Committee Report in OA No.46/2018 (WZ) (Joint Forest Management Committee V/s The Principal Secretary, Revenue & Forest Deptt. & Ors.) There is environmental destruction caused due to dumping of debris of the rocks cut for establishment of statue of Jain Tirthankara, Rishabhanatha. The statue has been carved out of the …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench) in the matter of Vishwas More Vs Krishi Utpanna Bazar Samitee, Pimpalgaon Baswant dated 18/03/2015 regarding sewage on account of use of sheds by large number of stockiest/farmers for storage, sale and auctioning of tomatoes in the area of market yard …
NASHIK: The zilla parishad will start a week-long drive from March 16 to spread awareness about clean drinking water. The drive aims to sensitise people on the backdrop of International Water Day that is observed on March 22. The drive will also address the issue of red marking of the …
The divisional commissioner, CEO of zilla parishad and other senior officials from agriculture and other government departments on Monday visited various parts of the taluka to review the work of Jalyukta Shivar, a water conservation campaign that began last month. As many as 229 villages were identified where water conservation …
Red clay bricks are being used for several constructions in the city including the district collectorate in violation of the orders of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) instructing the use of fly ash bricks for all government and non-government agencies. Sunil Mendhekar, who has been crusading for the use of …
The Pune bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has accepted the action plan of the district collector on the usage of fly ash bricks. The tribunal bench comprising Justices VR Kingaonkar and Ajay Deshpande accepted the plan while hearing the application of Nashik Fly Bricks Association against the ministry …
Students from various colleges in the city on Tuesday pledged to avoid and reduce the use of plastic materials in college premises and daily life. The resolutions were made during a day-long event called Sinhastha vighnaharta organised jointly by Dr Moonje institute of Management and Computer studies and Akhil Bharatiya …
NASHIK: The Pune bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday asked the municipal commissioner and the district collector to come up with an action plan for Kumbh mela for managing solid waste. The divisional bench of NGT comprising Justice V R Kingaonkar and judicial member Ajay Deshpande passed …
The district forest department on Monday organized a number of seminars, exhibitions and awareness drives at the Nandur Madhyameshwar bird sanctuary to mark the World Wetlands Day. Environment activists, experts and forest officials who attended the programme emphasized the need to protect the wetlands and the birds residing there. The …
NASHIK: The water and sanitation department of the zilla parishad has completed 67% testing of the water samples from its sources for the chemical content in them. As many as 1,441 water samples across the 15 talukas of the district were reported to have chemical content above the permissible limits. …
The National Green Tribunal, Western Zone, has asked the state pollution control board to send a copy of the proposal sent to the government offices on using fly ash in two weeks during the hearing of an application by Nashik Fly Bricks Association against the ministry of environment and forests. …
The Bombay high court has referred to the chief justice a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by environmental activists against government departments concerned and the promoter of the seaplane services proposed from Juhu to Gangapur dam. Activists Jitendra Bhave and Jagbir Singh had filed the PIL 10 days ago against …
Garbage is piling up across the city every passing day and once again questions are raised about the efficacy of the civic body's solid waste management plant. The plant has been under the scanner for the past few years for defunct machinery, while corporators are opposed to the treatment of …
It's been a year since a delegation of 25 officials from the German government's nodal agency, Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), visited the civic body's compost plant for a pilot project involving the conversion of waste to energy, but the project is yet to kick start. The project, which will …
Residents across the city have complained about the lack of clean public toilets and have demanded that the Nashik Municipal Corporation take up the issue. "There are not enough public toilets in the city and it is a problem especially for women," said Vijayalakshmi Manenikar, director of a private school. …
NASHIK: The civic body on Wednesday sought a week's time from the Bombay high court to study the report prepared by the chief conservator of forest, Nashik region, on the hacking of 2,400 trees. As per the directions of the HC based on public interest litigation (PIL) filed by Nashik …
NASHIK: Environment activists in the city want removal of all advertisement boards nailed on trees within seven days and has written to the civic body municipal commissioner with their demand. The activists have attached a copy of the order passed by the principal bench of the National Green Tribunal, New …
The Panchavati division of the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) on Thursday collected three tonnes of 'nirmalya' (puja material) from the banks Godavari river after the Chhath Puja celebrations came to an end. "We had engaged 33 sanitary employees on the riverbanks for the clean-up act. The waste we collected will …
NASHIK: The water resource department has decided to send its engineers to the Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MBDA) in Australia to study the water resources and water distribution system there. The MBDA model is to be implemented in the Nashik region as a pilot project and it will subsequently be replicated …
NASHIK: The Bombay High Court has asked Godavari Gatarikaran Virodhi Manch, an NGO that had filed a public interest litigation on river pollution, to make Indiabulls and Nashik Thermal Power Station (NTPS) a party in the case and ask them to appear on November 7. The court said though these …
For the third consecutive year, the reports of the regional office of the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) show no deterioration in the quality of river water during the Ganesh festival. The reports were compiled and released last week. Like every year, the MPCB tested the quality of water before, …
