Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
Agra: Days after TOI reported that Agra Municipal Corporation's plan to appoint a Kanpur-based company to dispose the city's biomedical waste was in violation of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) norms, the UPPCB has cancelled AMC's proposal to sign a temporary three-month contract with Medical Pollution Control Committee (MPCC). …
AGRA: While Agra is getting all spruced up for Will-Kat's visit on April 16, possibilities of closure of the city's lone biomedical treatment waste disposal plant, a day earlier, looms large, leaving over 3,500 kgs of hazardous waste from hospitals in the city lying undisposed. With the near 2000 hospitals …
The owners of all new buildings will have to provide separate coloured bins to collect dry waste. TAKING note of the flak it received from the state government, the High Court as well as citizens over the poor waste management system which led to the fire at the Deonar dumping …
The Environment ministry released the new Bio-medical Waste Management Rules, 2016 which will bring in a wider and more comprehensive regime for bio waste management. The new bio-medical waste management rules will change the way country used to manage this waste earlier. Under the new regime, the coverage has increased …
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has notified the E-Waste Management Rules, 2016 in supersession of the e-waste (Management & Handling) Rules, 2011. Announcing the notification of the rules, Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, said that norms have been made more stringent …
Minister for Environment and Forests Bojjala Gopalakrishna Reddy inaugurates the office of Safe Medi Aides Minister for Environment and Forests Bojjala Gopalakrishna Reddy has said every individual must play a role in protecting the environment to create a pollution-free society. Speaking after inaugurating the office of Safe Medi Aides set …
KOCHI: Waste management will soon be a matter of worry for households in Kochi. The City Corporation, which collects the garbage from neighbouring municipalities and recycles it at its Brahmapuram plant, is planning to close down the plant for other municipalities owing to the dilapidated condition of existing plant and …
Students in Pimpri Chinchwad will participate in a plastic garbage free city on Saturday as part of a campaign by the Union environment ministry. Executive engineer of PCMC environment department Sanjay Kulkarni said, "Over 50,000 students from 150 secondary schools in the city will participate in the drive from 8.30am …
KOLHAPUR: The civic body has issued notices to three clinics in the past last two days and imposed a penalty of Rs 15,000 on one of them for allegedly dumping biomedical waste in the garbage collection container. The Biomedical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2015 have made it mandatory for …
Garbage crisis is looming large over Bangarpet with the garbage processing unit yet to begin functioning. As much as 24 metric tonnes of garbage from Bangarpet town is being duped on five acres of land near Byadabale, according to the villagers. A large number of dogs could be seen around …
This report reviews the experience of Cebu City, one of the fastest growing cities in the Philippines, based on the quick assessment and case study analysis and gives some policy recommendations for the local decision makers and city officials in Cebu City as well as other developing cities in developing …
KOCHI: The state cabinet on Tuesday granted approval to set up the proposed waste-to-energy solid waste treatment plant at Brahmapuram. The project has been awarded to GL Nature Care Consortium. The annual excess expenditure of Rs 6.34 crore to implement the project will be met with Suchitwa Mission funds. The …
To request TCP dept to continue to mark the area identified for the project as GTZ under RP 2021 PANJIM: The Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) has now decided to conduct the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) study of the proposed modernized solid waste treatment plant at Bainguinim. The …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Action plan for scientific disposal of e-wastes and bio-medical wastes, 21/12/2015. For disposal of bi-medical waste generated in the Country, 198 Common bio-Medical Waste Treatment and Disposal facilities have been installed and approval for another 28 have been given. So far, 148 dismantlers / …
Bio-medical waste to be treated at Hubbali-Dharwad CBMWTF until facility becomes operational PANJIM: Goa’s first Common Biomedical Waste Treatment Facility (CBMWTF) would be set up at Kundaim Industrial Estate, with Goa Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) allotting 10,000 sq mtrs of land for it. On an average, the State generates around …
The Bengaluru Urban district administration has identified 79 abandoned quarries, covering an area of 184 acres on the outskirts of the City, to serve as landfills for the piling City garbage which has no takers. Once filled up, these pits which often lead to accidents, may be used to house …
Following directives from the High Court, GSPCB has called for a hearing of Anjuna-Caisua VP, Directorate of Panchayats and the petitioner to work out ad hoc measures to ensure that the panchayat carries out collection, segregation and disposal of garbage scientifically. The High Court, in an order last week observed …
The government’s Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) cell has okayed a Rs.295-crore solid waste treatment plant in Brahmapuram. The cell has given in-principle approval for the financial and technical proposals submitted by one of the companies that participated in the tender process. The Hindu has learnt from senior officials close to the development …
Garbage black spots emerge in City, rains make matters worse These are some of the dirty corners in the City captured by Deccan Herald photographers at (clockwise from top left) Banaswadi railway station; Bore Bank Road, William Town; Assaye Road; Ashoka Pillar Road (Siddapura); Ulsoor lake road; Hayes Road; Prof …
The NGT, in its first hearing of a petition filed by city-based environmentalist Vivek Kamboj and Amit Chaudhery on groundwater contamination at Bandhwari on Wednesday, ordered the municipal corporations of Gurgaon and Faridabad to ensure proper dumping of waste, maintenance and collection of already dumped waste while ensuring that it …
