Counter affidavit on behalf of Chief Municipal Engineer, Patna Nagar Nigam in the matter of Saurav Narayan Vs Bihar Pollution Control Board & Others dated May 20, 2025. The report said that the corporation has been diligently performing its statutory duties within the limitations of the available resources and infrastructure. …
The list of cities in rankwise on sanitation 2009-2010 under National Urban Sanitation Policy published by Ministry of Urban Development. Findings of a Union Urban Development Ministry survey on where Indian cities stand on safe sanitation practices reveal some grim figures. A majority of the 423 cities that were rated …
Access to safe water is necessary for lives and livelihoods. In India, a mid-term assessment reveals that the country has already met its MDG (Millennium Development Goal) in terms of expanding access to water infrastructure although in the parallel subsector of sanitation progress is falling far short of the mark. …
In October 2008 the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health invited international representatives from NGOs, government, academia and the UN to a meeting to discuss barriers and to identify breakthroughs to providing sanitation for all. This document has been compiled to summarize the discussions, place them within …
The disposal of waste presents an increasing challenge to the administrative bodies of megacities. The Municipal Corporation of the Indian city Pune has introduced source separation systems and onsite organic waste composting. The citizens concerned are looking for practical ways to treat their organic wastes and they have found city …
NEW DELHI , March 31: A ratings exercise carried out by the Union urban development ministry (UDM) to assess the performance of 441 cities in the country on sanitation has indicated towards appalling neglect of cleanliness issues by cities. The findings of the survey, initiated in December, are in the …
Two billion tons of human and animal waste and industrial pollution are dumped into waterways every day around the world, according to reports released in Nairobi, Kenya, for the 17th annual World Water Day
New Delhi, March 14: With the national capital all set to host the 2010 Commonwealth Games, chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Sunday appealed to Delhiites to come forward and help municipal bodies in keeping the city clean.
The population of India would double over the next 20 years; almost all its cities would experience a twofold expansion during this period. No part of the world has ever seen such staggering urban growth. Cities like Paris stabilized their population sizes at about two million. Although Greater Paris has …
NEW DELHI: Sulabh International, which operates public toilets across the country, has refused to take up any work offered by the MCD for the maintenance of public toilets in the Capital in view of upcoming Games. This comes in the wake of recent allegations levelled against it by MCD Leader …
Waste pickers in New Delhi have made a business proposition that the municipal authorities should find difficult to refuse. They have said that they can generate more than Rs 12 crores a year from composting biodegradable wastes and save Rs 3 crores in transportation costs if their traditional role in …
This latest report by the WHO/UNICEF presents current status and trends in 209 countries towards reaching the drinking water & sanitation MDG target, along with an assessment as to what these trends reveal. This report by the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP) confirms that advances …
This report of the Standing Committee on Urban Development deals with action taken by the Government on the recommendations contained in their 38th Report(Fourteenth Lok Sabha) on "Solid Waste Management
Residential welfare associations are a window of opportunity to consolidate loose networks of local associations engaged in activities around urban services. They have changed the dynamics of urban politics. This article attempts to trace how, while working in an increasingly globalised and polarised city like Bangalore, these groups demand a …
The MCD is to rope in city cricketers Ishant Sharma, Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag as a part of its multi-media in public awareness campaign for sanitation drive in the city. The multi-media campaign is to come in the run up to this year's Commnwealth Games being hosted in the …
This note proposes a template for assessing the governance of urban water supply and sanitation (WSS) service providers and its impact of the quality of service and performance of operations. The template can be used for decentralized autonomous public corporations responsible for providing the WSS service to customers as well …
NEW DELHI: A comprehensive plan has been drawn up to ensure fool-proof sanitation arrangements during the upcoming Commonwealth Games under which a new collection system, use of better bins and wearing of uniforms by the staff would be ensured. The decision was taken at a high-level meeting called by Delhi …
Uttar pradesh chief minister Mayawati reportedly complained recently of foul odour from an open drain with sewage near her Kautilya Marg residence in New Delhi. There was no formal complaint, just her word. The New Delhi Municipal Council had to act. On November 14, at Rs 8.5 lakh annually, it …
In a recent experiment, conducted May through July 2009, Kanpur Nagar Nigam invited WWF India to carry out a pilot project as part of its living Ganga programme under a 5-year WWF HSBC climate partnership. A 2.5 km stretch of a drain in Kanpur was handed over to J M …
book>> Of Poverty and Plastics • by Kaveri Gill • OUP • Rs 695 What happens when poverty meets plastic? Economist Kaveri Gill’s research suggests the result is entrepreneurialism—hard-won and struggling still—plus a greening of the city. In her book, Of Poverty and Plastics, this idea, among several others, is …
