Order of the Gauhati High Court in the matter of North East Eco Development Society Vs The State of Assam & Others dated 17/03/2025. In response to the direction given by the HC on December 18, 2024, an affidavit was filed on behalf of the government of Assam, Department of …
Mumbai The Vile Parle (E) vegetable market has become cleaner and greener in the three months since it imposed a plastic ban on itself. Since May, when the public-private trial initiative began, the BMC has noted a significant reduction in plastic wastes in the area since May. This has prevented …
Waterlogging after a brief spell of rain is still a common feature in Guwahati city, but unfortunately, more than five years have passed since former Gauhati University Vice-Chancellor Dr NK Choudhury offered a series of suggestions to the Government to deal with the problem and most of those are yet …
The fear of floods in border villages due to the erection of bandhs by Pakistan in its territory is becoming real with water accumulating in Gharana, Gulabgarh and adjoining border villages. The bandhs built by Pakistan have blocked the natural drainage of water to its territory. Rainwater as well as …
Harvesting Could Have Prevented Waterlogging: Experts New Delhi: Looking at those photographs of the flooded Dwarka underpass, if you were marvelling at the amount of water that had turned it into a swimming pool, here
Dinesh Kumar Mishra looks back at the history of floods in North Bihar and wonders what this year has in store Had the Kosi river not breached its eastern embankment at Kusaha last year, 2008 would have gone down as a drought year in North Bihar. The rains were scanty …
- Rs 6.8cr to develop Adityapur infrastructure, prevent waterlogging ANKUSH SINGH On revamp route Jamshedpur, July 29: The Adityapur Industrial Area Development Authority (Aiada) has prepared a Rs 6.8-crore project for improving basic facilities in its command area. Senior Aiada officials said that the project envisaged construction of roads and …
Ranchi, July 15: The Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) has identified 14 pockets in the city prone to waterlogging to facilitate steps to end monsoon worries. The places identified during a week-long survey are Islamnagar, Panchsheelnagar, Pathalkudwa, Millet Colony, Barhi Toli, Loharkotcha, Shahdeonagar, Circular Road, Gausnagar, Basartoli, Vidyanagar, Haldarpree Gali, Loharkotcha …
Residents of Mumbai hit the panic mode today as the Mithi river, flowing through its suburbs, breached its danger mark, thus reviving memories of the July 2005 floods that claimed over 150 lives. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said this afternoon that its disaster management cell was working on emergency mode …
AHMEDABAD: For those whose vehicles get stuck in the rains while on their way home or office or who are unable to venture out of their homes because of waterlogging in their areas, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has established helplines for immediate redressal. The system called Jansuvidha would update …
Mumbai: To expedite projects that could curb flooding in Mumbai, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee increased the allocation for the Brihanmumbai storm water drain (Brimstowad) project in the current fiscal year from Rs200 crore, earmarked during the interim budget, to Rs500 crore. Budget 2009The project will help the BMC increase the …
MANGALORE/UDUPI/MadikerI: Rain in Coastal Karnataka on Monday damaged houses, caused water-logging in residential areas and inundated paddy fields. In anticipation of further rainfall, all schools in Dakshina Kannada will remain closed today in view of heavy rainfall. In Belthangady taluk, schools will remain closed on Wednesday too, according to the …
The State Water Resources Planning Department (SWRPD) was established to achieve an integrated and multisectoral approach to the planning, development and use of the State
Irrigation of fertile plains of Punjab and Haryana has benefited the nation with increase in food production, there have been inevitable side effects, in terms of secular degradation of the soil productivity, due to the exacerbating problem of waterlogging and salinization of soils, which now affects thousands of hectares of …
MUMBAI: Heavy rains lashed the city on Firday leading to water logging in many low lying areas and disrupting traffic. "Water logging was reported in central Mumbai's Byculla, Parel, Mahalaxmi, Mahim, Goregaon and Milan Subway in the western suburbs following the rains," a Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) official …
Mumbaikars are apprehensive that the civic authorities are sleeping on the job and floods will follow rain as inevitably as night follows day. Vipin Kumar reports on the preparedness of the BMC Come June and the entire country starts gearing up for its annual tryst with its capricious raingod, the …
KOCHI: Nothing but stench and waterlogging welcome those who reach West Kochi. With the onset of monsoon, roads and streets in West Kochi, including those in the heritage area of Fort Kochi and Mattanchery, are under water. The canals are filled with various waste spreading stench and makes the life …
The Assam Government has almost resigned to the fate that waterlogging in Guwahati city cannot be totally prevented and now the focus is on ensuring quick discharge of water to reduce the miseries of the citizens. Large-scale encroachment on the hills in and around the city and resultant silting of …
