Pune (T)

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding dumping of waste in a canal in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 29/05/2025

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 …

Surface ozone variability in the urban and nearby rural locations of tropical India

Surface ozone variability at Pune (an urban location) and nearby rural locations has been studied using KI solution chemical method. The measurement showed well-marked diurnal cycle of ozone concentration with minimum at sunrise and maximum at noon hours. Simultaneous measurements of humidity and temperature along with ozone suggest that the …

World Bank rider on BRTS loan

Pune Tells civic body to seek public opinion on non-motorised transport component The Centre has expressed satisfaction over the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) pilot project, struggling for completion since its 2006 launch. But the World Bank (WB), which is funding the non-motorised transport (NMT) part of the BRTS, has …

WB approves Rs 160 cr for non-motorised transport on BRTS lanes

Pune The World Bank on Thursday approved Rs 160 crore to the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) for executing the non-motorised transport projects on the pilot Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) lanes along with showing interest in the ambitious Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) initiative by the civic administration for improving the …

Northern part to get regular water supply

Pune Water woes of the residents of the northern part of the city are likely to end soon, as they will start receiving regular water supply from next week. The Pune Municipal Corporation is currently carrying out necessary trials at the Holkar water pumping station. This new pumping station would …

CYG Pune: Green School award goes to the Bishops

Pune, December 1 The principals and representatives from over 90 schools that participated in the third Commonwealth Youth Games, Pune 2008 school programme had gathered, along with the CYG Pune team, for the announcement of the CYG Pune 2008 Green School Award. Schools across the city had participated in the …

Pune is clean

Because it sends its garbage to pollute a nearby village SINCE 1983, all the municipal garbage from the city of Pune in Maharashtra has travelled 12 km to be dumped in the village of Urali-Devachi. More than 1,000 tonnes each day. Spread across 43 hectares, the dump pollutes the area. …

Green conviction

Pune, November 13 Kids of APRA not only sacrifice their holidays to make the environment green and clean, but also set example for elders to follow The future flag bearers of the society have, it seems, taken their responsibility a bit too seriously and have set to work even before …

Enough of civic garbage: villagers want dump moved

Pune, November 09 For years, people on the outskirts of Pune have been seeing their villages being turned into a dumping ground for the city

Garbage disposal facility inaugurated at NCL

Pune, November 6 S Sivaram, director, National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), inaugurated the garbage composting facility in the laboratory campus here on Thursday. As per the new guidelines of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), garbage generated by institutions and housing societies should be segregated into wet and dry garbage and the disposal …

Crematorium mishap: share blame, civic body tells pollution board

Pune, November 04 The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), while admitting to its shortcomings, has trained guns on the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) for not sharing the responsibility for the accident that killed seven at the biomedical waste disposal plant in Kailash crematorium on September 11. The MPCB is the …

Corporators lament civic bodys lack of care for environment

Pune, October 22 Expressing concern over the deteriorating environment scenario of Pune, majority of the corporators in the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Wednesday demanded to stop the farce of publishing Environment Status Report (ESR) every year, if nothing concrete was going to happen to really save the environment. The …

In three weeks, 62 dengue cases in Pimpri

Pune, October 21 Nine cases reported on Tuesday, malaria cases show decline. PCMC admn under fire With nine more dengue cases surfacing in Pimpri-Chinchwad on Tuesday, the total number of persons bitten by the aedes egyptia mosquito have risen to 62 from October 1. In the same 21- day period, …

Civic body set to start BRTS work on Airport-Balewadi stretch

Pune, October 16 After developing the road from Airport to Balewadi, the Pune Municipal Corporation is all set to introduce Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) on the route.

For a green house

after Pune, which is reaping the benefits of an eco-housing scheme launched last year, Mumbai now can do the same. The decks stand cleared for the launch of an eco-housing scheme in Mumbai, which offers financial incentives to both builders and consumers. Prepared by Pune-based Science and Technology Park and …

Campaign to replace bulbs with compact fluorescent lamps

Pune, September 30 In order to promote Compact Fluorescent Lamp (CFL) and phase out ordinary bulbs to reduce carbon emission, two city-based NGOs

Bangalore Development Authority team visits BRTS

Pune, September 24 A team from the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) on Monday visited the Bus Rapid Transport System (BRTS) in Pune along Swargate and Hadapsar. BRTS route is being planned in Bangalore as part of the Ring Road proposal.

City hospitals find two ways to keep clean

Pune, September 24 Medical waste packed offto Satara Pune, for long struggling with its garbage, has found a solution to get rid of its hospital waste, at least. For the last couple of days, the city

PTA hampered by lack of experts: NGOs

Pune, September 23 Pointing out the lack of sufficient experts in the Pune Tree Authority (PTA) not providing enough voice in stopping the loss of green cover, non-governmental organisations Pune Tree Watch and Parisar have urged Municipal Commissioner Praveensinh Pardeshi to appoint an expert in the vacant post in the …

Flooded again: nightmare will last till rehab project is complete

Pune, September 21 A day after floodwaters swept into hutments in Pimpri and Sangvi, irrigation officials ruled out rehabilitation support to the dwellers as the slums were encroaching the riverbed. On Saturday, it was the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation that had to evacuate people from the flooded hutments in Sangvi and …

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