Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect and poor maintenance appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 25.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect …
Strict protocol laid down for handling and disposal of biomedical waste has gone for a toss in the city and some districts, particularly Howrah and Haldia. The way hospitals, nursing homes and pathological labs are disposing of toxic waste has exposed lakhs to infection and water contamination. A TOI survey …
RAIPUR: In absence of valid authorisation for disposal of biomedical wastes, more than 50 state-run health care establishments in Chhattisgarh, including district hospitals and medical colleges, are putting public health and environment at grave risk by throwing them in normal garbage bins. Comptroller Auditor General (CAG) made these observations in …
Serious lacunae have been observed by Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) in handling of bio-medical waste produced from various hospitals of Chhattisgarh. The three incinerators established by State Government in Korba, Jagdalpur and Kanker remained unused and instead, a private Incinerator was being used, CAG report released here …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Nadeem Iqbal Vs. Nagar Nigam, Bareilly & Ors. dated 24/07/2015 regarding biomedical waste disposal in Bareilly District of Uttar Pradesh.
Nagpur: Despite being a 1,500-bed hospital, Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) does not have a valid authorization for disposal of its biomedical waste. Nor does the 200-bed Super Specialty Hospital (SSH), located on the same premises, have it. The two don't even have an effluent treatment plant. This led …
CO lodges police complaint against unknown persons for dumping placenta in a public bin VASCO: The Mormugao Municipal Council has decided to start a crackdown on reckless dumping of biomedical waste in public places. The decision was taken as hazardous biomedical waste was found dumped in a bin meant only …
The Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) has issued notices to around 85 hospitals, including the government-run General Hospital in Sector 10, for neither applying for authorization to dispose of biomedical waste (BMW) nor following disposal norms. While the General Hospital was served a show-cause notice, the others, including big …
The Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) said on Wednesday none of the 85 hospitals in the city have applied for authorization for disposing of biomedical waste (BMW). This includes the government-run General Hospital in Sector 10. "None of the city hospitals, including a government one, follow our biomedical waste …
Concern over handling of untreated waste The recent capacity enhancement of the biomedical treatment plant of the Kerala unit of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) at Manthuruthi, near Malampuzha, here has come as a major relief to the local community. The people had been concerned over the plant’s inability to …
Six government and private hospitals, including All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Bhopal have been pulled up by National Green Tribunal (NGT) for failing to comply with bio-medical waste (BMW) rules. Notices have been issued to JK Hospital, Shekhar Hospital, City Hospital, Globus Hospital and National Hospital besides AIIMS …
Residents of Sukhdev Vihar have won a long-drawn battle against a biomedical waste plant near their colony. Delhi government has refused to renew the contract of Synergy Waste Management Pvt Limited which expired on May 18. Residents said eight years of campaigning had finally of campaigning had finally reached a …
The Delhi High Court first ordered the closure of the plant over possible health hazards and pollution concerns over two years ago. The 10-year contract of the city’s oldest biomedical waste treatment plant in Okhla, which caters to around 1,600 hospitals producing six-seven tonnes of waste daily, expires on Tuesday, …
Licence of capital’s oldest treatment plant, which caters to about 1,600 hospitals, expires on May 18. In two weeks, the contract of the capital’s oldest biomedical waste treatment plant, which caters to around 1,600 hospitals, will expire. Together, these hospitals produce six-seven tonnes of waste daily. Two years ago, the …
The city has around 1,500 general practitioners but just 250 of them have been registered with the firm appointed to collect and dispose of the biomedical waste generated in the city. And, the Satara-based firm has threatened to stop the service after May 5 since the doctors have been found …
Lagos — The Lagos State government has invested N22 billion in recycling of waste materials, the Managing Director of Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA), Ola Oresanya has disclosed. He said the money was expended on the conversion of domestic and medical wastes to useful materials. Oresanya spoke yesterday at the …
There has been a 16 per cent increase in daily generation of bio-medical waste in 2012-13 as against a marginal increase of 0.33 per cent the year ago, Lok Sabha was informed today. Karnataka was the highest producer of bio-waste at 83,614 kg per day, followed by Maharashtra, which produced …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Dr. Alankrita Mehra Vs. Union of India & Nine Ors. dated 12/03/2015 regarding government medical facilities and establishments not following biomedical waste rules in Madhya Pradesh.
HC orders KSPCB to file report The High Court has directed the environment officers of Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB), Belagavi division, to file a report on what action they have taken against healthcare units disposing biomedical waste in water bodies in that district. A division bench of Chief …
Against government guidelines, biomedical waste continues to be dumped in open places in the city. Hazardous biomedical waste can be found like household garbage on roadsides, posing danger to human beings and the environment. On Ring Road, biomedical waste is joining the heaps of household garbage, solid waste and poultry …
Patna: BMW, this word brings out the picture of a high-end lurxury car. But today, this also means biomedical wastes, which can cost one's life. The wastes generated from hospitals like syringes, drug bottles, removed plaster and human anatomical parts are termed biomedical wastes (BMW), which are being disposed of …
