Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
MARGAO: Hotels and restaurants dotting the banks of River Sal at Mobor-Cavelossim and along the Assolna-Velim belt will soon come under the scanner of the Goa State Pollution Control Board against the backdrop of large scale death of clams in the river. When GSPCB Chairman Jose Manuel Noronha made his …
Earning from leather industry in Pakistan is 13,000 million per year. It is the third largest export sector of Pakistan whereas Kasur is the second largest leather producing city of Punjab. Kasur city is 55 kilometers away from Lahore. It is famous for the production of raw material which is …
Water quality monitoring is one of the important function of State Pollution Control Board. It helps in evaluating the nature & extent of water contamination, assess the water quality trends, evaluate the success of pollution control measures taken & prioritization of efforts to be initiated. Maharashtra Pollution Control Board is …
Following complaints by fishermen and the Velim panchayat over the mortality of shellfish in the catchment area of River Sal along Velim, Betul and Cutbona, the government on Monday launched an investigation to determine the cause. National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) is being approached to conduct an in-depth study and …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Tarun Patel Vs Chairman Gujarat Pollution Control Board & Others dated 01/04/2014 regarding the decision of Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) for the prescribed COD standards of 1000 mg/lt for the Small Scale Industries (SSI), which …
Green activists from Colva are hoping that fresh reports prepared by the Goa state pollution control board (GSPCB) regarding hotel units discharging effluents into the stormwater drain will force the authorities to take action against the errant hotels. Fresh reports have confirmed that certain hotels in Colva are still dumping …
High Pollutant Levels In Discharge Of Several CETPs Ahmedabad: Three Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) estates — those in Vatva, Odhav and Naroda — and the industry cluster in Kathwada are under the scanner for polluting river Sabarmati. The state industries department is now desperately seeking some accountability from the …
Notwithstanding repeated representations by farmers, villagers and Left parties, the authorities have failed to take steps to check heavy pollution in the Ghaggar, which continues to be a bane for the people living along it. Residents allege that the flow of hazardous chemicals and other effluents has reached alarming proportions, …
Way back in 1986, Rajiv Gandhi launched the Ganga Action Plan. But years later, after much water (sewage) and money have flowed down the river, it is as bad as it could get. Why are we failing, and what needs to be done differently to clean this and many other …
Concerned over the rising pollution in Ganga, members of Ganga Pradushan Mukti Abhiyaan warned to boycott the upcoming Magh Mela to be organized in Allahabad from January 14. With this, hundreds of seers associated with Ganga cleaning initiative will also not take part in the Magh mela. Recent reports issued …
JAIPUR: After rendering the agricultural land infertile, the huge amount of ground water being used for dyeing industry on the banks of river Bandi in Pali is fast depleting the groundwater and adversely affecting the dwindling forest resources of the area. "For cloth dyeing, huge amount of water is required …
Discharge of untreated water into various rivers has left 150 river stretches across the country completely polluted. The level of contamination in these stretches is so high that it cannot support any aquatic life. These stretches are located in almost all parts of the country except Jammu & Kashmir and …
The government today said that the Central Pollution Control Board has identified 150 polluted river stretches in the country with Maharasthra and Gujarat topping the list of having maximum of them. "The CPCB has identified 150 polluted stretches along various rivers in the country based on Bio-chemical-Demand (BOD)," Environment minister …
The Bombay high court (HC) on Wednesday while hearing the PIL filed by NGO Godavari Gatarikaran Virodhi Manch against government officials for pollution in Godavari river, asked the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) to comply with National Environmental Engineering Research Institute's (NEERI) recommendation to convert sewage treatment plants from 30 BOD …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Vijay Kumar Vs State of Punjab & Ors. dated 02/12/2013 regarding water pollution in Phagwara, District, Kapurthala, Punjab. Original Source: http://www.greentribunal.gov.in/orderinpdf/230-2013(OA)_2Dec2013.pdf
After a court order in 2004, Delhi government managed a huge swing away from polluting fuels to the much less polluting compressed natural gas (CNG), at least in vehicular public transport. Levels of poisonous chemicals in the capital’s soupy air plummeted and it looked as if Delhi had turned a …
With the contract of the agencies cleaning Godavari river with the help of boats coming to an end on September 30, the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) had floated tenders for the job about a fortnight ago, but found no takers. The tenders for the said work were opened last week. …
Despite all the hue and cry about eco-friendly idol immersions, especially during the last two years, the people and municipal corporation have failed to save their lakes. The dissolved oxygen (DO) levels of the two major city lakes, Telangkhedi (Futala) and Gandhi Sagar have gone down dangerously for the second …
According to the recent reports of Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB), the delayed monsoon showers had increased the pollution in Ganga and the situation would be more grim in winter. The report presented by the UP Pollution Control Board is enough to give a second thought to the idea …
After several pleas fail to move neighbouring state, PPCB to take it up with central board Unable to check Haryana’s industrial units from releasing their toxic waste into the Saraswati drain in Punjab, the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) has decided to strongly take up the matter with the Central …
