Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Taking note of pollution and traffic congestion during functions at banquet halls, farmhouses and hotels here, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has formed a committee to stop activities that lead to degradation of the environment. It has also asked the committee to prepare an action plan in this regard within …
With the east corporation trying to reduce the pollution footprint of the city’s only functional slaughterhouse, the Ghazipur landfill site and its surrounding areas are likely to get respite from one of the most polluting forms of waste. The Ghazipur slaughterhouse, which processes over 5,000 livestocks in a four-hour batch, …
NGT had earlier constituted a committee and asked the Delhi Jal Board to submit report on discharge from each drain that joins Yamuna. New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal on Monday took Delhi Jal Board (DJB) to task for spending money on Yamuna without its permission and directed it not …
Not much was learned about the way pollution behaved during the trial phase of odd-even in January except that the air quality monitoring plan will have to change. Learning from mistakes made in the first round of odd-even, the Delhi government will be expanding its air quality monitoring during round …
Data from the Delhi Pollution Control Committee’s (DPCC’s) monitoring stations showed that at Punjabi Bagh, in the last 24 hours, a peak of 291 micrograms per cubic metre of particulate matter (PM) 10 was observed. Air quality in Delhi — often called the most polluted city in the world — …
The cut in vehicular emission due to rolling out of the odd-even scheme has resulted “definitive decline” in levels of PM2.5 pollutants, Delhi Government said today while claiming success of the restrictions unveiled on January 1. The Government said data of pollutants collected from over 55 locations showed a clear …
Delhi Pollution Control Committee allows plant to continue its operations in the Capital After the hullabaloo regarding closure of the Badarpur Thermal Power Station (BTPS) for flouting emission norms, the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has finally allowed the plant to continue its operations in the Capital. The decision comes …
An NGO has moved the National Green Tribunal seeking execution of an order by which the green panel had directed DPCC to take action against stainless steel pickling industries in Wazirpur here, which are not complying with mandatory pollution standards. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar had …
Under attack from experts and civil society organizations for its alleged bid to “validate“ the city's air quality stats, the Centre has indicated that it will allow Delhi Pollution Control Committee to release its real-time data but with a rider. According to CPCB, it will also vet the data generated …
NEW DELHI: Under attack from experts and civil society organizations for its alleged bid to "validate" the city's air quality stats, the Centre has indicated that it will allow Delhi Pollution Control Committee to release its real-time data but with a rider. According to CPCB, it will also vet the …
The National Green Tribunal has hit out at the Delhi government for failing to take steps to implement the measures the tribunal had set out to improve the capital's poor air quality. The tribunal also directed the Arvind Kejriwal government to submit a report on the proposal to ban diesel …
The National Green Tribunal today directed the Delhi government to submit a report on the proposal to ban all diesel vehicles, which are more than 10 years old, in the national capital. A bench headed NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar also directed the city government to submit the exact number …
Expressing concern over burning of tyres and plastics at Gokalpur scrap market here, the National Green Tribunal has directed Delhi Pollution Control Committee to find out the possibility of recycling the waste tyre materials, which are being discarded by the shop owners, for purposes of energy production. A bench, headed …
The Delhi government has done away with mandatory consent from pollution control committee and `trade licence' from the municipal authority for projects that fall under the category of small and medium enterprises. The Arvind Kejriwal-led government said these steps were taken to increase `ease of doing business' in Delhi. However, …
The air on Monday around India Gate was relatively clean, thanks to unexpected rain during the Republic Day parade. Even though the PM2.5 (fine, respirable particle) level was high between 6 and 6.30am--at about 200 micrograms per cubic metre, it had begun to fall by 9.30am, at 11am it was …
Like air pollution, level of noise pollution is also found to be on the rise in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR). The government, however, admitted in the Lok Sabha that officials designated as the authority for the maintenance of ambient air quality standards of noise have not been …
NEW DELHI: Inadequate and unreliable data from government agencies has led to individual researchers using battery-operated portable devices that measure one's personal exposure to air pollution. This method reflects not only the alarming fact that exposure to air pollution in Delhi, however brief, could sometimes be 10-20 times the safe …
With the menace of sand mining mafia growing rampant in the Delhi NCR region and after receiving a rap from the National Green Tribunal on the issue, the city administration is set to constitute a special task force to crack down on the sand mafia, wrecking havoc along the Yamuna …
