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 …
Despite the claims of health department, the number of dengue cases is increasing alarmingly in the State capital. The number of positive cases in the Dehradun has mounted to 204. However on Tuesday no report of Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) cases arrived in the district health department. The reports …
Notwithstanding increasing number of dengue cases in the State capital, the district medical and health department appears in a non-active mode. On Tuesday eight new cases of the disease were reported after the Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) tests of these patients were found positive. The number of cases in …
DEHRADUN: The state capital has been selected by the Centre for implementing an ultra-modern sanitation plan, for which a meeting of Dehradun Municipal Corporation officials was held on Monday with officials of Amsterdam-based reengineering firm Royal Haskoning. The ministry of urban development plans to use the project to achieve the …
Uttarakhand capital Dehradun is placed poorly at 26th position among the 28 capital cities surveyed for Swachh Bharat rankings. Karnataka capital Bengaluru tops the list, followed by Kerala capital Thiruvananthapuram while Sikkim capital Gangtok stands third. The survey conducted during 2014-15 was commissioned by the Union Ministry of Urban Development …
Finally, a big respite has come for residents of Dehradun city, especially of the Sahastradhara area who have been living a miserable life near the trenching ground of the Dehradun Municipal Corporation (DMC). After a long struggle of eight years, the state government yesterday gave the DMC approval to go …
Out of its six housing projects for rehabilitating the urban poor of the city under the Centre's JNNURM scheme, the Dehradun Municipal Corporation could start construction only in two, while three were cancelled as land could not be acquired. The fate of the last hangs in the balance. What's more, …
The pledge by local residents to celebrate a pollution-free Diwali went in vain as crackers were burst recklessly in a number of residential areas in Dehradun. The Uttarakhand Environment Protection and Pollution Control Board (UEPPCB), recorded the air pollution at Clock Tower at 218.12 respirable suspended particulate matter (RSPM) and …
As in past years, the Uttarakhand Environment Protection and Pollution Control Board (UEPPCB) will be measuring the noise and air pollution levels in Dehradun during the Deepawali festivities. However, despite there being talks in the public about shunning noisy crackers and using Indian products during the celebrations, the Supreme Court …
Despite regular claims of an intensive anti-dengue campaign in the city by the health department new cases of dengue are continuing to surface with alarming regularity. With eight new samples of fever patients turning out positive on Tuesday the total number of dengue cases in the district has reached 90. …
Waste Warriors, a local NGO, has joined hands with Microsoft and Nokia to conduct a revolutionary educational programme for schools named ‘Create to Inspire’. Seventy schools in Dehradun have been chosen for participation in the six-month programme. The focus of the initiative, fully funded by Microsoft, is to provide guidance …
Dehradun, once known as the city of grey heads and green hedges, is losing its greenery. Face-saving efforts on the part of agencies tasked with the beautification of the city have also failed to yield results. In Uttarakhand, Dehradun is considered to be the fastest growing city with rampant urbanisation …
DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand's capital will see a blanket ban on the use of polythene bags by July 17, and violators will have to cough up steep spot fine of up to Rs 5,000. An order to this effect was passed earlier this week. This was city municipal commissioner Harak Singh Rawat's …
Traffic congestion and rising vehicular pollution are considered to be among the major factors marring the environment in the once clean and green Dehradun. While the number of vehicles continues to increase in the State capital, there are many who use bicycles due to the varied benefits of cycling for …
Pollution in the once clean and green Doon has become a cause for concern when it comes to public health. According to the Chief Medical Officer Dr Gurpal Singh, accumulation of garbage, improper sewage system, use of pesticides and other chemicals to increase agricultural yield affects humans adversely. Accumulation of …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of R.S. ChauhanVs. State of Uttrakhand & Ors. dated 11/02/2014 regarding construction of STP in Municipal Corporation, Dehradun, Uttrakhand. NGT has asked the Municipal Corporation to measure the flow in the drains which have been pointed out by the Counsel appearing …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of R.S. ChauhanVs. State of Uttrakhand & Ors. dated 22/01/2014 regarding construction of STP in Municipal Corporation, Dehradun, Uttrakhand. The Learned Counsel appearing for the Corporation shall file an Affidavit as to what is the distance between STP and the river …
It is a multipurpose project, which would also provide irrigation and drinking water facilities to Delhi and other northern states such as Rajasthan, Haryana and UP. With the Uttarakhand government keen on constructing the 300 Mw multipurpose Lakhwar project on the river Yamuna, the state Planning Commission has come up …
About 62% of metropolitans in the high-income-group bracket buy organic, an increase of 95% in the last five years. There has been a major shift towards organic products, especially fruit and vegetables in the metropolitan cities as about 62 per cent of metropolitans in the high-income-group bracket buy organic, an …
Navdanya, the People’s Science Institute and the Friends of Doon — all local environment protection groups — have urged Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna to immediately cancel the memorandum of understanding signed with Coca-Cola that plans to set up a unit in Vikas Nagar area near here. “We will never …
A memorandum of understanding signed between multinational beverage giant Coca Cola and Uttarakhand government to set up a Rs 600 crore bottling plant in the district has triggered protests by environmentalists who claim the project would adversely impact the hill state’s fragile ecology. Noted environmentalists Avdhash Kaushal, Anil Prakash Joshi, …
