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 …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Tushar Goswami Vs Union of India & Others dated 15/12/2023. Grievance in the application is against Tent City project in the riverbed of Ganga at Varanasi in 100 acres area for commercial purpose to the detriment of flora and fauna …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Rajendra Prasad Gupta Vs State of Uttar Pradesh dated 28/08/2023. In the petition, the complaint is regarding discharge of domestic waste water and untreated industrial waste water into river Ganga at Varanasi. The Tribunal by order May 24, 2022 had …
Varanasi, from where PM Modi had won in 2014, is witnessing a rise in the number of people suffering from allergies and respiratory problems due to a "lot" of construction in the city, the report said. The air quality in Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Lok Sabha constituency, is ranked …
The action plan also includes expediting strategic decommissioning of old and inefficient power plants and implementation of a large-scale feebate programme from 2020 onwards Niti Aayog has proposed 15-point action plan for combating air pollution in ten most polluted cities in the country, including Delhi, Kanpur and Varanasi. The draft …
The CAG report which studied the pollution levels in Lucknow and Varanasi from 2011 to 2015 has revealed that the Gomti river is more polluted than the Ganga. The Gomti river in Lucknow is even more polluted than the Ganga in Varanasi, a CAG report has revealed. The CAG, which …
Gomti is more polluted than Ganga, reveals the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) report that was tabled in Vidhan Sabha on Thursday. It also said that Lucknow air is more polluted than Varanasi, and Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) is conducting inadequate monitoring of air pollution. The …
Delhi, Faridabad and Varanasi have the poorest air quality among the 32 Indian cities which are connected to the web-based system National Air Quality Index Portal. Howrah, Nashik and Durgapur had the cleanest air. Average AQI for the period Nov 2015 to October 2016 was released for these cities by …
Varanasi: The city's air quality deteriorated sharply on Wednesday with maintaining hazardous trend for the third consecutive day with a 202-point rise in pollution levels within 24 hours. As per the real-time Air Quality Index recorded at Orderly Bazar station of Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) on Wednesday, the city's …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi has made its way to the list of 27 new smart cities announced by the Urban Development Ministry on Tuesday. Varanasi is one of the three cities, others being Agra and Kanpur, from Uttar Pradesh which goes to the polls next year, …
One of the first announcements of Prime Minister Narendra Modi pertained to cleaning the Ganga. But this is not the first time an attempt has been made to clean the river. River cleaning schemes initiated in 1974, 1985, 1993, 1996 and 2008-09 have been monumental failures. While the Prime Minister's …
Varanasi: The Varanasi Municipal Corporation (VMC) has decided to use solar energy in its offices across the five zones and 14 sub-zones. In this regard, a memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between VMC and Renewable Energy Corporation of India (RECI). VMC is the first municipal corporation of the state …
VARANASI: After energy efficient LED bulbs the Purvanchal Vidyut Vitaran Nigam Limited in collaboration with the Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) is going to provide energy efficient fans under National Energy Efficient Fan Pragramme in eastern UP. Talking to reporters on Monday, the PuVVNL managing director Ajay Kumar Singh the …
Varanasi: The city is suffering insanitation woes as the municipal waste has not been transported to the dumping site in Ramna locality for last four days. The villagers of Ramna are protesting against dumping of garbage after heaps of garbage caught fire causing thick smoke in the area for many …
VARANASI: To prevent the majestic ghats from caving in, the experts of Geological Survey of India (GIS) and National Institute of Hydrology (NIH) will assess the measures to check erosion on the left bank of river Ganga induced due to siltation on right bank during their visit to the city …
Varanasi: Close on the heels of the picture of an ADM relieving himself on the bank of the Yamuna in Allahabad was flashed in the media, the Varanasi Municipal Corporation (VMC) has decided that anybody caught relieving at ghats on the Ganga in the city would be fined Rs 500. …
Mysuru in Karnataka has retained its position of the cleanest city in India, followed by Chandigarh, whereas Dhanbad in Jharkhand and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency, Varanasi, are among the 10 least clean cities. These are the findings of the first-ever cleanliness ranking of cities since Swachh Bharat Mission was …
NEW DELHI: Solar power plants at six airports have been delayed due to wrangling between the Airports Authority of India (AAI) and power distribution companies over net metering arrangements. Net metering enables residential and commercial customers who generate electricity from sunlight to feed whatever power they do not use into …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Vardhaman Kaushik Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 06/01/2016 regarding diseases as a result of pollution majorly generated by air pollution. Gujarat, Bihar, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, Odisha, Chhatisgarh, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Jharkhand would file a comprehensive affidavit stating …
Varanasi: The Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will have to spend time in severely polluted atmosphere full of particulate matters in the air during his visit to Varanasi. Abe along with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi is arriving here on December 12. The city's air quality index (AQI) was 404, …
Multivariate statistical techniques, such as cluster analysis and principal component analysis (PCA), were applied for evaluation of spatial variations and interpretation of large complex water quality data set of the Ganga river basin, generated during one year (2013-2014) monitoring of eight water parameters at seven different sites. Hierarchical cluster analysis …
