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 …
NEW DELHI: Favouring preparation of a comprehensive new drainage action plan in coordination with various civic agencies, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi has said that unless such a step was taken the city would continue to face water-logging woes. Addressing a meeting of the MCD Standing Committee on Wednesday, MCD …
Citizens and realtors planning to construct buildings will have to shell out a drainage development fee to the civic body while getting their plans sanctioned. The Trinamul Congress-run civic body has reintroduced the fee scrapped two years ago, though the groundwork for the move was done by the previous Left …
Nearly Six-And-A-Half-Years After Underpass Became Operational, PWD Started Laying Pipes Just Before This Monsoon New Delhi: The flooding of Dhaula Kuan underpass which led to long traffic jams on Wednesday evening, and threw traffic out of gear on several connecting roads has exposed how poor planning and shortsightedness are responsible …
KOLKATA, 8 July: The state government's shortsightedness may result in disaster in vast areas of south Kolkata surrounding Rashbehari that face threats of caving in. Experts say that if there is subsidence, the magnitude of the disaster will be too great for the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to manage. Besides, …
Many experts here attribute the frequent recurrence of flash floods in the city to the failure of the drains to act as per their designed capacity. Not a single drain in the city is functioning as per its designed capacity, they assert. With this belief dominating many engineers, it is …
Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar NEW DELHI: The Environment Committee of the Delhi Assembly has expressed apprehension over the preparations made by various departments such as the Delhi Jal Board, Irrigation and Flood Control and Municipal Corporation of Delhi for the monsoon and declared that it would undertake surprise visits to see …
Mumbai: Cracking the whip on all those throwing plastic bags in drains, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has fined nearly 150 people and collected a fine of Rs1.32 lakh in a fortnight. After having learnt lessons from July 26 deluge, when plastic bags had blocked drains and led to flooding …
Isher J Ahluwalia , Ranesh Nair Until 10 years ago, Alandur, a residential suburb of Chennai in the Kanchipuram district, famous for its ancient temples, had no underground sewerage. In 80% of the metropolitan area outside the city of Chennai, most households depended on septic tanks with soak pits. The …
KONARK/BHUBANESWAR: With water-logging posing a serious threat to the historic Sun Temple at Konark, an expert team sent by State Government inspected the heritage site to examine the drainage system there. A six-member team comprising engineers and officials from the government and state-owned Orissa Construction Corporation (OCC) yesterday visited the …
Stay vacated by HC, new sewage plant can finally be linked to network Despite the crores of rupees spent on laying sewer lines and maintaining existing ones, the drainage system in Gurgaon still falls woefully short. Now, with the Punjab and Haryana High Court vacating the stay on the final …
Dhanbad, June 17: Branded one of the most of the polluted cities of the country, Dhanbad lacks even the most basic civic infrastructure. A faulty drainage system, erratic power supply, ill-planned colonies, shortage of drinking water and diminishing employment opportunities typify the coal capital. However, with Rs 4000 crore coming …
Pune Municipal Commissioner Mahesh Zagade on Thursday expressed concern over the linking of sewage and storm water drainage line. He has directed his staff to immediately identify the connecting point and separate it.
Poor Waste Disposal System, Unauthorised Constructions & Siltation Behind Flooding: NSSO Report THE monsoon may affect the urban poor more as 48% slums are facing acute waterlogging problems, affecting about 4 million households. In 2002, waterlogging had affected 36% slums, as per a report by the National Sample Survey Office …
Anantapur, June 15: The long-pending underground drainage scheme for Anantapur city seems to remain unfulfilled due to political leaders’ apathy. This is a dream pending from 1996 for city people and clogged drains are making localities stink. Congress leaders had assured people that they would ensure laying of underground drainage …
Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) alongwith traffic police is gearing up to monitor water logging in the city by installing CCTVs at major traffic junctions in the metropolis. The civic administration has written to the traffic department asking for footage obtained from CCTVs that they have installed at major …
With the city receiving 159.1 mm rainfall in the last two days, maximum temperature broke a ten-year record and dipped to 22.5 degrees Celsius, 16 degrees below normal. In ten years, this was the lowest maximum in June. While 83.8 mm rainfall was received on Monday, 75.3 mm was received …
TUTICORIN: A group of residents from wards 20, 34 and 35 submitted petition to Collector G. Prakash on Monday seeking his intervention to shift the sewage treatment plant reportedly being established amidst the residential area as part of the ongoing underground drainage project undertaken by the corporation. The petitioners said …
