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 …
How did the idea of ecological restoration (ER) originate? The concept of er has been around for more than a century. The earliest published call for restoration, that one can recall, was made in India by the famous theosophist Helena Blavatsky in 1879. Madame Blavatsky, as she was known, predicted …
environmental degradation manifests itself through bioindicators, but it is not easily understood by many stakeholders. There are many reasons for this. Firstly, the boundaries of adverse environmental impacts are not easy to demarcate as they do not respect the jurisdiction of states or state pollution control boards (spcb s). It …
consumers in us have pledged to buy gasoline-electric hybrid cars if carmakers manufacture them. The pledge was made in an internet petition as a part of the Natural Resources Defence Council's (nrdc) "earthsmartcars' campaign. "Automakers will not get really serious about building hybrid cars unless they think there is a …
The total lack of interest and foresight that the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government is showing while dealing with the country's growing pollution is downright appalling, to say the least. An excellent indicator of this came recently when the government reconstituted the council on trade and industry to set up eight …
the existing belief that planting trees to absorb carbon dioxide ( co 2 ) is an alternative to reducing fossil fuel emissions is slowly losing ground. Now, scientists are predicting that carbon sinks
there is no doubt that air pollution will be of even greater significance in the next millennium. From the first century, when Roman philosopher Seneca complained about air pollution, to recent times, the problem has grown to assume grave dimensions. It is in the light of this that a book …
Some Japanese researchers have come up with a way to cleanly burn fuels such as lignite, which produce a lot of pollution due to their high water and sulphur content. Researchers at the Japan Chemical Innovation Institute and the National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research near Tokyo say a …
the government of Assam seems to have finally woken up to growing vehicular pollution in the state. In a major policy decision, the government has decided to issue licenses to private parties to open auto-emission testing centres all over the state. According to the transport department, the number of checking …
The ministry of environment has come out with a six-year project to improve the quality of the Naktong River's water, according to a newspaper report. The river is a source of drinking water for nearly 13 million residents of the southeastern province of Kyongsang. The project involves the construction of …
The United Nations (un) has asked for immediate steps for cleaning the River Danube of wastes generated by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (nato) bombing. Water from the Danube is used for drinking purposes in the downstream nations Romania and Bulgaria. According to Pekka Haavisto, head of the United Nation …
For Harish Chandra, who retired as professor from the Maharishi Dayanand University in the town of Rohtak, Haryana, things have changed a lot since the dayshe used to travel by horse-driven tongas to college. "Now, there are about 6,000 auto-rickshaws," he says. Asserts Jasphool Singh, editor of Paryavaran Vahini, a …
"Out of order," Sanjiv Lakhanpal tells one of his regular customers, as hefiddles with some parts of the photocopier in his shop. The 34-year-old earns his livelihood from a public call office near the bus stand on national highway-22, known as Cart Road in Shimla, the capital of the Himalayan …
If you go out in the city wearing a white shirt, after a couple of hours you willwonder if the black shirt you are wearing is really yours," says S K Katiar, chiefphysician, M L Chest Hospital, Kanpur. For a while now, Kanpur's air quality has been quite bad, with …
One of the most densely populated areas in India, the union territory of Pondicherry has 1,642 persons per sq km. Its air is also one of the densest in the country (see box: Unclean air). In 1997, the maximum levels of both spm and so2 were about three times the …
"Kota is fast becoming like Delhi in matters of pollution. What we have here is an exploding situation," says Nishith Arora, a dentist living in Kota. The story of airpollution in the Rajasthan city begins with industry and ends with vehicles. Kota is known for stone mining, mineral-based industries, cement …
"In Jammu, 90 per cent of air pollution is vehicular," says A B Jandiyal, environmental engineer with the Jammu and Kashmir Pollution Control Board (j&kpcb;). A cpcb report has already branded Jammu as one of the most polluted cities of the country. Yet no regular monitoring of the ambient air …
"In Jaipur city, there are no major air polluting industrial units. Most are small-scale textile units and cause water pollution, not air pollution. The main culprit of air pollution is vehicles," says Rajesh Thakuria, regional officer, rpcb. According to Balakant Sharma, statistical officer at the transport office in Jaipur, the …
For the Centre • Improve air quality monitoring; • Identify 'hot spot' cities for special attention; • Create a national-level authority with accountable state bodies. These should have technical expertise and financial/legal powers to plan and coordinate air quality improvement exercises; and • The improvement exercises should include identification of …
in an effort to check the growing air pollution levels in Delhi, the state government is considering a ban on the sale of new two-wheelers fitted with two-stroke engines with effect from January next year. Expectedly, this proposal has given rise to a lot of controversy. While some experts hail …
