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 Haryana Government has directed people not to manufacture, stock, distribute, recycle, sell or use plastic articles such as plates, cups, tumblers, spoons, forks and straws in the State, Haryana Environment Minister Ajay Singh Yadav said on Thursday. He disclosed that the direction had been issued by Chief Minister Bhupinder …
With barely 45 days to go before the monsoon begins, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has woken up to realise that a part of their responsibility is also to clean up the Mithi river. The authority has now called for tenders worth a whopping Rs30 crore and expects …
JAMMU, Apr 24: Reiterating Government's determination for providing better basic amenities to the people of the State, Minister for Revenue, Relief and Rehabilitation, Raman Bhalla today said Government has introduced several modern projects across the State to meet the basic requirements of the people, adding worth crores of rupees have …
The Haryana Government has prepared City Development Plans (CDPs) for 73 towns of the State to plug loopholes in basic infrastructure like roads, drains, water supply and sewerage. Stating this here on Sunday, an official spokesman said that under the CDPs, Rs.1695.01 crore has been earmarked for urban local bodies …
GANDHINAGAR: The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has proposed that cities across the country should set up an automatic rainfall gauge every four sq km area. Vice-chairman of NDMA M Shashidhar Reddy released the guidelines for management of urban flooding on Thursday at the opening of the 3-day international conference …
MUMBAI: Every year, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) gets into an overdrive to ensure the city's clogged drains are cleared before the monsoon. An inadvertent delay in inviting a Rs 107-crore tender, though, has meant that work this year, too, has fallen behind schedule. There are fears that the city's …
To curtail the ever-growing menace of potable water being contaminated due to the ruptured domestic water pipelines, the Delhi Jal Board will replace old and corroded pipelines at subsidised rate. Though it is a responsibility of the consumers, the agency has decided to it as despite several notices, people have …
The objectives of this scheme are: To develop urban infrastructure facilities such as transport, drinking water, sewerage, drainage and solid waste management etc. at satellite towns / counter magnets around million plus urban agglomeration (UAs) covered under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) and to channelize their future growth …
Human actions rather than natural forces are the source of most contemporary changes in the state and flows of the biosphere. Understanding these actions and the social forces that drive them is crucial to understanding, modelling and predicting local, regional as well as global environmental change and also for managing …
Even as Delhi wants Haryana and Uttar Pradesh to step up measures to solve the problem of effluents being dumped into the Yamuna, the city itself is far from keeping its end of the bargain. In the absence of an efficient sewage treatment system and a large part of its …
Tarikere: To solve the drinking water problem of the villagers in and around Lakkavalli region, water will be supplied through various drinking water projects which have been undertaken at an amount of Rs 20 lakh available in the MLA fund, informed MLA D S Suresh. He was speaking after flagging …
The India Remote Sensing data on 1:50,000 scale revealed the occurrence of permanent waterlogging in low-lying flats and depressions of the Indira Gandhi Nahar Pariyojona (IGNP) command area. Such data also indicated seasonal dynamics of waterlogging and soil salinization in irrigated areas.
Climate change and the resulting rise in sea level would affect water sector infrastructure, such as surface water supply and urban drainage systems. The climate resilience of such infrastructure should then be made more climate-resilient to optimize its expected benefits. This publication provides a specific example of assessing the impacts …
Old hats, I Multi-level parking lots, community centre gyms and toilets for women find their way back into new proposals After two months of discussions, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) on Monday presented its final budget, with proposals bearing a striking similarity with those doing the rounds for the …
KOLKATA, 7 FEB: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will set up another 22 parking lots in the city, member, mayor-in-council (parking, drainage and sewerage), Mr Rajib Deb, said. He said the KMC already floated tenders for seven parking lots. Tender for the remaining parking lots will be floated within March. …
The civic budget for the coming year makes tall promises to complete the ongoing projects, but the reality is different. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has allotted Rs1,514.7 crore for the storm water drains to make the city immune to monsoon
Meghalaya looks set to lose around Rs 2,600 crore under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewable Mission (JNNURM) as the Centre will be wrapping up the flagship scheme in less than two years. The Centre has targeted wrapping up the implementation of the JNNURM in the country by 2012. Former …
CHENNAI: The Madras High Court on Tuesday directed the State government to take up with the Centre a matter relating to necessary amendment to the Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act. The First Bench, comprising Chief Justice M.Y. Eqbal and Justice T.S. Sivagnanam, gave the …
