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 …
The Government has sanctioned a grant of Rs 35 lakh to Bicholim Muncipal Council (BMC), to purchase space for the disposal of garbage at Lakherim in Bordem-Bicholim. Speaking to reporters, BMC Mayor Satish Gaonkar stated that the garbage disposal site selected by BMC belongs to Bordem Comunidade. "The Bordem Comunidade …
Protesting against the Quepem Municipal Council's (QMC) failure to lift garbage, Opposition Councillors on Thursday served an eight-day ultimatum, threatening to dump the same in front of the municipality building. Councillors Rahul Pereira, Cathy Fernandes, Nana Gaonkar and Antoneitta Simoes led the villagers in the morcha which started from Quepem …
Amid furor in the House over plans to set up waste treatment plant at Bainguinim, the Government today decided to appoint a House committee, which will identify a site for disposal of garbage collected from the municipal limits of Corporation of City of Panaji (CCP). Replying to Calling Attention Motion …
Japan will urge people to carry their own chopsticks instead of using disposables and to shop with their own bags instead of using plastic ones in a bid to more than halve the garbage it produces. The Cabinet approved a set of plans Tuesday to promote a recycling society, said …
Garbage mountains are to be a thing of the past with guidelines to be issued shortly for collection of all garbage before 6 a.m. from road sides and street corners. The Environment and Natural Resources Ministry is set to issue guidelines giving effect to this decision to all local authorities. …
Environment Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka urged local government authorities who are responsible for collecting solid waste to clean garbage on road sides by 6 a.m. starting from April 1. Ceremonially inaugurating the first ever National Solid Waste Management Programme
President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday launched the National Solid Waste Management programme Pilisaru which is envisaged to propagate the vision of making Sri Lanka a country free of solid waste by 2012. Launching the biggest programme of its kind with an allocation of Rs.600 million, the President emphasised that the country's …
The Cunchelim Action Committee (CAC), residents of Cunchelim, Ward I of the Mapuca Municipal Council (MMC), have reiterated their opposition to plans by the MMC to acquire land for the proposed garbage disposal site in their area. Incidentally, the Cunchelim Communidade has also opposed the move to acquire its land …
VARIOUS NGOs like S.A.R.F. (Smoke Affected Residents Forum), Rotary Club of Mumbai, Ghatkopar, Pestom Sagar Citizens' Forum, Go Green, Chembur Residents Forum, Petrol Dealers' Association, Rotaract Club of Mumbai Ghatkopar, Shanti Sudha Park Residents Association are staging a protest near Chedda Nagar flyover on Monday, March 24 at 9.30 AM. …
The Environment and Natural Resources Ministry has introduced a national policy on solid waste management. Minister of Environment Champika Ranawaka said several problems have arisen due to improper solid waste management. It will be solved within three years at a cost of Rs. 65 billion. The project titled 'Pilisaru' is …
The largest waste management project of Sri Lanka , encompassing all its Local Governments and Provincial councils, will be inaugurated by President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Presidential Secretariat today. The Treasury has released Rs.600 million for the project. The Government of Korea has pledged Rs. 400 million as aid for …
The dumping of garbage barely 500 metres from the Dabolim Airport has posed a serious threat to planes at the Dabolim airport, with three cases of planes being hit by birds in January alone. Despite laws prohibiting garbage sites in close proximity to the airport, garbage and waste from houses …
Another four modern garbage stations at an estimated cost of Rs 8 crore are being planned for the city in Zones 2, 4, 5 and 7, and they will be completed within next six months. These projects will be executed with the funds allotted by the Central Government through its …
The Central Environment Authority (CEA) is to take the initiative to solve the garbage problem completely by the year 2012 by providing necessary assistance to local authorities countrywide. CEA Chairman Udaya Gammampila said they will achieve their objective through the implementation of its
Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) Chief Medical Officer Dr. Pradeep Kariyawasam yesterday said the number of Chikungunya cases may double with the onset of the rainy season in the city as shortage of staff has badly crippled day-to-day functions of his department. There are many reported cases in Bambalapitiya where a …
As a five-member committee of the city government meets on Monday to finalize the ratio of the proposed tax on garbage collection, Karachiites are likely to be taxed ignorant of the fact that they are already paying for the service.Senior council members and official sources privy to the proposal said …
Three trucks were stopped by locals of Loutolim after they were caught red-handed while dumping industrial waste at Devoti in Loutolim village on Thursday noon. The Maina Curtorim police later seized the three vehicles and arrested the drivers, besides the owner of the trucks under Section 34 of the Indian …
Panjim based businessman and the Chairman and Managing Director of Alcon Enterprises, Anil Counto today said that his two acre land at Tonca which facilitated dumping of the City Corporation's solid waste was never used to settle political scores but is presently in a mess and cannot be used any …
Plans by the Mapusa Municipal Council (MMC) to set up a garbage disposal site has received a major setback, with the Cunchelim Communidade strongly opposing moves to acquire 32,050 sq mtrs of their land for the proposed project. "We have already written a letter to the North Goa collector, conveying …
