Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Salboni Apartment Owner’s Association Vs State of West Bengal & Others dated 15/05/2025. The matter related to restoration of the Salboni Jheel, Kolkata, West Bengal. The NGT directed the West Bengal Pollution Control Board to place …
Pulmonary responses of children chronically exposed to ambient air pollution in Calcutta have been investigated. A total number of 153 children from Calcutta and 116 from rural West Bengal in the age group of 6-17 yr were included in this study. Respiratory symptom complex, sputum cytology and micronucleus (MN) count …
travelling in the comfort of an air-conditioned ( ac ) car has far worse implications on health than cycling or even walking. According to a recent study conducted by the West Bengal Pollution Control Board, people cosseted in their ac four-wheelers are exposed to as much as five times the …
Nine districts in West Bengal, India, and 42 districts in Bangladesh have arsenic levels in groundwater above the World Health Organization maximum permissible limit of 50
In some areas of Bangladesh and West Bengal, concentrations of As in groundwater exceed guide concentrations, set internationally and nationally at 10 to 50 ?g l?1 and may reach levels in the mg l?1 range. The As derives from reductive dissolution of Fe oxyhydroxide and release of its sorbed As. …
the marine life in the Sunderban region of West Bengal faces increasing threat owing to indiscriminate exploitation of bio-organisms and intense commercial activities in the neighbouring areas. This was brought to the notice of the state government by marine scientist Amalesh Chowdhury. He said that a recent survey of the …
the West Bengal Pollution Control Board ( wbpcb ) has banned the setting up of new businesses, including hospitals and nursing homes in Calcutta and Howrah. The wbpcb has come out with three lists totalling 218 industry categories and asked the Calcutta and Howrah Municipal Corporations not to grant licences …
west bengal's largest cluster of islands, the Sagar island, is soon going to be powered by solar energy. The island, where it is not possible to provide grid electricity, is run by diesel generators sets whose pollution is affecting the region's fragile ecosystem. The first step towards electrification through solar …
an ambitious aquaculture project is on the anvil at Nayachar in Haldia, West Bengal. The state government hopes that the project will generate employment opportunities for the locals and give a fillip to the tourist inflow. The state government has embarked on this project because industries coming up in this …
the West Bengal government will initiate a plan to save the Sunderbans, the world's largest delta. Plans are afoot to set up Sunderban Protection Committees in every block of the region. Thereafter, representatives from each block would coordinate the plan at the central level. The problems that afflict the area …
india's first mass arsenic removal community-based programme to provide safe drinking water to more than 400 affected villages of West Bengal will begin in October. The Rs 9-crore project will be executed by the All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health ( aiih&ph;). A large chunk of aid will …
The West Bengal government has revoked its order banning private non-commercial vehicles which do not conform to Euro I norms by July 1, 1999, and Euro II by April 2000, from plying within the Calcutta Metropolitan Area (cma). The state government had earlier passed the order without directions from the …
the top five states in India that have major discharges of untreated domestic wastewater are Maharashtra, Gujarat, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. According to a recent survey by the Union ministry of environment and forests, these five states generated more than 63 per cent of the total wastewater and …
The West Bengal government has decided to challenge a high court order doing away with transit permits for inter-state rice export, said Kalimuddin Shams, state food and civil supply minister. He said rice mill owners were taking advantage of the high court order to export rice to other states and …
the World Bank ( wb ) has cleared the second instalment of its assistance to a solar power project in West Bengal. For the first time in the world, a 26-kilowatt (kw) solar power plant with photo-voltaic cells is being set up and one or two villages are being covered …
THE West Bengal government is planning to build a multi-layered underground aquarium and an exhibition centre at Victoria square. The project has already been cleared by the Calcutta Municipal Corporation and is awaiting final sanction.The construction will to start in December and is expected to be completed in two years. …
THE ecosystem of the world's largest mangrove, the Sundarbans in West Bengal, was falling apart until local forest authorities took up conservation projects to educate the locals and wean them away from environment-damaging activities. As the residents of the 1,000-odd villages in the Sajnekhali area, some 120 km from the …
Harvest of terror Come harvest time and tense villagers begin preparing for the next elephant raid Like the other farmers, Durlabh Rajbhansu is afraid. As harvesting season approaches, the people of Nopam, a tiny village near Tezpur in northern Assam, steel themselves for the worst. For the last 10 years, …
Twenty-eight imams of Calcutta recently refused to appear before the high court for the third consecutive time in the case against use of microphones during the call for prayers. The issue is already snowballing into a big controversy. Justice B P Banerjee of the Calcutta high court, said, "Some political …
