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 …
Observing the failure to bring the Jalandhar cluster under the Solid Waste Management Project within the deadline as per the directions of National Green Tribunal, a Nakodar-based environmentalist, Gaurav Jain, who fought the case at NGT, is now panning to file a contempt case. The NGT on November 25, 2014 …
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi launching the smart city project in New Delhi recently, the Municipal Corporation of Jalandhar (MCJ) has geared up to get the city included in the project. The MCJ is trying hard to give the city a 21st-century “smart city” look, an urban-planning term for the …
In a race between 100 cities picked up from states and union territories across the country, only 20 will start their 'smart' journey this financial year. The remaining 80, in the proposed 100 smart city plan, will join the club in two equal batches of 40 each in the following …
Have installed heavy duty generators at entrance gates, violating Punjab & Haryana High Court directions In yet another glaring violation of the directions issued by the Punjab and Haryana High Court, a majority of the hospitals in the city have installed heavy duty generators at their entrance gates, causing a …
The Municipal Corporation (MC) is all set to tighten its noose around the commercial establishments that have so far failed to comply with the solid waste management system in the city. While there are more than 2,000 commercial buildings in the city, only 435 have so far tied up with …
In gross violation of the Pollution Control Board (PCB) guidelines, the Municipal Corporation (MC) authorities here were caught burning garbage at its illegal garbage collection centre inside the Burlton Park area today. Though there is a separate garbage collection centre outside the main boundary wall of Burlton Park, due to …
In the absence of a permanent executive officer and the sanitary inspector, the Nakodar municipal council has failed to follow the National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) directions about the removal of garbage from residential areas. The town has been without a permanent executive officer and the sanitary inspector for long. Due …
Hundreds of people have taken ill due to a diarrhoea outbreak in the ward number 40 of the city. Hordes of people in the Shaheed Babu Labh Singh Nagar and New Rattan Nagar areas of the city have fallen ill in January. The ward is straightaway being blamed on the …
Chandigarh, July 24: The quality of water of the Sutlej is deteriorating at a fast pace as the much-publicised Sutlej Action Plan (SAP) has failed to yield any result, said a report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India. The water of the river has been degrading by …
Parents of a five-year-old boy in Gandhi Camp area of Jalandhar city have alleged that their son died after falling ill due to drinking contaminated water supplied from the pipes of municipal corporation. Many others have also taken ill after drinking contaminated water. Illegal connections are cited as the reason …
Many lapses on the part of the industry have come to the fore during inspections by the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) in the last few days. The PPCB inspected 33 electroplating industries of Ludhiana and Jalandhar which send their effluents to Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP). It was found …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Gaurav Jain Vs. State of Punjab & Others dated 03/09/2013 regarding collection and disposal of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in Nakodar, Jallandhar.
Considering the role, impact, growth and contribution made by the city of Jalandhar to the economy, employment and productivity of the State of Punjab, the future growth and development strategy for Jalandhar needs to be viewed in the larger canvas of regional context. Therefore, the task of preparation of Master …
Jangveer Singh Punjab is set to introduce LED (light emitting diode) lighting in all five cities in the state, beginning from Ludhiana, even as the process of replacement of conventional lighting with CFL (compact fluorescent lamp) will start in a few months with Powercom, the state electricity utility, registering with …
One week, 17 deaths and over 1,000 confirmed cases. You can count the days on your fingers, but not the victims of the new public health menace -the H1N1 flu. "Its speed is without precedent," says Dr Randeep Guleria, professor of Internal Medicine at the All India Institute of Medical …
dead fish floated down two parallel canals, carrying water from the Sutlej river in western Punjab southwards to Rajasthan, for two-three days in mid-June. For a stretch of about 50 km, from Harike in Ferozepur to Faridkot, the water had turned dark and stank of sewage. The water sanitation department …
