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 …
Four major and 338 minor facilities are law breakers: Pollution Control Board Rashmi Menon, Bangalore, November 28, DH News Service: Four 100+ bed private hospitals and 338 smaller hospitals in the State are in violation of the rule that makes it mandatory for all government as well as private hospitals …
Kakinada, Oct. 13: To make state hospitals dustbin free, the state government has announced a new sanitation policy which is already being implemented from October 1 in some select districts including East and West Godavari. Government is spending nearly Rs 52 crore per ann-um on sanitation staff besid-es material for …
Several hospitals in the city are not heeding to the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) norms of treatment and disposal of bio-medical waste. Over 50% of the hospitals sell off their bio-medical waste such as worn out disposable syringes, saline bottles, suction pipes used for blood transfusion and glucose, scissors …
Union Ministry holds up eco clearance for various projects Main sources of pollution are industries, municipal garbage and hospital waste Industries agree to spend Rs. 150 crore for pollution control measures KOCHI: An action plan with short and long-term measures has been chalked out by the Kerala State Pollution Control …
VELLORE: Pennathur town panchayat councillor A.M. Venkatesan complained to the Tamil Nadu Assembly Petitions Committee, which visited the Government Vellore Medical College Hospital (GVMCH) in Adukkamparai on Tuesday, that liquid effluents discharged by the hospital were let into an irrigation tank in Sabdalipuram leading to contamination of groundwater in the …
KOLKATA, 2 SEPT: The state pollution control board has lodged an FIR against a person who operated an illegal biomedical waste dump yard in Chowbaga, South 24 Parganas and used to sell the waste from several big and reputed private hospitals and nursing homes of the city as plastic scrap …
THE Madras HC has restrained the SRM University from letting out waste water, soaked sewer age, medical waste and other untreated biomedical w a s t e f ro m t h ei r premises to the sur rounding places and housing colo nies. A d iv i s i …
CUTTACK: With improper biomedical waste handling and disposal at the hospitals in the City continuing to raise concerns despite the directions of the Orissa High Court, the district administration today announced setting up of a Special Task Force to assess the health institutions and recommend action against the violators. The …
Kumar Manish | TNN Ahmedabad: Business of illegal disposal of bio-medical waste has started again. Over 150 kg bio-medical waste containing needles, syringes, blood bags, vials and other material was seized from a godown in Ghatlodia on Tuesday. The material was neatly packed in plastic bags. This proves that a …
Deepa H Ramakrishnan CHENNAI: The common biomedical waste facility functioning at Thenmelpakkam in Kancheepuram district is all set for an upgrade, with the Global Environment Fund, an international funding body under the United Nations Development Programme, agreeing to provide $2,58,000 for the project. The upgrade would involve strengthening of the …
In a bid to have better outcome in biomedical waste management through upgraded technology, the Directorate Health Services (DHS) has gone into overdrive to have new biomedical waste management (BMW) facilities, one at Okhla and other at Nilothi in outer Delhi. The DHS has already issued expression of interests and …
Three months ago, in March, customs officials at the Tuticorin port in Tamil Nadu seized 20 containers carrying 500 tonnes of diapers, sanitary napkins, under-garments, surgical gloves—all used—along with shoe soles, broken toys, perfume bottles, aluminium foil packing material, batteries and bottles. These products, labelled waste paper consignment, were on …
A first of its kind workshop on pollution control action plan for bio-medical waste management in Haridwar city was organised by the Pollution Control Research Institute (PCRI). The workshop was inaugurated by Executive Director of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) Haridwar DK Mody and was attended by medical professionals and …
Welcome to a quarry-filled Pallikaranai Once the marsh is filled, they can construct huge buildings there. What an idea! -- Shaju IT'S 2 am. A truck stops near the `Litter Free Zone' hoarding at the Pallavaram-Thoraippakkam Radial road by the Pallikaranai marsh. The driver switches off the headlights and presses …
The new waste management model should require each firm and each consumer to pay a price for recycling and disposal Should India import and reprocess the world
DIBRUGARH, May 18: Scientific disposal of biomedical waste eludes Dibrugarh despite the setting up of an incinerator at Assam Medical College (AMC) here. The only institution currently using the facility is AMC itself. The cotton gauge, syringes and other material used in treatment of patients pose a danger to others …
NPCB conducts workshop to create awareness KOHIMA, May 10: A workshop on Bio-medical Waste Management was held at Nagaland Pollution Control Board (NPCB), Conference Hall, Signal Point Dimapur to sensitize the hazards of bio-medical waste. NPCB chairman A Rongsenwati Ao, IFS in his keynote address explained that all those healthcare …
The Delhi Pollution Control Committee has issued notices to Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Hospital and Lok Nayak Jaya Prakash Hospital after it found several deficiencies in their waste management system. Most of the government hospitals in Delhi reportedly don
