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 …
Law prohibits burning of garbage, but the practice continues unabated in the city. Residents are often appalled by the thick smoke enveloping the area. Both the MC and the A2Z company, responsible for the management of solid waste in the city, are unable to find a solution to the problem. …
The Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) of Sri Lanka has planned to start a new waste recycling process from next month. Municipal Commissioner Badrani Jayawardana said that the CMC waste management division will collect waste as sorted and unsorted from June 01. Solid waste management is a burning issue in the …
Is Varanasi heading towards epidemics? So far, overflowing sewage, heaps of dumped garbage, contaminated water supply through taps were hinting this situation. But now even the records of the health department have declared that as many as 46 localities in urban area and 64 villages from eight blocks of the …
The surroundings of the world's highest peak, Mt. Everest, which faced garbage management problem a few years ago, has now turned clean after efforts by the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC) in this regard. The committee has established an Office at Namche Bazaar and picked up the garbage thrown here …
The city's garbage generation has increased by an astonishing 400 tonnes per day. Chennai now produces 4,900 tonnes of garbage daily, up from 4,500 tonnes per day five months ago, making it the country's fourth largest producer of waste in the country. The city has overtaken Kolkata, notorious for its …
The encroachment, unauthorized construction and pollution of the ponds in Darbhanga pose a serious health hazard to its residents. About 50 ponds have been completely filled and houses, hotels, shops, commercial complex, private hospitals, coaching centres and offices have been built there. Recently, hundreds of local residents submitted a memorandum …
Members of a campaign dedicated to cleaning up Mt Everest said on Saturday that they have collected over 8 tonnes of waste from the mountain over a period of one year. Ang Dorje Sherpa, a campaigner with 'Saving Everest' said that the drive was launched in 2011 to clean up …
As if a pile of policies and laws on waste management were not enough, the government is drafting one more policy to deal with the garbage. “Though there are a good number of government bodies and laws — Solid Waste Management Board (1981), Solid Waste Management and Resource Mobilisation Centre …
The Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has decided to rope in IT firms and non governmental organisations (NGOs) to prevent dumping of garbage and other pollutants in the four majors nalas and other smaller nalas that are connected to Hussainsagar. HMDA metropolitan commissioner Neerabh Kumar Prasad said the IT companies …
The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to introduce a solar-fuelled vehicle to lift garbage from the doorstep. At present, waste is being manually lifted. Christened as 'soleckshaw', the non-polluting vehicle (paddy cab) has been designed and promoted by Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR). "The small vehicle will …
The Margao Municipal Council (MMC) kickstarted its door-to-door waste collection exercise on Wednesday on an experimental basis at Maddel, Fatorda. The MMC has engaged 30 additional daily-wage labourers for the exercise. These sanitary workers were tasked with going to each household at Maddel between 8am and 12 noon and collecting …
One of the water bodies in the city that is used as a transit point in the city’s water supply system, Porur Lake, is crying for attention and could do with a good dose of cleaning. Located beside the Mount-Poonamallee Road and with a flyover dividing it, the lake, spread …
Gujarat high court has issued a stern warning to authorities that officials would be personally held liable if unhygienic conditions at the Civil Hospital and across the city resulted in spread of malaria, dengue and falciparum next monsoon. The court has said that all officials concerned would be held guilty …
The Anuradhapura Urban Council has embarked on a Pivithuru Purawaraya (Clean City) city development programme, with the aim of creating a pleasant and environment friendly locality. The project, a brain child of Mayor H.P. Somadasa is sponsored and supervised by the Sakthi Volunteer Organization. Mayor Somadasa said that the main …
The Chelannur grama panchayat on Wednesday launched its model village scheme with a mission to declare all its wards free of garbage menace. Panchayat vice-president P. Gouri inaugurated the scheme, which would be implemented in wards 13 and 21 in the first phase. The setting up of vermi-compost units and …
The Union Urban Development Ministry has submitted before the Standing Committee on Urban Development that a waste-to-energy plant being set up by the Delhi Power Department through the East Delhi Waste Processing Co. Ltd (EDWPCL) at the Ghazipur landfill site is now in an advanced stage of completion and the …
800 kgs of Vermi-Compost (organic manure) prepared from municipal waste at Solid Waste Management (Vermi- Composting) Project at Thandapani, Sunderbani of district Rajouri was put on sale for the general public as District Development Commissioner, Saugat Biswas formally inaugurated the project today. The fully functional project is a first of …
The Customs Department has written to the Ludhiana Mayor and assured him that it will appropriately dispose of 825 tonnes of garbage recovered from 40 containers at Dhandari dry port. Department officials said the garbage would be dealt with strictly as per the norms. A total of 40 containers containing …
An undulation of hills rise along the eastern fringe of Delhi, towering above the surrounding flat land, and giving a cluster of apartment buildings in the distance a run for their height. They’re easily mistaken for an extension of the Aravalli range that skirts the city — until a putrefying …
At This Enclave Near Yelahanka, 950 Kg Of Garbage Generated Every Month Is Composted And Recycled Bangalore: The BBMP’s waste segregation initiatives may have floundered but one group of citizens is actively ploughing away at the effort and showing the way out for the city’s perennial landfill woes. Residents of …
