Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Gaurav Sharma Vs Govt. of NCT of Delhi & Others dated 03/07/2023. The National Green Tribunal (NGT), July 3, 2023 said that all government hospitals in India should have an environment management plan to tackle all sources of pollution in …
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 …
Recently, many people use automobiles more than necessary. In local cities especially, the modal share of automobiles is overwhelmingly high. Furthermore, such cities are becoming automobile-dependent. It is necessary to restrain this tendency in consideration of future social needs. For this study, the authors conducted a questionnaire survey of Toyota …
Traffic-related air pollution has been associated with adverse health outcomes, and the immune system may be a biologic mediator of health effects. We analyzed associations between living near major roads and immune status as measured by five immune assays. The researchers hypothesized that living near a freeway, arterial, or truck …
Do away with 12 per cent central excise and state road taxes, which would bring down the cost of a bus by a few lakh rupees A new tax structure for private cars. Currently, the rates are 2 per cent on vehicles that cost up to Rs 4 lakh and …
To boost public transport, Centre will help cities buy buses About 15,000 new buses are in the pipeline for 63 cities in the country. The Central urban development ministry launched a new scheme on January 12 to assist states and transport units buy buses for public transport under the Jawaharlal …
New Delhi: These are traffic signals with brains. They take a volume count of the number of vehicles at an intersection and automatically adjust the available green signal time on the basis of changing traffic demand. And the good news is that Intelligent Traffic Signals (ITS) are going to become …
Immediate sign of the mobility crisis in our cities is paralyzing congestion, -- crawling traffic and high pollution levels. Mounting global evidence shows that this imposes high costs on urban communities. This can be around 2 - 3 per cent of the GDP. In many cities congestion occurs during the …
Quantifying the impacts of idling or idling stops is not a straight forward equation, as it includes a variety of parameters including the types of vehicles on the road, age of the vehicles, vehicular combustion and emission control technology, the traffic load on the roads leading to the congestion times, …
Several cities in India including Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, have begun to take steps to implement fiscal measures to address the problem of air pollution and congestion. The key focus of the fiscal measures are clean fuels and technologies including CNG, LPG and zero emissions technologies; disincentives for older …
Despite the potential benefits of the BRT, the project made travel on the city road a nightmare for sanimuters. The loudest complaints said it not only increased traffic congestion but also added to traffic woes. And now, the government has decided to extend its plans and construct two new BRT …
With due respect to god, although not omniscient, we the car-driving and personal vehicle-driven are omnipotent. Let us not feel we are hoist to a new government petard
NOTHING SWEET ABOUT THIS JAM Ahmedabad: If you are stuck in a traffic jam on SG Road and are putting the blame solely on traffic police, your criticism could be misplaced. There are at least 15 agencies of Central and state government taking decisions on their own at various levels …
This report was designed to analyze the traffic safety situation in India, and to identify countermeasures for areas in which the total harm caused by crashes can be substantially and readily reduced. The report focuses on two aspects of traffic safety in India: challenges and opportunities. The first part of …
Blessed with gigantic oil deposits, Abu Dhabi has the world's highest per capita consumption of energy. Now, a green metropolis is being built there, eventually to become a center for regenerative forms of energy. Is this going to work? A report from the construction site.
CITY ON THE MOVE Some of the nosiest streets of the city have alarmed ear experts. A recent study by L D College of Engineering of 13 roads suggests that noise levels have exceeded well past the acceptable limits and prolonged exposure to such noise levels can lead to what …
By Sreshta and Krithika,DH News Services,Bangalore: The global economic slump and high interest rates on automobile loans might have dampened the sales of two and four-wheelers, but in Namma Bengaluru, vehicles continue to flood the roads. According to statistics available from the RTO, nearly 100 people apply for driving licences …
