Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Abhishek Panwar Vs Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board & Others dated 20/05/2025. The miscellaneous application was registered on the basis of the report of the joint committee dated July 20, 2024 filed by the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) …
The mission mirrors the national developmental priorities by focusing on gender equality and women empowerment, the survey said Many states have achieved 100 per cent open defecation free status and individual household latrine coverage since the launch of Swachh Bharat Mission, one of the largest cleanliness drives in the world, …
Antariksh builds an IoT-based solution for each stakeholder in the ecosystem After completing his mechanical engineering degree from IIT-Madras, Mahek M Shah dabbled in a whole lot of things. He joined a trading company in Hyderabad as a derivatives trader and moved to algorithmic trading strategies for the company. He …
Uttarkhand's Tourism Department will launch a cleanliness drive on the World Environment Day on June 5 to spread a message among people about building a clean environment. The drive, "Swachh Bharat Swachh Garhwal", will be launched simultaneously in all the seven districts of Garhwal region on the World Environment Day, …
Smart Cities Mission can help in optimum utilisation of resources and make citizens happy, he said Focusing on the importance of cleanliness in the cities, a top official of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs at an event on Wednesday said that for a city to be smart it …
Rotary Club of Jammu City installed garbage bins stations at 4 locations in Jammu City. These garbage bins stations were dedicated to the people by former Deputy Chief Minister, Kavinder Gupta. Speaking on the occasion, Kavinder Gupta said that Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is the most significant campaign by the Government …
Hardly 200 meters away from the courts, police station and the bus stand Basohli, there are heaps of garbage, organs of the slain animals, feathers and intestines of the butchered chickens littered all along the Basohli Bani Road, making mockery of Government’s ‘Swachh Bharat’ slogan. The place, where the heaps …
An environment think-tank has claimed there were several loopholes in the Swachh Survekshan 2019 survey and ranking of cities. The Centre for Science and Environment claimed the on-ground assessment for the survey was completed in a mere 28 days to ensure the results were declared before the announcement of the …
Mysuru city was ranked third cleanest city in the overall national ranking with a five-star rating in the Swachh Survekshan 2019 the results of which was announced in New Delhi on Wednesday. While Indore in Madhya Pradesh was ranked the cleanest city in the country for the third consecutive time, …
NEW DELHI: Easy availability of funds under the Swachh Bharat Mission has made procurement of expensive heavy machinery, such as super-suckers, water-sprinkling tanks and JCBs, much more convenient for the corporations, but the need for additional manpower to keep them operational seems to have been overlooked. Most of these costly …
The year 2018 was full of declarations. In the country, some major policies and programmes were launched to tackle issues ranging from air pollution to plastic pollution. At the international level, too, two major agreements got underway—the rulebook to implement the Paris Agreement was adopted and the Kigali Amendment to …
Launches ‘Swachh Survekshan’ campaign for rural areas of state Governor NN Vohra launched the ‘Swachh Survekshan Grameen-2018’ at the Sher-e-Kashmir International Conference Centre here on Tuesday, which aims to undertake a survey to take stock of the progress already achieved by the Swachh Bharat Mission in rural India. The Governor …
Only 458 individual toilets built against target of 1.25 lakh due to lack of demand The Swachh Bharat Mission was supposed to build more than 1.25 lakh new toilets in Delhi homes. So far, the National Capital Territory has only built 458 individual household toilets under that scheme, according to …
A Parliamentary panel on Thursday dismissed the Government’s claim of achieving about 84 per cent of the sanitation coverage in the rural areas under the Swachchh Bharat Mission (SBM) noting that in actual the figure seems to be more on paper while progress at the ground level is very lethargic. …
HYDERABAD: The city may have figured in the list of 50 ‘clean’ cities under Swachh Survekshan 2018, but Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), which analysed the results, says the city got the ‘clean’ tag based mostly on visible cleanliness, not waste management solutions. GHMC does not segregate waste at …
Sweeping cities clean under Swachh Bharat is only half the solution. Responsible waste management is the other half, suggests a year-long assessment of cities by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) to understand their waste management tactics. Only four out of the 20 forum cities assessed in 2017-18 have …
PATNA: The state capital has only 132 public toilets for over 20 lakh population, causing inconvenience to the denizens, said Vishal Anand, the deputy commissioner of Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC), on Monday. The city vying for the Smart City tag with population floating every day also fairs quite poor in …
NEW DELHI: Nearly 24 per cent of the solid waste generated in the country was being processed as on January 31, according to data presented by the government in Parliament. Out of over 1.43 lakh tonnes per day (tpd) of solid waste generated across the country, only about 33,800 tpd …
Nashik: During an awareness programme on Swachh Bharat Abhiyan at Dhanlaxmi School and Junior College, founder president of the Nirmal Gram Nirman Kendra, Nalini Navrekar propagated the re-use and recycle of materials and zero-waste generation. Navrekar, who has been practising eco-friendly methods for the last 25 years, said zero-waste generation …
PANJIM: Non-availability of land, absence of sewer lines, no regular supply of water and lack of willingness amongst people are some of the major challenges before the Manohar Parrikar-led coalition government in Goa which has set target to construct nearly 72,000 toilets in next eight months in a bid to …
The Jaipur Municipal Corporation(JMC) is violating the directions of the Supreme Court and the Solid Waste Handling Rules in a bid to bag the top slot in the Swachh Survekshan-2018. The civic body is burning garbage to keep the city spick and span. However, the waste cannot be burnt under …
