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 recent diktat of the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike asking apartments, hotels and marriage halls (bulk generators) to segregate their waste and pay for the disposal appears to contravene the Karnataka Municipal Corporation Act, 1976. Rule 103B of KMC Act states: “The corporation may, in addition to property tax levied …
Peeved over the inordinate delay being caused in settling the dispute over land to be provided for a garbage dumping site, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday asked the Chief Administrator, Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA), to remain present in the court on the next date of hearing. …
A combination of climate change and booming tourism could cause famous mountain spots in Southwest China's Yunnan province to lose their snow, authorities and experts have warned. Rising temperatures in recent years have steadily pushed the snow line on Meili Snow Mountain in the Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture to higher …
A visit to the Siachen Glacier, the world’s longest at 76.4 km and highest at nearly 22,000 feet, recently provided a group of adventurers and environmentalists a rare glimpse of the fauna around the world’s highest battle zone. It also offered them an opportunity to see first hand how some …
Protesters’ forum at Vadavathur to continue agitations In the midst of yet another controversy over the dumping yard at Vadavathur, the authorities of the Kottayam municipality have sought to clarify that no decision has been made to adopt the landfill method for waste disposal. Instead, the method of capping would …
Urban India sitting on a ticking garbage bomb For a few weeks in August, garden city Bangalore turned into a garbage city. This was after villagers living near the landfills in Mandur and Doddaballapur, where the city's garbage was being dumped, refused to let the trucks carrying waste unload, demanding …
The powerful garbage contractors in the City are out to sabotage the BBMP’s reforms for garbage disposal, Palike officials say. Officials say the contractors, who had so far had a stranglehold over the lucrative business of garbage disposal, are worried over the growing awareness among citizens about the segregation-at-source and …
The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) Chairman Vaman Acharya on Wednesday said the BBMP lacks clarity on disposing the dry waste it collects. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a function at the KSPCB office, Acharya, however, hailed the Palike for undertaking the Herculean task of educating the …
The second day of the new system of garbage disposal in the City saw the segregation at source drive go for a toss in many areas. Garbage lies uncleared on Katriguppe main road in Bangalore on Tuesday. Garbage piled up in bulk in many places including some posh areas such …
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara on Tuesday claimed that its garbage segregation strategy has met with ‘partial success’ and that there was a huge demand for wet waste. As reports of segregation failing in many parts of the City appeared in the media the Palike put up a brave front and …
MARGAO: Salcete’s coastal panchayats on Tuesday launched plastic collection drives in their respective jurisdiction on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti. At Varca, Sarpanch Luiza Rodrigues joined the villagers and school students in the drive to clean up the road sides of the plastic menace. Luiza said the objective behind the …
The National Green Tribunal’s principal bench has restrained a number of State agencies from dumping garbage in the Pallavaram ‘periya eri’. “The Tribunal is able to see a prima facie case made out for granting an ex-parte ad interim injunction in view of the warranting fact and circumstances. Accordingly, an …
Residents oppose move, set to block roads from Oct 2 As Bangaloreans gear up to segregate their garbage at source, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is considering composting wet waste in Mandur, the village used tili recently as a landfill for the City’s unsegregated garbage. But the BBMP is …
It took more than a decade and crores of rupees (approximately Rs 350 crore a year) for the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to create the highly toxic garbage hillocks at Mavallipura and Mandur. Now the civic agency will spend another decade and crores of rupees to undo the damage. …
Apartments with more than 10 units come under the category The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has classified apartments with more than 10 units as bulk generators for garbage collection purposes. Such apartments will have to make their own arrangement for garbage disposal. However, garbage will be collected from apartments …
Land near slaughter house used as unauthorised dumping yard Residential areas south of Government Engineering College here has become uninhabitable in the recent past as the rubbish, particularly the plastic waste, being burnt in the unofficial garbage dumping yard of the Corporation near Melapalayam modern slaughter house generates huge volume …
Apartment owners can now relax a bit, with the Palike extending the deadline for them to make their own arrangements for garbage disposal. knowhow: Ramakanth, an expert in solid waste management, demonstrates segregation of garbage at a workshop in the City on Thursday. DH PhotoThe Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) …
Next time you spot a pile of garbage, click a picture from your Global Positioning System (GPS)-enabled smartphone and upload it on the BBMP website, triggering an instant alert message to the engineer concerned and remedial action. The Off-Site Real-Time (OSRT) system, launched by the Palike here on Tuesday, makes …
‘Palike engineers and corporators have ignored our efforts’ Members of various residents’ welfare associations (RWAs) dubbed the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike’s garbage segregation method as top-down approach. Speaking at a consultation programme ‘People’s Participation in Urban Governance’ organised by CIVIC, an NGO, in the City recently, they said the Palike …
MARGAO: In an interesting development, the Margao Municipal Council has rejected the request of the Konkan Railway Corporation to exempt the railways from the payment of garbage collection fees. In fact, MMC Chief Officer S R Kotkwale told the KRC officials that the request for exemption cannot be considered and …
