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 Indore Municipal Corporation to task over delay in cleaning Khan and Saraswati rivers, National Green Tribunal (NGT) has now directed the civic body to chalk out a monthly plan for cleaning, stopping flow of sewerage and removal of encroachments and submit the progress report. Bhopal-based central zone bench of …
Scientists say they have identified a strain of bacteria that increases the productivity of naturally manured fields, slashing the need for the mainland's huge use of chemical fertilisers Mainland scientists say they have identified a type of bacteria in soil that makes organic farming much more efficient, hugely cutting the …
Ganga will be totally cleaned by 2018, the Centre on Wednesday told the Supreme Court, which had sought to know whether the government was serious about completing the clean-up exercise during its current tenure or wanted to keep it alive as a poll issue for the next general elections. “Absolutely …
Expressing concern over pollution in Narmada, the green panel on Wednesday said the state shouldn't wait for the river to become another Ganga or Yamuna where pollution levels are alarmingly high. Unhappy over slow pace of cleaning up of river, National Green Tribunal (NGT) has summoned Narmada Valley Development Authority …
Keen to ensure that river Ganga gets rid of pollution in line with its poll promise, the BJP government has sought the support of the Territorial Army to constitute the Ganga Task Force that would prevent people from further polluting the holy river and monitor the developmental activities on its …
Central Pollution control board has given its consent for the installation of a zero liquid discharge plant at Jajmau to save the river Ganga from pollutants in discharge of tanneries. The CPCB, during a meeting held recently at New Delhi, rejected the protest of tannery owners and gave a green …
India has 18% of the world’s population, 1.15 billion people, but access to only 4% of world’s fresh water resources. In the recent past, the dependency of Indian agriculture on ground water resources has increased upto an enormous extent due to several factors including increased demand of food, erratic behavior …
Public Accounts Committee (2014-15) present this Eighth report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on water pollution in India based on C&AG; Report No. 21 of 2011-12, Union Government for the year ended March 2012 related to the Ministry of Environment and Forest. The above mentioned Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General …
Australia will offer technical support and assistance to India’s mammoth undertaking of cleaning up the Ganga, Australian High Commissioner Patrick Suckling says. “We have agreed to work with India. We have spent $350 million to develop river basin modelling technology to save one of our biggest rivers, the Murray-Darling river …
Five million pounds is to be spent improving the quality of bathing water on the Teesside coast. The programme to clean up the sea at Saltburn will involve upgrading the sewer network in Guisborough, Tocketts Bridge and Dunsdale. The aim is to "significantly reduce" the number and size of spillages …
Union water resources and Ganga rejuvenation minister Uma Bharati on Friday announced that major drains would either be tapped or diverted in the next 45 days to prevent further pollution of Ganga. Following inspection of major drains discharging waste in Ganga in the city , she also ruled out ban …
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 …
The Supreme Court on Wednesday entrusted the National Green Tribunal (NGT) with the task of closing down industries polluting the Ganga which fail to install adequate anti-pollution measures to treat industrial effluents by March next year. A bench of Justices T S Thakur, Adarsh Goel and R Banumathi passed this …
With focus on cleaning of theYamuna and its bed, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), which is associated with 16 sewerage and water supply projects in India, on Wednesday expressed hope that the Yamuna would be clean by year 2017 and its water fit for consumption and swimming too. “With several …
NAGPUR : Union minister of water resources and river development & Ganga rejuvenation Uma Bharti has assured to ensure approval of Nag river rejuvenation project. Mayor Pravin Datke and municipal commissioner Shyam Wardhane briefed her about the proposal pending with the central government during her visit to the city on …
Interceptor sewer project to be inaugurated today A big step towards cleaning the Yamuna in the Capital is being taken this week, with the Delhi Jal Board getting ready to launch the first package of the ambitious interceptor sewer project on Monday. Trial runs on the first package of the …
Not a drop of sewage will flow into Yamuna three years from now, if a new plan prepared by different departments of the Delhi Government is to be believed. In an elaborate exercise titled 'Action Plan for Implementation of Directions of NGT for Unsewered Areas,' DDA, DJB and an independent …
