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. …
Unwilling to commit to a concrete sum of money over a concrete period of time to fund sustainable development in the South, the us came up with the idea of partnerships (also called "Type ii agreements' in wssd jargon) during the preparatory process of the wssd. Several aspects of these …
whether the us is undermining the multilateral process by shifting emphasis on partnerships The us is against everybody in the world. Partnerships are not obligatory for governments to be accountable. They are an agreement between two people. They may announce it or they may not announce it. It has absolutely …
in the analysis of unced 10 years ago, Down To Earth reported that the conference failed to achieve much because of the lack of faith and trust between governments. No government was willing to give away anything
It took 9,000 delegates almost 225 hours of strategising, negotiating and arguing over the language to reach an agreement on the 150 clauses of the final Plan of Implementation. After the Bali preparatory meeting, the un proudly claimed that 75 per cent of the text had been agreed upon, and …
A week-long cleanliness drive will be launched in government hospitals like G B Pant Hospital, Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Hospital, Deen Dayal Upadhaya Hospital and G T B Hospital from June 27 to July 3. This was decided at a meeting held today under the chairmanship of Delhi Health Minister Dr. …
The Kanpur Development Authority has constructed an aquaduct in the South City at a cost of Rs 25.40 lakh to prevent waterlogging in the area. the construction has been done under the infrastructure head. The south city was the worst hit as during the monsoon water logging hampers the smooth …
Early childhood is the most critical period of human life. This is the phase that lays the foundation for an individual's mental, social and physical development. Early childhood is also the time when malnutrition, communicable diseases and poor health could threaten life itself, or have profound and long-term adverse effects …
I never thought I would be writing an article about airports. But I am provoked to repeat what we know and to say what would not be said often in connection with the sorry state of our public spaces. The Indian Express has published a series on - needless to …
Brig. N S Rana of the Allahabad sub-area launched a 'cleanliness awareness campaign' in Allahabad on Thursday for maintaining a neat and clean environment. In order to solve the problem of garbage, specially polythene bags, which are littered around the residential area, this cleanliness awareness campaign was launched by the …
Until about 10 years ago, astronomers considered Pluto an enigma. Unlike other planets that fit neatly into a simple architecture four small rocky bodies in the inner orbits and four gas stations in the outer orbits with an asteroid belt between them Pluto had peculiar orbit. Astronomers figured that Pluto …
Appreciating the work of Jammu Municipality work carried out by the Udhampur Development Society (NGO), the Tawi Vihar residents welfare association urged the residents to keep the colony clean and adopt al sanitary habits.
Two hundred more 'Nirmala Bangalore' toilet complexes will be commissioned in Bangalore city by the next 12 months by the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike in association with the Bangalore Agenda Task Force and the Karnataka Slum Clearance Board.
Residents of several slums in Bangalore were given a 'swaccha' gift by the Karnataka Slum Clearance Board (KSCB) and the Housing and Development Corporation (HUDCO). Estimated to be a Rs 7.38 crore, project, the 'Sulabh Shouchalaya' complexes are part of a drive initiated by the government to ensure "cleanliness in …
A 10-year US $4.76 billion rehabilitation and development plan for water supply, sewerage and drainage has been submitted by the Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) to the city district government of Lahore in Pakistan. The agency has also proposed procurement of 400,000 water meters at a cost of Rs 800 …
WHILE attending the Stockholm Water Symposium a few years ago, my colleague, Anil Agarwal, and I were invited to a banquet by the king of Sweden. But instead of dining in splendour we were checking out toilets in some remote parts of the city. I was not too convinced of …
"Don't flush." M K Malhotra, a resident of Delhi's Vasant Kunj, has put this instruction on his toilet. Six members of his family use this toilet at least three times a day and ten litres of water goes down the drain with every flush. In a water-scarce locality, Malhotra can …
IT IS time to go back to basics and examine what toilets and sewerage systems are supposed to do. The point of all these systems is the safe disposal of human waste matter. Flush toilets and sewerage transfer the problem elsewhere; they are complicated ways of spreading pathogens away from …
Porvorim will be the first among the six urban areas in Goa to be selected by the government, to have a sewerage system in place. This will be undertaken through a joint venture company of Sewage and Infrastructural Development Corporation (SIDC) in partnership with Austria-based Inframan.
By the narrowest of margins, the California State Assembly has approved a bill that could create the nation's first restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions from automobile tailpipes. The bill directs the California Air Resources Board to adopt regulations that reduce the greenhouse gas pollution emitted by passenger vehicles.
