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 …
Urban India's dismal garbage management record The Municipal Solid Waste Rules were notified in 2000 under the Environment (Protection) Act. These put the responsibility of garbage management
A proposed seismic survey for oil on the Brahmaputra river has Assam's citizens worried. A third of the population is dependent on the river for their livelihood
on january 7, 2006, the Kerala State Pollution Control Board (kspcb) permitted Hindustan Insecticides Limited (hil), a central government-owned enterprise manufacturing ddt and endosulfan, to resume production. This, even as environmentalists protested that the company has not met all pollution control measures. On December 27, 2006, kspcb had asked hil …
the controversial Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor Project has got a fresh lease of life. The October 6 order of the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (kspcb) withdrawing the consent for the establishment of the project has been dismissed. On December 15, the environment appellate authority of Karnataka upheld the project promoter's …
on december 14, 2006, the state environment appellate authority stayed an order of the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board directing Mumbai Port Trust (mbpt) to stop handling of coal at its Haji Bunder jetty on environmental grounds. This is the second time that the appellate authority has put a stay on …
In the last four months, seven people have died in Gujarat's Ankleshwar and Panoli industrial areas in three separate industrial accidents. Recently, on November 12, three girls
paper mills and distilleries in Uttaranchal are flouting pollution-control norms even though the State Pollution Control Board (spcb) claims that all is well. A study conducted by spcb in 2006, however, contradicts its own stand (see
the Gujarat High Court has issued notices to Alembic Ltd, the Gujarat government and Gujarat State Pollution Control Board (gpcb) over contamination of groundwater in Paneval village in Panchamahal district of Gujarat. The Vadodara-based Alembic, one of the oldest pharmaceutical companies in India, has a plant in the village manufacturing …
PRIME agricultural land in the fertile terai of Uttaranchal is being acquired to set up industrial estates in the districts of Udham Singh Nagar, Nainital and Haridwar. Mining and topsoil quarrying are compounding the problem of agricultural retreat in the terai and the hills. Following its new industrial policy of …
on october6, 2006 the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (kspcb) withdrew the consent for establishment it had granted to Bangalore-based Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprises (nice) for the Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor Project (bmicp). The primary goal of this project is to build a six-lane expressway (see map: Carriageway) between the two …
widespread resistance to a new uranium mine and processing plant in his long-time Pulivendula assembly constituency in Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh has come as a shock to chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy. People from his pocket borough have dug in against his pet project: a 26.79-million tonne uranium …
The Blue Lady touched Indian shores in the first week of July. The 38,000-tonne ocean-liner's year-long search for a breaking yard has been dogged with controversies, with groups such as the Ban Asbestos Network of India claiming that "it contains 1,200 tonnes of asbestos and unknown quantities of other toxins'. …
there is no end to ghost pipelines in industrial areas in Gujarat. Recently, the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (gpcb) had issued closure notices to 49 private industrial units including three chemical trading units in the Ankleshwar and Panoli industrial areas. The board has also issued show-cause notices to 13 industrial …
The Government of Gujarat constituted the Gujarat Pollution Control Board on 15.10.1974 with a view to protect the environment, prevent and control the pollution of water in the State of Gujarat, that occupies a prominent niche in progressive and industrial development of the country. The Board has been over the …
West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) is a statutory authority entrusted to implement environmental laws and rules within the jurisdiction of the state of West Bengal, India. WBPCB was constituted immediately after the enactment of the first major environmental legislation of the country, the Water (Prevention and Control of Water …
The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board for Prevention and Control of Water Pollution was constituted by the Government of Karnataka on The Twenty First of September Nineteen Seventy Four (21.9.1974) in pursuance of the Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 . The Water Act will provide for the …
Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) was established in 1982. The objective of TNPCB is to control, prevent and abate pollution of streams, wells, land and atmosphere in the State to protect the enviornment from any degradation by effective monitoring and implementation of pollution control legislations.
Within the framework of the Environmental Protection Act, 1986, that consolidated the provisions of the Water Act of 1974 and the Air Act of 1981, India established pollution control boards to prevent, control and abate environmental pollution. This paper examines the functioning of PCBs, in particular the Central Pollution Control …
