …
Green activists on Tuesday said they would approach the National Green Tribunal as the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has continued to dump debris on the banks of Mutha river in violation of a Supreme Court order. On Monday, green activist Sanjay Bhosale, who was one of the petitioners of the …
The National Green Tribunal has put severe restrictions on live bands or DJ music, dancing and other noisy celebrations at marriages, violation of which could invite police action, an activist said on Saturday. The NGT West Zone bench comprising Justice Vikas R. Kingaonkar, Judicial Member and Dr. Ajay Deshpande, Expert …
