Counter affidavit on behalf of Chief Municipal Engineer, Patna Nagar Nigam in the matter of Saurav Narayan Vs Bihar Pollution Control Board & Others dated May 20, 2025. The report said that the corporation has been diligently performing its statutory duties within the limitations of the available resources and infrastructure. …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Compliance of Municipal Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016 (State of Bihar) dated 15/03/2019. The issue for consideration is status of compliance of orders of the Tribunal on the subject of solid waste management and allied issues. Some of the directions …
That is the conclusion of study by Centre for Science and Environment Are Swachh Survekshan rankings myopic? A study by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a non-profit public interest research and advocacy group based in New Delhi, did a reality check of cities that secured the top 50 …
The average South African generates about 1 tonne of waste a year and, according to the National Waste Information Baseline 2011, will throw about 900 times their adult body weight of waste in their lifetime. Considering our tendency to litter, it paints a grim picture of what the landscape could …
An environment think-tank has claimed there were several loopholes in the Swachh Survekshan 2019 survey and ranking of cities. The Centre for Science and Environment claimed the on-ground assessment for the survey was completed in a mere 28 days to ensure the results were declared before the announcement of the …
Sweeping waste under the carpet is a myopic waste management approach—sustained efforts are required, and it is this that the survekshan should rank in the future. Billed as the world’s largest cleanliness survey, Swachh Survekshan 2019 was recently released by the ministry of housing and urban affairs (MoHUA). Indore was …
पर्यावरण क्षेत्र के थिंक टैंक सेंटर फॉर साइंस एंड एन्वायरॉमेंट (सीएसई) ने दावा किया है कि स्वच्छ सर्वेक्षण 2019 और शहरों की रैंकिंग में कई खामियां थीं। सीएसई ने दावा किया कि सर्वे के लिए जमीनी स्तर पर आकलन महज 28 दिनों में पूरा कर लिया गया ताकि सुनिश्चित किया …
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga will today hand over 42 toilets to the Ubuhle-Bemvelo Primary School, in Mtubatuba, KwaZulu-Natal. The hand over of toilets forms part of a successful public-private partnership between the department and Amalooloo to address sanitation in schools in line with the Sanitation Appropriate for Education (SAFE) …
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga says she is confident that her department will eradicate the remaining 3 898 pit latrines in the country's schools "within the next three years". To date, 787 schools have been provided with appropriate sanitation facilities, with construction at 841 schools either in the planning, design …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nitin Shankar Deshpande Vs Union of India & Others dated 12/03/2019. The issue for consideration in the main matter is the standards to be achieved in the treated sewage discharge. Vide order dated 21.12.2018, the Tribunal found that dilution of …
RUDRAPUR: With its significant improvement after being ranked 325th in 2017 and 279th in 2018, the district headquarters of Udham Singh Nagar, Rudrapur has slipped in the Swachh Survekshan 2019 ranking to the 403rd spot. The other city from the district, Kashipur, ranked 307th in 2018 and 256th in 2017, …
ALAPPUZHA: Alappuzha municipality has come in first position in Kerala in the Swachh Survekshan- 2019 survey conducted by the ministry of housing and urban affairs. Last year, Alappuzha was in second position in the state in the world’s largest cleanliness survey. In National level, as many as 4237 cities have …
AHMEDABAD: The Union ministry of urban development on Wednesday released the latest round of `Swachhta Sarvekshan' where two Gujarat cities — Ahmedabad and Rajkot — were ranked in top 10 slots. Ahmedabad ranked as sixth cleanest city among 4,237 cities and towns in the country, moving six notches up from …
Mysuru city was ranked third cleanest city in the overall national ranking with a five-star rating in the Swachh Survekshan 2019 the results of which was announced in New Delhi on Wednesday. While Indore in Madhya Pradesh was ranked the cleanest city in the country for the third consecutive time, …
East Delhi Municipal Corporation improves position in Swachh Survekshan 2019 Results of the Swachh Survekshan 2019 released on Tuesday threw up a mixed bag for Delhi with the South Delhi Municipal Corporation and the East Delhi Municipal Corporation seeing wide swings in their rankings. The South and East Corporation’s rankings …
Navi Mumbai makes it to top 10; Maharashtra 3rd best performing state. After bagging the cleanest state capital tag and a nationwide 18th rank last year, Mumbai slipped several notches on Swachh Survekshan 2019 — a survey to rank cleanest cities of India — to stand at 49th, the city’s …
Agra: The Taj city has broken into the list of top 100 cities of the country as per the latest cleanliness ranking released on Wednesday. According to Swachh Survekshan 2019, the Agra Municipal Corporation (AMC) is on the 85th posititon. In the previous year'’s ranking, it was on 102nd position. …
A new government-commissioned survey has found that 93.1% of rural Indian households now have access to toilets, in comparison to 77% last year. The second edition of the National Annual Rural Sanitation Survey (NARSS) also recorded encouraging data with regard to toilet usage and open defecation, finding that 96.5% of …
In this latest Swachh Survekshan list, Indore was declared the cleanest city of India for the third consecutive year. Ambikapur of Chhatisgarh came second in the ranking, followed by Mysuru, Ujjain and New Delhi. After a slide in cleanliness ranking for two consecutive years, Rajkot staged a comeback as the …
A new government-commissioned survey has found that 93.1% of rural Indian households now have access to toilets, in comparison to 77% last year. The second edition of the National Annual Rural Sanitation Survey (NARSS) also recorded encouraging data with regard to toilet usage and open defecation, finding that 96.5% of …
The National Annual Rural Sanitation Survey (NARSS) 2018-19, conducted by an Independent Verification Agency (IVA) under the World Bank support project to the Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen (SBM-G), has found that 96.5% of the households in rural India who have access to a toilet use it. The NARSS also re-confirmed …
