Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Come December 4 and the Margao Municipal Council will kick off an intensive campaign across the Commercial Capital to create awareness amongst the citizens on waste segregation and door-to-door garbage collection. The campaign is intended to bring about awareness on waste segregation as the civic body will start door-to-door garbage …
ON THE SPOT - JODHPUR LAKE Garbage strewn in Jodhpur Lake Just five years after it was renovated in 2003 at a cost of Rs 32 lakh, Jodhpur Lake and the adjoining park, located just behind the place where the Jodhpur Park Durga puja is held, has turned into a …
The Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) is soon going to do away with the old garbage trucks with its new garbage cleaning mechanism becoming fully operational from December 1. The garbage-picking trucks, hired by the corporation on contract were always criticized by common people because of their unsatisfactory performance.
An effective management of solid waste, according to the Ministry of Urban Development, involved a multi-material, multi-source, environmentally sustainable management approach, with following activities associated with it: waste generation; waste handling and sorting, storage and processing at source; collection; sorting, processing and transformation; transfer and transport; and disposal. It was …
Minister of Environment and Natural Resources Patali Champika Ranawaka said though one billion rupees had been invested on conservation of the environment the forests, the environment gave a return worth 59 billion rupees annually. The new yardstick of measuring development was the prevention of environmental pollution. "Though superficially we were …
MARGAO, NOV 24 Even as the Margao Municipal Council is bracing up to handle the tones of waste on scientific lines, a new problem is raising its ugly head and staring at the Civic body. Miscreants
City roads will soon present a smoother ride. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will now take up works for the improvement of more than 60 roads, including major ones. The works had been budgeted for and approved but got stalled after civic contractors refused to begin work owing to lack …
As civic body struggles with solid waste, apartment complexes may soon have to manage the waste in their own backyard, writes Kannal Achuthan By 2015, Chennai will run out of space to dump garbage in Kodungaiyur and Perungudi yards. The need to put solid waste management systems in place is …
Can a municipal corporation refuse to lift garbage even after it has been properly segregated? This is the question the Corporation of the City of Panjim (CCP) is going to have to answer. Yesterday, the CCP said it would stop collecting garbage from 42 hotels and restaurants in the city, …
The Corporation of City of Panaji (CCP), as per a decision taken Monday, refused to collect hotel and restaurant waste even as the government is trying to make renewed efforts to resolve the crisis. A hotel and restaurant delegation called on Urban Development Minister Joaquim Alemao at his residence Tuesday …
Composting units became a reality in the Commercial Capital on Tuesday as per the orders of the High Court mandating the Civic bodies to set up these units to tackle garbage problem. A total of three composting units were commissioned in the city at the hands of Chief Minister, Digambar …
MARGAO, NOV 17 Come Tuesday and the Margao Municipal Council will not just experiment for the first time treating waste and garbage through composting units, but will set in motion a process with the help of nursing homes and clinics to tackle growing bio-medical waste. And, if newly-elected civic Chairperson, …
MERCES, NOV 17 With the issue of garbage threatening to haunt Curca yet again, villagers resolved to oppose tooth and nail the moves by CCP to get temporary reprieve to dump garbage in the village. The resolution was adopted at a meeting attended by over 100 villagers in the presence …
The colonies of Kolar municipality are filled with garbage and filth and stray cattle can be seen 24 hours feeding on the garbage. Time and again the Municipal authorities give assurances of getting the area cleaned. In the Municipality there are 174 sanitary employees but they seldom work. The Municipality …
Because it sends its garbage to pollute a nearby village SINCE 1983, all the municipal garbage from the city of Pune in Maharashtra has travelled 12 km to be dumped in the village of Urali-Devachi. More than 1,000 tonnes each day. Spread across 43 hectares, the dump pollutes the area. …
Mumbai's civic body has come up with a plan to generate nearly 4 MW of power from a closed garbage dump, even while the open surface is turned into a nine-hole golf course. Apart from doing its bit to improve Mumbai's power supply, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will also …
OLD GOA, NOV 12 Moves by the City of Corporation of Panjim (CCP) to ask the State government to go ahead with the land acquisition process at Bainguinim for the proposed garbage treatment plant have prompted angry reactions from St Cruz MLA Victoria Fernandes. While opposing the proposed garbage treatment …
Kannal Achuthan, Chennai: Solid waste management experts, from various parts of the country, presented innovative and feasible models of handling municipal garbage at a meeting here on Tuesday. At an interaction organised by Kalakshetra Colony and Besant Nagar residents, the experts discussed case studies on managing waste. Jyoti Mhapsekar of …
