Reply by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in compliance to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order dated January 21, 2024 in the matter of ‘News item titled “Feeling anxious? Toxic air could be to blame” appearing in Times of India dated 10.10.2023’. NGT had directed CPCB to file a …
This advisory on tariff structure for urban water supply and sewerage services is an effort to provide guidance to states and cities in adopting suitable water/sewerage tariff so as to recover 100% cost to meet at least O&M; requirements to begin with. This will improve the service delivery to the …
New Delhi: Authorities now face a jail term of five years for hazardous cleaning of septic tanks and sewers. The Cabinet on Thursday cleared a new legislation to end manual scavenging, with stiff penalties against the dehumanizing practice. The bill also proposes a rehabilitation package for scavengers. Agencies or families …
The Delhi Cabinet on Monday put on track a plan to redesign and upgrade the city’s drainage network that has not grown since it was first built nearly three decades ago. IIT-Delhi will offer consultancy in preparing the Master Plan of Drainage, which, unlike before, will be made with help …
New Delhi: Despite various guidelines issued by the Delhi high court and Supreme Court for protection of sewage cleaners, incidents of sewer deaths continue to multiply. Sources claim there have been at least 40 sewer related deaths in the last six months in the capital and yet the guidelines have …
The Sheila Dikshit Government is all set to appoint Professor AK Gosain, Head of the Civil Engineering Department, as consulting-in-charge on behalf of the Industrial Research and Development Unit of IIT Delhi for preparation of ‘Master Plan for Drainage for NCT of Delhi’. The Delhi Government is bringing a proposal …
In a bid to bring in uniformity in water charges collected, as well as in the accounting systems in the expanded areas of the city, Chennai Metrowater will soon appoint a consultancy firm. The chosen firm will also identify and evaluate infrastructure and study the facilities available in the added …
New Delhi: While the Central government is working on strengthening the existing Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrine Prohibition Act,1993, seeking to ensure rehabilitation of those engaged in such dehumanizing labour, activists say that thousands of manhole workers continue to work in inhuman conditions. MCD, DJB and …
New Delhi: Municipal corporation or state officials could face two years in jail or Rs 2 lakh fine for the familiar sight of bare torsos plumbing the depths of sewer tanks to clean the muck with their hands. The Centre proposes to ban ‘hazardous manual cleaning of sewers and septic …
India’s burgeoning cities and interventionist policies have aggravated the threat from natural disasters, the World Bank and United Nations said on Thursday. They emphasised the importance of preventive measures to minimize loss of life and property from natural hazards and the need to raise awareness so that governments are pressed …
New Delhi: Consumers who do not have a Delhi Jal Board (DJB) connection, but discharge their sewage into its system, will now have to pay sewage charges. The body took this decision at its board meeting on Thursday. It has also extended its rebate scheme on payment of arrears to …
In a bid to conserve water, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is gearing up to recycle sewage water and reuse it for non-potable purposes. If all goes as per plan, by 2015 the city will have seven sewage water treatment plants. The city generates 1,700 million litre daily (MLD) of …
An underground pipeline on Sardar Patel Marg will carry an unusual substance: 60,000 litres of treated sewage water from a five-star hotel to a city forest. The Department of Environment and ITC Maurya hotel will utilise the treated waste water from the hotel for creating irrigation facilities at the Central …
Seeping sewage into the basement of their residential complex has prompted about 100 families of Sharda and Vivekananda, two blocks of Gadadhar Apartments, at Adarshnagar in Sonari to knock on the doors of BJP leader Sarayu Roy. The residents approached the former MLA after the Jamshedpur Notified Area Committee (JNAC), …
Filthy water flowed out of the blocked main sewerage pipe in government quarters of Block-M at Top Sherkhania today, causing a lot of inconvenience to residents as water entered their houses. The stagnant sewerage water emitted stink in the whole block and made hellish situation for the residents. These quarter, …
CHENNAI: Every year, about 20,000 water and sewer connections are added to the existing sewerage network in the ever expanding city. Despite Chennai Metrowater
HERALD REPORTER MARGAO, JAN 14 Stench and litter pervades major water nullahs in the Commercial Capital as sewage and waste water flows unhindered in the water channels in the absence of sewerage network. The problem is further compounded by the fact that concerned authorities, including the Margao Civic body have …
Govrnor sets March 09 deadline for Srinagar sewerage project SRINAGAR, July 21: Governor, N N Vohra, today set a deadline of March 2009 for completion of the mega Drainage and Sewerage Project for the Srinagar City and called for establishing a Task Force to ensure round the clock work on …
