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 …
Guwahati Press Club has decided to study the problem of garbage management in Northeast with special reference to biomedical wastes. This was stated in a press release. This is a known fact that Guwahati is the crowded city with a population of nearly 20,00,000 and produces heaps of garbages everyday. …
The programme, to begin in July, will involve tie-ups with private parties through shredding, deep burial listing priorities: Special Secretary, Health and Project Director of Tamil Nadu Health Systems Project P.W.C. Davidar explains biomedical waste management at a workshop in Coimbatore on Thursday. The State is set to begin more …
Dhaka Medical College Hospital will be brought under the medical wastes management programme soon as part of the initiative to reduce the risk of health hazards. The DMCH nurses, ward boys and management staff are being imparted training and an orientation programme for the physicians will be held on completion …
Less than 20 per cent of Dhaka's public and private healthcare establishments, including hospitals, clinics and diagnostic centres have, so far, been covered by the medical waste management system to protect public health from hazardous medical wastes. The private hospitals, clinics and pathological centres in Dhaka are producing around 400 …
An estimated 1,800 hospitals in Maharashtra have not yet applied to the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) for authorisation to dispose off bio medical waste (BMW). Efforts have been initiated to know about the methods used to dispose off such waste as it can lead to a pollution problem of …
On not being satisfied with the present arrangement on disposal of bio-medical waste, the High Court has asked the government to file an affidavit on the matter. While hearing a suo motto petition on garbage, the Bombay High Court at Goa on Tuesday directed Secretary Health to file an affidavit …
The committee to save rivers at a press conference at the Khulna Press Club on Wednesday put forward their 10-point charter of demands to save the River Moyur that flows by the western side of the city. The committee alleged that about nine kilometre stretch of the Moyur has turned …
The absence of a system for registration and regulation of hospitals and clinics run in the private sector has hindered the city district government's efforts to properly manage hospital waste. A source in the municipal services department of the CDGK said that about nine months ago, an exercise was launched …
By June this year, the bio-medical waste generated from municipal and private hospitals and medical institutions will be stored and disposed of at a common bio-medical waste treatment facility at Deonar dumping ground. The BMC will soon start developing the common disposal facility over 4,000 sq metre of land at …
Biomedical waste, including syringes, items contaminated with body fluids and animal carcasses continue to be illegally dumped in yards marked for municipal waste, in contravention of both the Solid Waste Management Rules 2000 and the Biomedical Waste Management Rules 1998. At Kodungaiyur, hardly a hundred yards from the entrance to …
Seventy kilometres from Bangalore, a lorry veered off the main road and headed in an unusual direction: towards groundnut fields in Yadagere village of Karnataka's Tumkur district. It stopped at an unsown field in the middle of nowhere. Torches were flashing in the dark. A flurry of activities followed, disturbing …
The management of biomedical waste in health centres, clinics and hospitals is gaining importance in recent times, since it has a lot of hazards and impacts on people and environment. In this study, an attempt has been made to categorize, to quantify and to characterize the biomedical waste (BMW) generated …
Due to rapid growth of population and industrialization and urbanization there is a substantial increase in hospital and private nursing home as well as pathology labs in Satna. Thus the hospital waste is also increasing day by day.
Construction work was stopped at a biomedical waste incineration facility in Rajasthan's Kota district following opposition from local people. Construction of the plant started in March 2007 without any environmental impact assessment or permission from the state pollution control board. Residents feared the plant would contaminate their water resources. The …
Bio-medical waste has emerged as an issue of major concern not only to hospitals and nursing homes but also to environmental law enforcement agencies, media and the general people. (2007)
The plasma pyrolysis plant of the Goa Medical College at Bambolim is facing stiff opposition from environmentalists across the state who demand the plant's immediate closure. Green groups claim the plasma pyrolysis plant has been operating since July 2004 without environmental clearance from the Central Pollution Control Board (cpcb). "We …
MUMBAI'S medical waste mess got further complicated after a public interest petition was filed by A M Mascarenhas of the Consumer Welfare Association, a voluntary organisation. The petition, filed with the Bombay High Court (HC), hopes that "government and authorities concerned (should) construct and install incinerators in all hospitals/nursing homes …
the Delhi Government has made the use of degradable plastic compulsory in the city's hospitals and hospitality sector. It recently issued a notification to this effect. But some experts have criticised the fact that the order applies only to restaurants with a seating capacity of over 100 people and hospitals …
From 2005, mohfw (Union ministry of health and family welfare) plans to introduce auto-disable (ad) syringes under its Universal Immunisation Programme (uip). ad syringes are supposed to better reduce the risk of disease transmission than glass or disposable syringes (currently in use), because they lock up after the shot is …
