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 …
HIDDEN HISTORIES One complaint, above all, would be the civic indiscipline practised by the people themselves Just ask any Chennaiite to list the city’s civic woes and the answer will be unvarying. Garbage mounds, bad roads, poor drains and chaotic traffic. A daunting list indeed. Not included in it, but …
This article is based on a visit to Mundra taluka of Kutch district, Gujarat in January 2011 to understand first hand the plunder of common property resources. It focuses on the Mundra Port and special economic zone developed by the Adani Group and a thermal power plant of OPG Power …
Private agencies to be roped in The Vadakara Municipality is planning to team up with various private agencies in the region to take up a comprehensive source-level waste treatment scheme with the support of residents and industrial units. A special fund will be earmarked to support the scheme, which will …
One more civic issue comes to the fore within a month as Ellis Nagar residents complain of uninhabitable conditions A public interest litigation petition has been filed in the Madras High Court Bench here on the basis of a news report that appeared in The Hindu on March 12 under …
Few other divisions of the Kochi Corporation have as many infrastructure projects lined up as the Vyttila division. Vyttila is the biggest junction in the State and is home to the inter-modal mobility hub. A railway halt is expected at the adjacent Ponnurunni, so that Vyttila can lay claim to …
The Bombay high court has directed the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) to implement the recommendations made by the National Environment Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) regarding the lack of management of the dumping ground at Turbhe, leading to massive inconvenience to the public residing around it. A division bench of …
K.P.Munusamy addresses officialsof corporation, 19 municipalities Local bodies should ensure prompt execution of schemes with respect to civic amenities and basic facilities within their limits, said K.P.Munusamy, Local Administration Minister. Addressing the local body officials after reviewing the progress of development works in Tiruchi Corporation and in the 19 municipalities …
DRDA Project Director holds special consultative meeting Local bodies should achieve cent per cent in construction of rainwater harvesting structures and drainage water collection pits in every house to improve groundwater table and keep surroundings at villages clean. The panchayats should complete all development works that were undertaken during 2011-12 …
New Delhi: Taking note of recent incidents where sewer cleaners died of gas poisoning, Delhi Government has set-up a three member committee to prepare a report on safety norms for workers and transition to mechanized cleaning of sewers. The committee has to submit its report within a week. The Delhi …
Srinagar: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah approved a Rs 59.80 crore annual plan for Srinagar district for 2012-13 today. The announcement was made soon after the Srinagar District Development Board meeting chaired by Omar here. “As a result of this decision, the overall availability of resources to Srinagar district for development …
The Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board (TNSCB) would be undertaking a survey of the slums in Vellore Corporation with a view to replacing them with pucca individual houses or apartments under the Rajiv Awas Yojana, a housing scheme to be funded jointly by the Central and State governments, according to …
New Delhi: Every summer, the city hits a dry patch and the government makes panic calls to different states, seeking help to meet the water demands. This year has been no different either. But imagine an entire university functioning in the city without a government water connection or any tankers …
Yet again, floods have caused death and destruction across Assam. A hundred lives have been lost, more than two million homes came under water, scores of houses have been swept away, and hundreds of cattle have perished. We saw the Prime Minister and Congress president touring parts of Assam, looking …
‘Move will destabilise efforts at decentralisation of process’ The Thrissur Corporation is planning to employ a private agency to remove the accumulated garbage from the city. According to corporation sources, a Salem-based agency has approached the civic body offering to remove the garbage at a cost of Rs.3 per kg. …
The Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board on Wednesday approved construction of 7,400 houses for slum-dwellers under the Economically Weaker Section category at Bhalaswa Jahangirpuri. At a meeting in Delhi Secretariat, the Board also gave its nod for construction of a community hall at Trilokpuri and passed its budget for the …
Ahead of global investors meet scheduled in October this year, the Mayor-in-council of the Indore Municipal Corporation in an important meeting here on Wednesday evening gave an approval to carry out development works worth Rs 150 crore to further improve basic infrastructure of the city. The State Government had sanctioned …
Says saline water from south-west Punjab may travel to other areas Chandigarh: Waterlogging in south-west Punjab could jeopardise food grain production with an expert group led by Planning Commission member Mihir Shah claiming that saline water from waterlogged areas could travel to central parts of the state through continuous aquifers. …
An eight-member central team comprising members from the Planning Commission, Central Water Board and drainage experts on Monday visited the water-logged villages in Muktsar, where a large swath of land has turned barren. The team led, by Dr Mihir Shah, member, Planning Commission of India, visited the three worst-affected villages …
Meghadrigedda, a non-perennial drainage system is one of the major water resource systems of Visakhapatnam city located in the north coastal part of Andhra Pradesh, India. The study was intended to present a twodimensional approach to describe the properties of Meghadrigadda drainage morphometry at sub-basin level using GIS as a …
