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 …
The aim of this paper is to develop a methodology for estimating flood risk, considering Noida as a case study. This paper examines the impact of different methods for estimating impervious surface cover on the prediction of peak discharges as determined by a fully distributed rainfall-runoff model (WetSpa). The study …
SILCHAR:Grave concern was expressed by the intellectuals and experts at the way river Barak, regarded as the lifeline of this valley, was getting polluted and views were articulated on the measures to contain it. Dr Tapodhir Bhattacharya, vice-chancellor of Assam University, who inaugurated the function at Gandhi Bhawan here on …
As the Coimbatore Corporation Mayor and Commissioner take off to New Delhi to attend a conference on the eve of the sixth year of the implementation of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, things on the ground are not all that good. Almost all the projects the Corporation is …
The right to the city, an idea mooted by French radical philosophers in 1968, has become a popular slogan among right to housing activists and inclusive growth policymakers. In Indian cities unprecedented and unregulated growth, incremental land use change, privatisation and chaotic civic infrastructure provisioning are fracturing resources created over …
Five major road works will take off in the city shortly, at a total cost of Rs. 13.3 crore, and these would be completed by the end of March next year. An official of the State Highways Department told The Hindu on Friday that 2.5 km stretch from Avila Convent …
More than six years after it was proposed, the civic administration has now asked the Central Government to fund the Rs 1,675 crore Mithi River Project, with a view to ease the financial burden. So far the the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and the MMRDA have spent Rs 827 crore …
“Heavy pollutants” emptied into canal had residents gasping Early Sunday morning residents of Kamarajar Nagar near Ginger Hotel woke up to the acrid smell of chemicals that had spread across area through a drainage canal. According to a pollution control board official, “heavy pollutants” were emptied into the canal in …
NONGPOH: The ongoing construction of the four lane Jorabat-Umiam road in Ri-Bhoi district undertaken by the Ramky Infrastructure Pvt Ltd is posing a serious threat to the local residents of 20 Mile. The company is dumping waste soil in public areas as a result of which a small drain has …
A day after the Palike attempted to put up a construction at the Yediyur lake, it now appears that the project had been planned for a while. According to local residents, the draining of lake started last week with the demolition of the lake bund, surreptitiously. Anand, a local resident, …
Residents of Perungudi, Madhavaram and Tiruvottiyur have voiced concern over the use of dumpyards in their localities to dispose of solid waste from many of the new areas of Chennai Corporation too. In Perungudi, residents say that the Corporation must stop dumping mixed garbage and instead start source segregation on …
The works committee of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) today gave approval to various schemes of Rs 100 crore. The chairman of the committee, Jagdish Mamgain, said the scheme includes permission for construction of roads and drains in 24 unauthorised colonies listed in 1,639 unauthorised colonies. The colonies include …
The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has started revising the city development plan (CDP) as per the guidelines of the Union government. It would be used for planning the developmental works under the Jawaharlal Nehru national urban renewal mission (JNNURM) over the next 5 years. Neelkanth Poman, computer officer and …
In a place like the Nilgiris, natural calamities cannot be prevented but if sincere and concerted efforts are made their impact can be minimised. This was emphasised by D.V. Singh, Senior Scientist and V. Selvi, Scientist of the Central Soil and Water Conservation Research and Training Institute (CSWCRTI) while speaking …
The dream of Ranchi as a hygiene haven will remain just that — a dream — at least for some more time. The big-budget, ambitious plan to realign the capital’s shoddy network of sewers and drains, which had been hanging fire for four years over a litany of contentious issues …
JAMMU: For providing adequate drinking water facilities to Dharp and Dharp Kothey SC basti Government has earmarked ` 1.49 crore for digging of 10000 gallon discharge capacity deep drill tube well, 30000 gallon storage capacity Over Head Tank. This was stated by the Minister for Revenue, Raman Bhalla while addressing …
Jairam Ramesh to launch PURA As much as Rs.68.3 crore will be spent under the Provision of Urban Amenities in Rural Area (PURA) project being launched in Tirurangadi grama panchayat on November 15. The government has sanctioned Rs.10 crore for the first phase of the project. Central component The Central …
Plans to build a £3.6bn “super-sewer” to end the dumping of untreated effluent into the Thames are attacked in a report commissioned by London borough councillors and seen by the Financial Times. Thames Water, which says there is no practical alternative to its plans for the sewer, aims to tunnel …
Inauguration in Muttada on November 15 The corporation-wide inauguration of the decentralised waste management campaign will be held at the Muttada ward on November 15. The waste management scheme will be piloted in the Thampanoor, Palayam, Nanthancode, Pattom, Kesavadasapuram, Kowdiar, Kuravankonam, Vazhuthacaud, Palkulangara, Poojappura, Fort, Sasthamangalam, Vanchiyoor and Kunnukuzhi wards. …
It is an attempt to create clean, green DK dist, says CEO To achieve sustainability in cleanliness drive and to have a proper guidelines on waste management, Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat has issued 25 point waste management guidelines to all the 203 Gram Panchayats in the district. Under the Karnataka …
Guwahati: Hundreds of protestors took to the streets of capital Guwahati on Saturday after artificial floods caused by heavy rains on Friday claimed at least one person and threw life completely out of gear. The gateway to the North East India, the city of Guwahati has become virtually unlivable due …
