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 …
They are seen almost everywhere, rummaging through heaps of garbage. The police harass them and the local people view them with suspicion. Hardly anyone understands the importance of their work. Ragpickers, in fact, do the municipalities a big favour by collecting recyclable wastes from the dump to sell it to …
CLEANING BRIDGE Iqbal Malik, director of Vatavaran, started work on solid waste management way back in 1992. With the help of a few residents in Asiad Village Complex in New Delhi, she launched the Cleaning Brigade (cb) scheme. It was to be a practical, eco-friendly, scientific, zero investment yet income-generating …
India is today one of the filthiest countries in the world but urban India"s garbage disposal can be easily managed if we get rid of the highly-bureaucratised, incompetent and corrupt municipal collection system and make it the responsibility of urban households and communities - literally implement the same participatory paradigm …
Notwithstanding protests from the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) that it encroached upon their jurisdiction, the Delhi government launched its "Clean Delhi' campaign in the Nirman Vihar colony in east Delhi on December 21. Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit had made no bones about her disapproval of the MCD's way …
Four years after a plague that claimed many lives in Surat, Gujarat, the city has become one of the cleanest in India. Out of a total of 1,008 metric tonnes of solid waste generated in the city every day, the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) handles around 960 metric tonnes. This …
Thirty two-year-old Mannoj Ahuja has been living in Janakpuri colony in west Delhi for the last eleven years. He is part of a group of residents who literally live in a lane overflowing with garbage. The stench of rotting wastes and stray dogs rummaging through them, their bodies sullied with …
the sale of tea in mud kulhars by chaiwallahs up and down the country to the 11 million passengers who daily travel by train, has been - like so many of India's indigenous cultural habits, a guarantor of sustainable living, and a model for the industrialised world. The mud kulhars …
India will soon have its first-ever power plant using solid waste as fuel in Perungudi town in Tamil Nadu. The Rs 15-crore plant will require 800 tonnes of solid garbage every day to produce power at full capacity (15 megawatt). The plant's operation is not expected to have any adverse …
Despite maintaining a frugal lifestyle, people in Bhutan continue to dump huge amounts of garbage indiscriminately. This aspect was highlighted in a paper presented by environmentalist Jorgen S Carle at a two-day course on Environmental Management in Bhutan. Titled
the municipal corporation of Delhi's satellite city Faridabad embarked on a project that may well be one of the first of its kind in the country. The corporation has privatised collection and disposal of garbage, which will be converted into dry compost. About 6.5 hectares of land has been allotted …
The Indian coasts are to be opened to accommodate construction activities. There is a debate brewing in the nation today whether this move will benefit the coastal communities or simply fill the coffers of certain powerful lobbies. There is also a feeling that it will thrust the fragile marine ecosystem …
In our haste to reclaim coastal regions for human development we seem to be forgetting one simple rule of nature: what is dumped out will eventually return to us in equal measure
Residents and non-governmental organisations ( ngo s) in Karachi's south district are complaining of piling garbage. They say that the collection system is unsatisfactory and this can lead to an epidemic. In many localities, particularly in the old city, such as Lyari, Mehmoodabad and some other poor settlements, roads and …
the Municipal Corporation of Dehi ( mcd ) has finally found a productive way of getting rid of the city's garbage. In a month's time, the first private-run compost plant is likely to begin operations. The plant, which has a capacity of converting 500 metric tonnes of garbage into manure …
Two separate public interest litigation cases were filed in the Karnataka High Court against Bangalore City Corporation (BCC). The petitions were regarding the responsibility of the BCC in clearing garbage and maintaining cleanliness in the city. Advocate S Reddy, in her petition, stated that drain water often overflowed on roads …
The SC has stayed the export of three lions and three elephants by the zoo in Mumbai to the Yokohama zoo in Japan. The orders were given in response to a special leave petition (SLP) filed by Ahimsa, a non-governmental organisation which fights against cruelty to animals. Ahimsa had earlier …
A writ petition has been filed in the Andhr* Pradesh High Court challenging the establishment of the garbage storage, treatment and disposal plant at Dindigal in Hyderabad. The plant is spread over 200 acres. The petition was filed by Purshottam Reddy of the 0smania Univcrsity@ Hyderabad. He argued that the …
Garbage dumps are the only source of livelihood for hundreds of poor children living in Phnom Penh. Scores of children can be seen atop heaps of foul-smelling wastes, competing with the municipal bulldozer to collect cans, glass, plastic and paper, which they sell for a living. Injuries and infections are …
