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 …
Ahmedabad: While every urban local body seems to be in the race to claim a respectable position in cleanliness in the 150th birth anniversary year of Mahatma Gandhi, and swachhta occupies the imagination of Ahmedabad and the city’s neighbouring nagarpalikas, they don’t seem to realise how Pirana like garbage dumps …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Residents of Balh Panchayat Vs State of Himachal Pradesh dated 06/05/2019 regarding status of waste to energy plants in Himachal Pradesh. Counsel for the State Pollution Control Board submits that waste to energy plant in Manali will become functional by …
About 200 waste pickers marched from Mary Fitzgerald Square in Newtown to the offices of Pikitup and the City of Johannesburg on Thursday morning, GroundUp eported. The march was organised by African Reclaimers Organisation (ARO) - a group formed in 2017 to represent Johannesburg's street and landfill waste pickers. The …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Compliance of Municipal Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016 (State of Manipur) dated 03/05/2019 regarding solid waste management and allied issues in Manipur. The compliance report submitted by Manipur indicates some of the steps taken for solid waste management, which banning …
Tribunal gives Ghaziabad civic body 2 months to take action Following a plea alleging noise pollution caused by “hooters” in garbage collection vehicles in Ghaziabad, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Ghaziabad Nagar Nigam to furnish an action taken report in the matter. A Bench headed by NGT …
MARGAO: Director of Panchayats Rajendra Satardekar on Monday visited Navelim panchayat to set in motion the process to make it one of the six villages in the State that will have a perfect garbage management system in place within the next six months. He disclosed that Navelim was one of …
Indian Oceans missing plastic waste found out by the scientists. Indian Ocean is the world's biggest dumping ground for plastic waste, but where the trash ultimately ends up has remained a mystery, scientists say.According to researchers from the University of Western Australia (UWA), little research had been done to measure …
The National Green Tribunal has directed the Haryana chief secretary to submit an action taken report and take punitive action against the officers for failing to stop leachate from the Bandhwari landfill site. A bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel said this is a classic instance of …
Hardly 200 meters away from the courts, police station and the bus stand Basohli, there are heaps of garbage, organs of the slain animals, feathers and intestines of the butchered chickens littered all along the Basohli Bani Road, making mockery of Government’s ‘Swachh Bharat’ slogan. The place, where the heaps …
PANJIM: The State government has notified six villages and three cities as model cities/towns/village panchayats for effective implementation of the provisions of the Solid Waste Management Rules within six months. In the list of panchayats, Se Old Goa (Tiswadi), Aldona (Bardez), Oxel (Bardez), Navelim (Salcete), Chicalim (Mormugao) and Uguem (Sanguem) …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Vivek Kamboj & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 23/04/2019 regarding solid waste management in Gurgaon, Haryana. The NGT expressed its displeasure at the "incapacity, incompetence and unwillingness of the Municipal Corporation, Gurgaon to perform its duty to …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Compliance of Municipal Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016 (State of Tamil Nadu) dated 23/04/2019 regarding solid waste management and allied issues in Tamil Nadu. A compliance report was submitted by Tamil Nadu indicating the steps taken for solid waste management, …
Knee-deep in water on a picture-postcard Lesbos island beach, a team of Greek university students gently deposits a wall-sized PVC frame on the surface before divers moor it at sea. Holding in plastic bags and bottles, four of the 5 metre-by-5-metre (16 foot-by-16-foot) frames are part of an experiment to …
China's Macao saw its air quality record in 2018 register more days of "Good" and fewer ones of "Poor" in 2018, while the number of days with acid rain decreased from 2017, the special administrative region's statistic service said on Sunday. The latest annual environment report released by the Statistics …
The MPCB had admitted it is “duty-bound” to prepare a proper plan for the disposal of absorbent hygienic product waste. Mumbai: Social activists demanding the proper disposal of sanitary napkins have been asked by the Pune bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to move their public interest litigation (PIL) …
Sudden crackdown on polluting units and the ensuing violence could have been avoided had government agencies been prompt in implementing existing norms, say experts On April 13, a team of government officials, police and paramilitary personnel, came under attack from local scrap dealers while conducting a sealing drive on polluting …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of M. C. Mehta Vs Union of India & Others dated 22/04/2019 regarding the remedial measures to deal with the waste generated during Kumbh at Allahabad. The report received from Justice Arun Tandon, Chairman of the Supervisory Committee states that a …
HYDERABAD: A cannon was found next to an abandoned car with garbage strewn over it in Aliabad close to a fortified wall built by former rulers. Some children, who were playing in a nearby garage, stumbled upon it. There are some more cannons lying in neglect in the area but …
It was easy for Chandigarh to brush off CSE’s findings as a survey by an NGO. Had the civic body paid attention to the findings, city would not have slipped to this rank. CONSIDERED ONE of the cleanest cities in the country, Chandigarh this year slipped to 20th position in …
Dehradun: Despite being relegated to 384th spot in the recently declared Swachh Survekshan 2019, the Dehradun Municipal Corporation (DMC) seems to be paying no attention to the pressing problem of heaps of garbage being set on fire in many parts of the city. Be it at the heart of city …
