Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
With the Union cabinet last week deciding to establish a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) to speed up the ongoing clean Ganga mission, the Centre will soon set up a company for implementation of river cleaning projects under the Public Private Partnership mode which will eventually construct and operationalise sewage treatment …
Gurgaon: Huda has expedited the process of land acquisition for a sewage treatment plant (STP) in Sector 107, following an NGT order asking the authority to use "emergency clauses of land acquisition law" to meet the March 2017 deadline for the project. The 175 MLD (million litres per day) capacity …
LUCKNOW: Union water resources, river development and Ganga rejuvenation minister Uma Bharti on Tuesday announced projects worth Rs 78 crore to cover upgrading of STP (sewage treatment plant) and diversion of drainage at Anupshahr in Bulandshahr district. Bharti was at Anupshahr as part of her inspection of prominent ghats and …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Omprakash Vs. State of Rajasthan & Ors. dated 05/01/2016 regarding sewerage system for the Sujangarh town, Rajasthan. Counsel appearing for the Sujangarh Municipal Council has filed additional affidavit dated 02-01- 2016 revealing the fact that the detailed report of the …
The principal purpose of the handbook is to present an up-to-date review of available design, performance, operation and maintenance, cost, and energy information pertaining to the receiving, treatment, and disposal of septage. Septage is the liquid and solid material pumped from a septic tank or cesspool when it is cleaned. …
The principal purpose of the handbook is to present an up-to-date review of available design, performance, operation and maintenance, cost, and energy information pertaining to the receiving, treatment, and disposal of septage. Septage is the liquid and solid material pumped from a septic tank or cesspool when it is cleaned. …
The EPA's struggle to protect health and the environment is seen through each of its official publications. These publications outline new policies, detail problems with enforcing laws, document the need for new legislation, and describe new tactics to use to solve these issues. This collection of publications ranges from historic …
Officials of the State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) have decided to study the mechanism of waste disposal in Parwanoo, Kala Amb and Kasauli. During an inter-state meeting between officials of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal and Chandigarh, officials of the Haryana government had complained that untreated waste from the bordering towns entered …
DEHRADUN: In an important step to check river pollution, the Uttarakhand Environment Protection Pollution Control Board (UEPPCB) has issued a notice to the industries, ashrams and hotels of Haridwar not to dispose sewage into the Ganga. It directed the bodies to make their own arrangements of sewage treatment plants (STPs) …
The pollution status of river Pampa in the foothills of Sabarimala has recorded an alarming e-coli count in the last lap of the just-concluded Mandalam pilgrim season. The Kerala State Pollution Control Board (PCB) has recorded an e-coli count of 3,50,000 and above in every 100 ml of water in …
The Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment & Forests, present this Two Hundred Sixty-ninth Report on "Environmental issues of Himachal Pradesh in General and Shimla in Particular". The Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment & Forests undertook a study visit to Shimla from 14th …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on River Pollution in Hilly Areas, 22/12/2015. The NGRBA programme along with work of Ganga & its tributaries is with Ministry of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation from 01/08/2014 onwards. So far under the NRCP & NGRBA programmes, river pollution abatement works amounting …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Shobha Singh & Ors. V/s State of Punjab & Ors. dated 18/12/2015 regarding pollution of river Satluj. Grievance is made that the sewerage is being released in river Satluj by STP at Sultanpur Lodhi and Basti Peerdaad in State of …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Dr. Alankrita Mehra Vs. Union of India & Others dated 17/12/2015 regarding construction and other development activities, taking place in the catchment area of the upper lake including the city of Bhopal. All the development permissions …
Panaji: The Goa state pollution control board (GSPCB) has started filing criminal cases against industries, hotels, resorts etc for violating provisions of the Air Act and Water Act. The board has recently filed criminal complaints against six violators under these Acts. The board has filed cases against units for discharging …
After a two-month-long river rafting expedition along the Ganga, the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) team has found that pollution level in the river is “very high” in Uttar Pradesh. “In U.P., bodies of human and animal carcasses, are left to decompose in the river. Turtles, which clean the river, are …
Restoration of Water Quality of river Ganga is high on the National Agenda. The Government is committed to put its best effort to bring back the sanctity of the river. The major cause of concern of river Ganga relates to disposal of un-treated/partially treated sewage into the river and using …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Capacity of Sewage Treatment Plants, 08/12/2015. As per the report of Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) published in March 2015, sewage generation from urban areas is estimated at around 62,000 mld, whereas the total treatment capacity available is only 23,277 mld (37% of the …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Funds for Sewage Treatment Plants, 08/12/2015. During the last two years, Rs 558.95 crore has been released to the State Governments under NRCP & NGRBA (upto 01/08/2014) programmes for implementation of various pollution abatement schemes, which inter-alia include interception & diversion of raw sewage, …
