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 …
Civic Body Continues To Collect Mixed Garbage Action Sought Against Those Who Don't Separate Dry, Wet Waste The garbage crisis may have been tackled for now, but the much larger issues confronting solid waste management in the city are yet to be dealt with, say experts. For 14 years, the …
The civic body is considering a proposal to provide ‘special subsidy’ of Rs 15,000 per house for housing scheme for urban poor as the developers and non governmental organizations, which are responsible for the construction of these houses, have expressed their inability to complete the project due to cost escalation. …
PUNE: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) standing committee approved two %new garbage processing plants on Tuesday, barely hours after Uruli Devachi and Phursungi villagers ended their six-day agitation against garbage dumping in their village limits. Municipal officials said that the total garbage the city produced had doubled in the last …
The Pune Municipal Corporation has received deadline of December 31 to resolve the garbage dumping issue in Uruli Devachi and Phursungi. Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan Monday night held a meeting with residents of Uruli Devachi and Phursungi to solve ongoing garbage disposal issue. “The civic body has been asked to …
Citizens' group Nagrik Chetna Manch said on Sunday that the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has neglected taking important measures, such as waste segregation at source, which could have averted the current garbage crisis. The Manch said that it had made repeated appeals to the corporation for the last three years …
Decision Taken After Protests By Model Colony Residents The proposal to cut down about 50 trees in the Model colony area will be scrapped following protests from the citizens. The decision was taken at a meeting between the citizens and the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Tuesday . “A group …
Sound levels in Pimpri Chinchwad were higher than permissible limits in all parts of the city in 2013-14, the environment status report (ESR) for the year has found. The civic environment department has recommended creating noise barriers around construction sites and increasing tree cover, to reduce sound pollution. According to …
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) can stake its claim to the central government’s funds to complete its water, sewage and waste management projects since the BJP government may launch a scheme for renewal of 500 urban habitations in the country. The union ministry for urban development had organised a two-day …
The city’s garbage has acquired political significance as a fight between Purandar Shiv Sena MLA Vijay Shivtare and NCP MP Supriya Sule hots up. The Shiv Sena has warned that the civic body’s garbage vehicles will not be allowed to enter the village after August 8 because the civic body …
PUNE: Pune city is losing its green cover, thanks to the increasing number of slums and conversion of agriculture land into non agriculture for construction purpose. The issue of impact on gree cover has been highlighted in the latest Environment Status Report (ESR) of Pune Municipal Corporation. The ESR has …
Civic Body Observed 26 Localities In City Twice A Week Nearly all the areas in the city , including commercial and residential premises, suffer from noise pollution hazards because the levels are more than the permissible limits, the Pune Municipal Corporation's (PMC) environment status report for 2013-14 has stated. Increased …
If the central government has its way , citizens may have to start paying for the waste generated in households. The government of India has drafted a manual for municipal solid waste management to help municipal bodies to manage their waste. According to the 74th amendment to the Constitution, urban …
Pune: If you are permanent citizen of Pune city, then you are staying in an area which is high risk zone of Ultra Violet rays. For the first time ever, Pune Municipal Corporation has come up with UV rays index in city's Environment Status report (ESR) for the year 2013-14 …
Report Confirms Concerns Raised By Experts In The Past The Environment Status Report (ESR) of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) for 2013-14 has confirmed what environmentalists and experts have said all along -expanding the city limits would strain Pune's infrastructure and in turn lead to serious environmental degradation. The report …
Environmentalists have questioned the utility of sewage treatment plants (STPs) after the draft environment status report (ESR) of the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) showed a rise in pollution levels in Pavana, Indrayani and Mula rivers. Vikas Patil, environmental activist and president of Nadi Vikas Manch, said there are many …
With a rise in number of dengue patients, scientists at the National Institute of Virology (NIV) have urged Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to send blood samples of suspected dengue cases within five days of infection to make it easier to identify the serotype. “Identifying the serotype is challenging if samples …
Union minister for environment Prakash Javadekar said here on Sunday that all cities across the country will be required to produce a city environment plan that will deal with issues of pollution and solid waste management, among others. “Every city will have to produce its own environmental plan. We are …
The state government's resolution to extend the slum regularization cut-off date from January 1, 1995 to January 1, 2000 is unlikely to help curb proliferation of new slums in the city , say civic officials and urban planners. A government resolution (GR) extending the cutoff date as well as rules …
Bharat Stage IV (BS IV) fuel would be available in the rural areas of Pune, and Thane from April 1, 2016. The fuel is available in Pune and Mumbai, besides Ahmednagar and Solapur in Maharashtra, and a few others in the country. The ministry of petroleum and natural gas has …
280 Cases Recorded This Month, Virus Has Claimed Two Lives This Year Pune city has reported 16 dengue cases every day during July. On Thursday , 38 fresh cases of dengue surfaced -the highest recorded in a single day this year. So far 280 cases were reported this month, of …
