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 …
Rampant dumping of scrap into the Mithi at Kurla has undone all the effort to de-silt the river. The residents of Kapadia Nagar, Kurla (West), complained that the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has started the work a bit too late to finish before monsoon. Besides, the work will …
CHENNAI : Corporation wards which fall under Saidapet and Theyagaraya Nagar constituencies in South Chennai have been chosen by the civic body for a pilot project to cover dustbins. The project envisions a better garbage disposal system for households in Chennai, by having garbage collected directly from the residents and …
LUCKNOW: Faced with a host of complaints pertaining to drainage and sewerage works executed under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), the Lucknow Municipal Corporation on Monday decided to get the works examined by a technical agency. Municipal commissioner NP Singh said that if possible the works will …
KOLKATA, 16 MAY: It may sound unbelievable, but the third oldest underground sewer line in the world has been cleaned for the first time since its installation and re-commissioned today. The mayor, Mr Sovan Chatterjee, and other senior civic officials were present at a function held on Beadon Street to …
Residents of this colony are forced to defecate on railway tracks, open ground or among bushes, because there are only 40 toilets for 500 houses here! This is the pitiful state of the residents of the locality on the HMT Watch Factory-Jalahalli Road. What may seem like sheer incivility of …
Projects to improve infrastructure discussed at Vision-2020 With an eye on improving waste management in the city, the Mysore City Corporation (MCC) is planning to install a computer controlled chip in each house, which would indicate if garbage has been collected. Think tank: Alert Citizens Team president Prof Shivaram Malavalli …
The Centre on Tuesday unveiled the expanded version of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, allowing over 30 new permissible works, as productivity-enhancing activity. The gram panchayats alone have been empowered to decide on the priority of work to be taken up. Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam …
The City’s biggest water body, Bellandur lake, faces the threat of extinction finds a study by the Energy and Wetland Research Centre (EWRC) and Centre for Ecological Sciences (CES) of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). slow death A view of the Bellandur lake. The lake is being dried up …
GUWAHATI, May 7 – The Kamrup (Metro) district administration has launched its second phase of cleaning and de-siltation to cope with the problem of artificial flooding that has assumed a perennial status in the city. According to official sources, the second phase has been extended to some of the important …
To refurbish old tail-end sluices and construct new ones Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Monday unveiled a Rs 1,560-crore project to refurbish old tail-end sluices and construct new ones in the Cauvery delta districts to conserve rainwater during the monsoon and take measures to prevent incursion of sea water into agriculture …
Mayor of Colombo A. J. M. Muzammil said yesterday (30) that the floods in some parts of the city would soon be a thing of the past as the World Bank had granted US$ 180 million to upgrade the city drainage system, including the storm water system. The Mayor told …
The Department of Rural Development & Panchayats, Government of Punjab has recently implemented waste water treatment systems, applying Waste Stabilization Ponds (WSP) technology in some of the villages in the districts of Ludhiana and Muktasar, in order to rejuvenate/renovate existing unused ponds. The state government desired to have techno-economic evaluation …
With the Coimbatore Corporation Council recently passing a resolution to initiate criminal action against those obstructing development works by opposing tree cutting, axing of trees on Chellappa Gounder Street in Kattoor resumed on Sunday. However, the contractor felled only two trees and not the ones in dispute as the trees …
New Delhi: Pressure is building up to treat manual scavenging on a par with crimes against dalits, to be tried under the atrocities law which lays down stringent punishment. The union social justice ministry has asked the home ministry for details of cases filed by states for manual scavenging under …
With an eye on early monsoon preparedness, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has decided to impose hefty fines on citizens found throwing garbage in or near drainage systems. The civic administration will put up signboards warning people of penalties if caught throwing garbage that could clog the rainwater drainage systems. Though …
The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) on Wednesday received an additional Rs 400 crore in its pocket, with eyes on big investments in constructing new and rehabilitating the existing sewerage network in the city. The Delhi government has approved a total budget outlay of Rs 3,800 crore for 2012-12 for the …
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has purchased a new robotic multi-purpose excavator machine for the desilting of major drains in the city, as well as the Mithi river. On Thursday, the sewerage operations department of the corporation demonstrated the machine’s operations for the first time. The excavator works as three …
MUMBAI: Satisfied with the performance of robotic multipurpose excavator to clean the nullahs, the BMC may go ahead and buy more of them. A decision on this is yet to be taken, but senior civic officials and the ruling alliance leaders expressed their satisfaction after seeing a demonstration of the …
Water supply and drainage facilities in Chennai’s suburbs will be strengthened at a cost of Rs 2,000 crore, announced Mr K.P. Munusamy, Tamil Nadu Minister for Municipal Administration. Replying to the debate in the Assembly on the demand for grants to Municipal Administration and Rural Development, he said the Chennai …
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today asked the Irrigation Department to moot a proposal for amending the Northern India Canal and Drainage Act to check the growing malpractice of water theft in the state. In a meeting held to review the functioning of the department this morning, Badal asked the …
