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 …
Vidisha Municipality Chairperson Jyoti Shah today presented the budget for the year 2010-11. A provision of Rs 66 crore, 28 lakh and 33 thousand has been made for expenditure, while income from different sources has been pegged at Rs 66 crore 25 lakh and 32 thousand. The meeting of Municipality …
COIMBATORE: K. Gopal Memorial Trust, one of the three charitable trusts of the C.R.I. Pumps, has constructed a biomass gasifier crematorium at Saravanampatti on the city's northern border. Source of energy Constructed at Rs.2.20 crore to mark the 30 {+t} {+h} death anniversary of the company's founder K. Gopal, the …
At least 10 employees of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) at the CNG-operated crematorium at Bela Road (near Rajghat) have been receiving salaries for the last 15 months for no work. The reason: the CNG-run pyres at the oldest crematorium in Delhi have been under repair all this while.
Priti Narayan They were installed at a cost of Rs. 8.2 lakh each in 2002-03 PUDUCHERRY: Three out of four eco-friendly biomass gasifier crematoria in Puducherry are remaining unused. They were installed at a cost of Rs. 8.2 lakh each in 2002-03. A visit to the Sanyasithoppu crematorium reveals that …
Flood-hit people of north Bihar now opt to cremate bodies with cow dung cakes Hard hit after floods for three-four months every year people of north Bihar have devised a novel way to cremate bodies. And, this local innovation is not only catching up fast among them but has also …
Kumar Manish TNN Ahmedabad: The number of ecoconscious people is growing steadily. This is highlighted by the fact that more people are opting for electric and CNG cremation for dear ones. According to Birth & Death Control Department of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), there has been a jump in number …
By A. S. Jamwal HOW very strange. While we have a plethora of reforms for various aspects connected with human life, there is never a mention of reforms regarding disposal of the human dead. Cremation practices devised Eons ago in keeping with the circumstances and customs prevailing then have been …
JOWAI: A crematorium, designed by Kambel Chullai and constructed by the Sein Raij Jowai was inaugurated here on Thursday at Mookhein, Dulong Pohhali, Jowai by the Chief Secretary, Government of Meghalaya, Ranjan Chatterjee. The first innovative wood based, low cost and eco-friendly Crematorium-locally known as Khnap Thang Bru was designed …
United Nations figures show close to 10 million people die a year in India, where 85 percent of the billion-plus population are Hindus who practice cremation, mostly using wooden pyres that release huge amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2). That means felling of an estimated 50 million trees, half a million …
Pune, November 04 The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), while admitting to its shortcomings, has trained guns on the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) for not sharing the responsibility for the accident that killed seven at the biomedical waste disposal plant in Kailash crematorium on September 11. The MPCB is the …
Sanjib Chakraborty KOLKATA, July 28: It's been three months since the electric furnace for the crematorium ground of Madhyamgram municipality has been completed, but one detail has kept it from being inaugurated and put to use. An unclaimed body is required for the trial run of the furnace, located at …
K. Manikandan Wood gas-fired crematoriums have several advantages New facility: A wood gas-fired crematorium under construction in Chitlapakkam town panchayat. TAMBARAM: Wood gas-fired crematoriums have the become the convenient choice for administrators of urban local bodies and the Department of Municipal Administration and Water Supply to replace conventional cremation methods, …
In the wake of the panchayat elections scheduled for next month, a visit to a village in South 24-Parganas will acquaint one with the picture of neglect. "If we boycott the vote, can we get electricity and a crematorium next year?' asked Mr Uttam Munda, who lives in Kumarpukur village …
An Australian cemetery has unveiled plans to take the carbon out of cremations by offering new green funerals to help combat global warming. On the day Australia's formal ratification of the Kyoto Protocol on Greenhouse emissions comes into force, the Centennial Park cemetery in the South Australian state capital of …
cng crematoriums: Delhi recently opened four crematoriums powered by compressed natural gas (CNG), the fuel mandated for public transport in the capital, to curb air pollution. Two crematoriums are new, while two have been converted from electric-powered facilities. Officials say that cremating bodies with CNG will save both money and …
the location of your house plays a crucial role in determining your newborn's health. A recently published study links living close to an incinerator with the chances of a newborn suffering from spina bifida (spinal cord malformation) and heart defects. On the other hand, close proximity to a crematorium was …
