AHMEDABAD: After the National Green Tribunal (NGT) ordered closure of ceramic units that run on coal gasifiers, as many as 450 such units in Morbi, India’s largest ceramic cluster, have closed down to initiate the process to switch over to natural gas. ' A few more units will shut operations …
Agra: A bench of Justices TS Thakur and C Nagappan on Monday offered three weeks' time to the Central Environment Committee (CEC) to suggest an alternate space for the crematorium near the Taj Mahal. At least 25 pyres are burnt here each day, and the ashes rising from these have …
The Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) on Saturday filed an affidavit with the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on operation of scientific chimney at Swargadwar (crematorium) in Puri as sought by the latter. On May 26, the scientific chimney started working although it was installed in September last year. The …
An expert committee on Tuesday examined the scientific chimney at Swargadwar (crematorium) in Puri and asked the civic body to operationalize it soon. The committee was constituted after the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on May 5 came down heavily on the state government for not putting the chimney to use. …
BEIJING: Cremation of the deceased instead of traditional practice of burials is gaining increasing acceptance in China with nearly 50 per cent of the dead being cremated last year to promote environmentalism and save land. Of the 9.77 million Chinese who died last year, 4.46 million, or 45.6 per cent, …
China urged its citizens to find greener ways to honour their dead, on Sunday calling for a “low carbon” tomb-sweeping festival free from the vulgarity of past years, which have seen the burning of everything from paper Porsches to paper mistresses. Filial piety and environmental consciousness are top priorities for …
Seeing its positive impact on the environment, Lucknow Municipal Corporation has decided to make services at the electric crematoriums free for everyone from this year onwards. The city got its first electric crematorium six years ago near Baikunthdham and now the corporation is planning to make another at Gulalaghat, near …
Uttar Pradesh Government has issued directions to authorities to stop the practice of dumping dead bodies directly into rivers, after 81 bodies were recovered from Ganga in Unnao district of the state early this year, the Lok Sabha was told today. The recovery of the bodies was probably either due …
The Bombay Hindu Burning & Burial Grounds Committee has decided to embrace an eco-friendly cremation furnace. The decision came as Jagannath Sunkersett Smashan Bhoomi, a Walkeshwar crematorium, completed 100 years. "Earlier, we were using 200kg wood per cremation, with the cremation time going up to 3 hours, but now, the …
To get rid of pollution on the banks of the Ganga, a parliamentary committee has observed that the water resources ministry and state governments should popularise the practice of electric crematorium in the Ganga basin states to put an end to disposal of unburnt or half-burnt dead. The standing committee …
The water resources, river development and Ganga rejuvenation minister, Uma Bharti, suggested on Tuesday that "electric" crematoriums should not be used on river banks and instead bodies should be burnt in a traditional way with minimum use of wood. She said that religious leaders - "sadhus" - have not approved …
Residents living in some parts of north Kolkata on Sunday were shocked to see that dust particles from Kashi Mitra crematoria were flying in the entire area. Residents of Cossipore and Nimtollaghat Street in particular were worst affected so far as the air pollution from the crematoria is concerned. Residents …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT), on Tuesday, expressed its displeasure at officials of the Odisha government for their failure in clearly stating what steps have been taken to curb pollution in the temple town — Puri. When the officials told the NGT that they would not be available in Delhi …
Local people gheraoed north Bengal development minister Gautam Deb as he laid the foundation stone for a new electric crematorium near the existing Kiranchandra crematorium here today. The people demanded the minister should first consider the problems of air pollution the existing crematorium has been causing. The new crematorium funded …
Residents from areas around crematoriums insist that in the recent round of refurbishing crematoriums, the civic body should install air purifiers to reduce the smoke released from funeral pyres. Several health activists have said that these demands are necessary as originally crematoriums were built away from residential areas, but now …
People in Shimla now have the option of disposing of their dead in a more environment -friendly and cheaper way by using LPG, instead of piles of wood, at a crematorium here. The Rotary club has imported the machinery from the United States. The plant has been set up here …
Karuvadikuppam crematorium causes pollution Residents and shop-keepers near the Karuvadikuppam crematorium, maintained by the Oulgaret Municipality, are constantly bothered by the smoke from the complex that pollutes the environs around the facility. The municipality installed an electric furnace a few years ago, which stopped working since June this year. People …
MUMBAI: The BMC is planning to use CNG instead of electricity at crematoria. Officials, who oversee the city's cremation grounds, said that electricity is expensive and therefore unviable. Responding to a report published in TOI on October 11, which highlighted the pitiable state of these final resting places, officials at …
London: A UK-based company has developed what it claims is probably the world’s best green alternative to cremation — an “alkaline hydrolysis” unit, which has been installed at a funeral home in Florida, US. The unit by Glasgowbased Resomation Ltd works by dissolving the body in heated alkaline water; it …
All those looking for an eco-friendly way to perform the last rites of their near and dear ones in the city not have much of an option. The electric crematorium at the Sector 25 cremation ground has not been functioning properly for the last one week. After the old electric …
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has planned to convert the electric crematorium in the Green Park Extension area into the CNG-based furnace. The civic body has invited private firms for conversion, operation and maintenance of the electric furnace into the CNG-based furnace. The agency getting the contract will also …
