State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding the deplorable condition of a water tank, Golconda Fort, Hyderabad, Telangana, 05/06/2025

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 …

Pollution board inspects 144 heath facilities

Issues 56 applications for Bio-Medical Waste Authorisation The Goa State Pollution Control Board has conducted inspection of 144 healthcare facilities and has issued 56 new applications for obtaining Bio-Medical Waste Authorization. The GSPCB in a report submitted to the High Court, has reveled that 108 health care facilities have complied …

Cement companies planning units to be asked to use 25 per cent fly ash

The cement companies, which have signed MoUs with the Orissa government, for setting up of cement units in the state, will be asked to utilise 25 percent of the fly ash generated by them in various forms. This will be a mandatory condition for them and the Orissa government is …

Silica in Assams forest

Company begins operations, without clearances, in an elephant corridor A PUBLIC mineral exploration company is setting up office to explore silica in the Swang reserve forest in Assam. Over 800 elephants use the area as a corridor. The company had done a preliminary survey on the forestland three years back …

The plight of the Periyar

Waste from slaughterhouses dumped by the riverside. KOCHI: The sad tale of abuse of the river Periyar was portrayed at a photo exhibition organised by the Periyar Malineekarana Virudha Samithi at the School of Environment Studies the other day. With photos of a picturesque river turning colours from green to …

GPCB notice to Togadia hospital over waste disposal

AHMEDABAD: In its continuing drive against hospitals not following waste disposal norms, Gujarat Pollution Control Board served notice to VHP international general secretary Praveen Togadia

Residents fear and anxiety cloud sewage pumping stations and treatment plants

K. Manikandan TAMBARAM: Notwithstanding the assurances of authorities that sewage treatment plants proposed as part of underground drainage project in the southern suburbs would be built on modern lines, residents fear that the facilities might irreversibly affect the environment in the areas. The Central and State governments recently selected six …

Samara Samiti plans to block land-filling

THRISSUR: Laloor Malineekarana Virudha Samara Samiti has threatened to launch direct action to stop the construction of the secured landfill at the municipal solid waste treatment plant at Laloor in the town, if the Corporation does not stop the construction immediately. In a statement issued here, the secretary of the …

Margao sitting on epidemic bomb, admits MMC chief

Admitting that the Commercial Capital is sitting on an epidemic bomb due to rampant discharge of sewage in the storm water drains and nullahs, Margao Municipal Chairperson Savio Coutinho has said he would soon convene a meeting to find a solution, including suggestions to ban issuance of construction licenses till …

Report waste disposed daily: GPCB

Ahmedabad : The Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has finally got into action and plans to fix responsibility and accountability of illegal recycling of hospital waste on the point of generation of the waste the Doctor's clinic. Now, the common biomedical waste treatment (CBWT) agencies will have to inform GPCB …

Online system to monitor smoke levels

Jamshedpur, March 3: Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB) has decided to make online stack monitoring system compulsory in medium and large scale industrial units. The JSPCB authorities will issue a circular to this effect to all such units and especially to those which have smokestacks. JSPCB member secretary R.K. …

Units reported less patients to escape GPCB eye

Ahmedabad : A paralysing link in the so-called foolproof bio-medical waste disposal system' of state is an innocent rule which mandates that those healthcare units that treat 1,000 patients and less in a month are not required to be registered with Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB). This rule has played …

Green brigade against rooftop helipads

MUMBAI: While the state government has amended the development rules allowing rooftop helipads on residential as well as commercial buildings, the decision has not gone down well with environmentalists. They have written to the government, saying the helicopters will break the noise pollution norms. When chief minister Ashok Chavan was …

Traffic, construction, crackers are major noise-pollutants

MUMBAI: Traffic, construction activities and fire-crackers during festivities top the list of polluters in the city. Even as the Bombay high court asked the state last week to issue a notification to demarcate "silent zones'' in the city, activists say this is only the first step. To effectively deal with …

Dangerous business

Disposal facilities are not the final solution, but are good business as long as subsidized India generates 8.14 million tonnes of hazardous industrial waste in a year, according to cpcb. Of this, at least 350,000 tonnes have to be incinerated. However, the capacity of the tsdfs in the country to …

We cant provide leadership

H C Sharat Chandra, chairman of the Karnataka Pollution Control Board, talked of its failures and role in managing waste On waste reduction: India is yet to move towards it. Industries have to understand it is their problem. Initial investment can be taken care of with soft loans but they …

Whats happening inside disposal units?

Enforcement and monitoring are the key to safety Having tsfds and guidelines in place does not mean the waste has been taken care of. As the beil accident showed, cpcb

One river dried, Agartala eyes another

Tripura capital plans to get water from 70 km THE Tripura government plans to transport water to Agartala from the Gumati river, which is 70-km away, through a water conduit. This is to meet the water shortage faced by about 500,000 people in Agartala. But the project has run into …

Bankura NGO bags Meghnad Puraskar

BANKURA, Feb. 25: A Bankura-based NGO has been awarded the 2008 Meghnad Puraskar for popularising science among the rural population in south Bengal. The prestigious award will be handed to My Dear Trees and Wilds at the inaugural session of the State Science and Technology Congress, organised at Burdwan University …

Safe disposal of sludge, a problem

KARUR: Safe disposal of sludge generated by the dyeing units in Karur district continues to be a problem as the Treatment, Storage and Disposal Facility planned at Mathagiri village has not taken off despite getting all governmental clearance. There are hundreds of manual and machine bleaching and dyeing units in …

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