Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Residents Welfare Association Savita Vihar Vs Irrigation & Flood Control Department & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant raised the grievance against throwing of construction debris and sewage obstruction in the Ghazipur drain. According to the applicant this drain flows behind …
Several roads were found damaged after the weeklong rain resulted in constant waterlogging across the city.Traffic police said they discovered that bitumen had got washed off after the stagnant water receded. A list of stretches affected has been prepared by them and would be submitted to the civic bodies. Police …
Due to the increasing pollution in the Kala Sanghian drain, Environmentalist Balbir Singh Seechewal today took up the issue with the MC officials. He said the Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) built at a cost of Rs 50 crore was lying non-functional. Seechewal met MC Commissioner Gurpreet Singh Khaira, PPCB Superintending …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Ratneshwar Prasad Singh Vs. Banka Municipality & Ors. dated 02/07/2015 regarding faulty construction of sewerage system, Banka Municipality, Bihar. Counsel appearing on behalf of the applicant submits that there is need to pass urgent directions to the Banka Municipality – …
GURGAON: The city is getting ready to have its own disaster management plan for the first time. Additional deputy commissioner Vinay Pratap Singh is working on a disaster management plan wherein capacity-building activities have been lined up at the level of schools, government colleges, government departments and industries in the …
Dehradun: Blame it on official apathy but polythene bags are being openly used in the hill state with impunity. Even though a ban was imposed on the use of polythene bags below 40 microns in Uttarakhand in 2012, it has not been enforced in true letter and spirit. Being non-biodegradable, …
KOCHI:The National Green Tribunal (NGT), Chennai, has asked the Kerala Government to file a status report and the steps taken to improve the drainage system in the State, which is notorious for water-logging, following Supreme Court order. The NGT Bench observed, “after hearing all the parties, an astonishing fact was …
Gomti has gone dry in its upper catchment. The river has lost its tributaries in all the districts through which it flows, except in Sitapur where Sarayan and Gon supplement it. In Lucknow, Behta, which augmented Gomti, has shrunk considerably and needs urgent conservation. Flowing 150km from its origin in …
NEW DELHI: It is likely to be an important day for the lifeless Yamuna, as the National Green Tribunal is likely to take a decision on how its "ecological flow" can be restored. On Wednesday , the NGT bench issued notices to the chief secretaries of Uttarakhand, Rajasthan and Himachal …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Manoj Mishra Vs. Union of India & Others dated 10/06/2015 regarding pollution in river Yamuna. The Tribunal in its order noted that there was an agreement signed between the States of Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, UP, Haryana, Delhi …
THANE: Following the recent controversy surrounding the ban on Maggi noodles, city doctors, environmental activists and field experts have said that anything that is considered a green and healthy diet could be drowned in pesticide and insecticide or irrigated by waste water along the railway lines. and field experts have …
GURGAON: HUDA has asked the senior town planner to initiate action against 10 builders, including mall owners, housing societies and commercial complexes, for discharging untreated toxic sewage into drains reaching the Yamuna. This follows a joint survey they held recently with the state pollution control body. Gurgaon's senior town planner …
KOCHI: At a time when the city authorities are going gaga over the integrating public transport system, town planning experts have emphasized on the need to put in place an updated master plan for the city. Though several talks and discussions have been carried out as part of implementing a …
The National Green Tribunal has directed the TNPCB to take action against agencies, including the MTC and SETC for polluting the river. It starts as a trickle in a remote corner in neighbouring Tiruvallur district and meanders through beautiful, serene villages and towns before draining into the Bay of Bengal …
The Yamuna river has failed to show any improvement in its pollution level in the past one year despite gradual reduction in pollution load contributed by major drains in Delhi, according to an Union environment ministry report. According to the environment ministry’s annual report (2014-15), a Central Pollution Control Board …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Sanjay Agnihotri Vs Union of India & Ors. dated 29/05/2015 regarding air and water pollution in Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
The garbage collection points will be constructed in localities around these so that the drains and eventually the Yamuna are spared further pollution. In an attempt to alleviate the growing pollution of Yamuna, the East Delhi Municipal Corporation plans to construct garbage collection points in areas near the drains leading …
Lambasting civic bodies for not cleaning drains in the national capital, National Green Tribunal (NGT) today warned Delhi chief secretary and the senior-most civic officials of coercive action like attachment of salary if they do not comply with its order on the matter. A bench, headed by NGT Chairperson Justice …
A criminal case has been filed under Section 44 of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974, which provides for imprisonment for a term not less than one year and six months and extends to six years with a fine. DH file photo The Karnataka State Pollution Control …
The Centre is now facing one of its biggest challenges in cleaning up Ganga -Kanpur's Sisamau Nala, the dirtiest open drain of the stretch. The drain discharges the highest amount of untreated sewage (138 MLD) into the river. The river also passes through one of the most populated and congested …
The Report of a Study on the Evaluation of the Land Drainage and Watershed Management Programme effected by the National Development Unit during the period 2010-2014 has been presented to the Government. The Study was commissioned in December 2014 with a view to, among others, analysing the different phases, and …
