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. …
A joint meeting of the concerned organization Campaign Against Tipaimukh mega dam for human rights and 27 other organization from various parts of the state including UCM and ANSAM has asked the government to give up its plan to start public hearing on construction of Tipaimukh Dam.
The sprawling Avadi municipality covering an area of 64 sqkm would now have an underground sewerage system. Chennai Metrowater is preparing a detailed report for the Rs.125 crore-project. The details were discussed at a review meeting on comprehensive sewerage and water supply scheme being implemented in different phases in the …
Residents of this tiny hamlet near Machilipatnam have been vacating their houses one after the other with overflowing water from Lajjabanda drain inundating the place slowly. By Friday afternoon, the village was caught in waist-deep water. The drain from Guduru joins the sea in Manginapudi, 7 km from this hamlet. …
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) revamped eco-friendly waste management system, worth US$100 million, was put forward at the Workshop on Solid Waste Managment in the CITYNET conference, attended by international delegates and inaugurated by Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh at The Hilton Towers, Nariman Point.
In its preliminary findings, a committee on the Clean Budha Nullah Project, has suggested conducting a comprehensive ecological survey to ascertain the health effects of the pollution of the nullah besides drawing an intervention plan by water scientists, public health engineers, and soil scientists for a realistic, practical and one …
If all goes well, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will be the first civic body in the country to introduce a fine for spitting and littering at public places. The by-laws for implementing the fine got a go-ahead from the BMC House on Tuesday and are now a step away from …
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in conjunction with PRO-ACT and CITYNET, Japan will host a four-day congregation with representatives of local and national governments, civic societies, international organisations and private companies from across 20 countries. The event will begin from today and aims to discuss the emerging challenges in minimising solid …
The Chairman of the MCD Standing Committee, Mr Jai Kishan Sharma, said that de-silting of drains under the civic body and the PWD in trans-Yamuna areas would be carried out with better coordination. He said that a decision had been taken to hand over drains under the PWD to the …
The Irrigation and Public Health (IPH) Department and the National Highway wing of the HPPWD are on loggerheads on certain estimates submitted by the latter. This has left the much-publicised Kangra sewerage scheme in the lurch , resulting in the stoppage of work for the past more than one month. …
Next to a copy machine on the 10th floor of the city's public works building sits a plastic bin filled with worms wriggling in rotting lettuce. Public servants walk by without even glancing at the box or the note above it: "Quiet please. Worms at work.' Always on the cutting …
The Karnataka government has roped in the postal personnel to further the message on the Total Sanitation Campaign in rural areas. The community's trust in the postal personnel is being explored such that the Grameen Dak Sevaks will now disseminate information on the need to overcome open defecation habits and …
Paonta Sahib-based Himalaya International, which pioneered the recycling of waste generated by mushroom cultivation in the country, is all set to get the patent for its technology in the international market. Himalaya International informed the BSE that the company is close to finalising a deal to sell the rights of …
Good quality drinking water and proper drainage top the list of residents' demands at Manali municipality. Not surprisingly, the election manifestos of the candidates also centre on these demands in the coming civic polls. The Manali local body, which was recently upgraded to a third grade municipality, has 147 candidates …
The Sipajhar Diamond Club Community Centre, a leading NGO in Darrang district, Assam is going to implement Nagaon-Hatimara micro watershed drainage scheme as nodal agency with the active participation of beneficiaries. The scheme will bring all-round development to the entire locality as hoped by villagers. The prime objective of the …
• Adopting modern accrual-based double entry accounting system with e-governance features such as GIS and MIS • Reform of property tax with GIS • Levy of reasonable user charges to recover full operation and maintenance costs • Internal earmarking within local bodies' budgets for basic services to the urban poor, …
A voluminous document promises "the translation of visions into missions, missions into actions and actions into outcomes'. It is Pune's new city development plan (CDP), drafted by Credit Rating Information Services of India Limited (CRISIL) with technical assistance from the Financial Institutions Reform and Expansion-Debt (FIRE-D) Project of the United …
During six months before the survey 41 per cent of the report's customer respondents made more than one small payment (US $0.45 on average) to doctor meters into lowering bills, 30 per cent made more than one small payment (around US $1.90) to expedite repair work and 12 per cent …
The preparation of the CDP for Lucknow has been undertaken in the context of the JNNURM. Although Lucknow formally qualifies for JNNURM funding for being a state capital, it also is a million plus city and has a rich heritage. The CDP offers a city assessment, a vision for the …
July 26, 2005 has gone down as a day no Mumbaikar will forget. A record 994 mm (37.2 inches) of rain within 24 hours, widespread flooding and the loss of lives and property, the virtual shutdown of the
