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 …
Gaya: Groundwater samples collected from three different places falling under Gaya Municipal Corporation area were sent to Quality Testing Laboratory of the Public Health Engineering Department (PHED). The test results show very high level of turbidity (presence of muddy content), iron and bacterial contamination rendering the water unfit for human …
Kolkata: Here's good news for the city where several pockets are contaminated with arsenic-affected water. The Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur has developed an ultra-low cost eco-friendly laterite based arsenic filter for providing safe drinking water. The innovation has won Sirshendu De, the head of chemical engineering department, the Innovation Award …
Dumpsites exist throughout the developing countries present a threat to human health for the next several years; this is because most of these countries follow the practice of open dumping of solid wastes. Most of these dumping sites are uncontrolled and years old, having grown over time from small dumps …
Several residents of Ottaparai Panchayat staged a demonstration in front of Chennimalai Bus Stand on Thursday demanding closure of dyeing and bleaching units in their village. Effluent The protesters complained that the nearly 10 polluting units illegally diverted untreated effluent into the village tank causing contamination of ground water and …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Sumitra Devi Vs. CPCB & Ors. dated 25/02/2016 regarding groundwater pollution by the discharge of industrial effluent in Haryana by the state of Rajasthan. State of Rajasthan would file an Affidavit in terms of the previous order of the Tribunal …
Punjab is one of the most fertile regions in India, where wheat, rice, sugar cane, fruits and vegetables are grown and it is called the “Granary of India” or “India’s bread-basket”. Rice and wheat are double cropped in Punjab with rice stalks being burned off over millions of acres prior …
After one and a half years, MPCB yet to to devise a remedial action plan to restore groundwater quality in the Waluj Industrial Area in Aurangabad district he National Green Tribunal has pulled up the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) for not complying with its directions for preparing a remedial …
Overflowing and foul-smelling sewage, hazardous materials, weeds and shrubs, all infested with disease-causing mosquitoes. This is the state of most of the lakes in Greater Hyderabad, causing untold hardships to residents living near them. According to official statistics, there are about 169 lakes under Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) limits …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Jai Singh & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 10/02/2016 regarding groundwater pollution by industries in Punjab. The State of Punjab shall file status report on the construction of CETP including the steps taken for the construction of …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Sumitra Devi Vs. CPCB & Ors. dated 09/02/2016 regarding groundwater pollution by the discharge of industrial effluent in Haryana by the state of Rajasthan. NGT directed the Chief Secretary of the State of Rajasthan to file personal affidavit to show …
Kolkata: The West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) is in the process of selecting agencies that will collect environmental samples from the industrial areas of Asansol, Howrah, Haldia and Durgapur and send them to a laboratory for the analysis of the quality of the ambient air and surface as well …
As per Central Ground Water Board and Central Water Commission investigation, the major rivers of Arunachal Pradesh are free from pollution and also the ground water is of excellent quality with all the parameters within permissible limits. This was disclosed by K Ramanand, Scientist, Central Ground Water Board, North Eastern …
The Standing Committee on Water Resources examined the subject ‘Review of ground water scenario, need for a comprehensive policy and measures to address problems in the country with particular reference to (i) dark blocks, and (ii) contamination of underground water by certain industries’ and submitted their report in December 2015. …
Contamination from experimental plant of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre High number of hypothyroidism cases reported in Keezhmadu panchayat in Aluva was the result of high-level groundwater contamination from the ammonium perchlorate plant of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) located near Kulakkad area in …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Asim Sarode & Others Vs District Collector Nanded & Others dated 11/01/2016 regarding environmental concern faced by residents of more than 12 districts in the State of Maharashtra due to contaminated ground water in terms of …
This study was aimed to monitor and quantify the metals present in the groundwater of Ranchi city, state capital of Jharkhand, India. Samples were collected from 44 locations during three seasons. The results show that arsenic concentration ranged from 0 to 0.2 and 0 to 0.015 mg/l in monsoon and …
In Uttar Pradesh there are 56 authorized slaughterhouses located both in and around the city. Most of them have poor hygienic standards, despite the meat processing industry being worth billions of rupees in India. Poor hygienic, in turn, poses huge public health and environmental change due to indiscriminate waste disposal …
Open defecation is practised by over 600 million people in India and there is a strong political drive to eliminate this through the provision of on-site sanitation in rural areas. However, there are concerns that the subsequent leaching of excreta from subsurface storage could be adversely impacting underlying groundwater resources …
Researchers have discovered a compound that can reverse environmental mercury (a heavy metal) poisoning by converting it from a highly toxic, volatile and soluble organic form (as a pollutant) into a comparatively safe, inert and stable form that renders it harmless and insoluble. The finding is published in an international …
Greater Noida: Two industrial units in Chhapraula, which has come to be called Greater Noida's cancer belt, have been asked to shut down following an NGT order directing strict action against polluting factories in the region. The order came on a petition that drew the NGT's attention to groundwater contamination …
