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 …
KOCHI: In the wake of the Kerala High Court order on waste dumping, the Kochi Corporation is planning to put a blanket ban on plastic carry bags. While initiating steps to implement the directions as per the court order, the Kochi Corporation will also consider the viability of a total …
Residents of Perungudi, Madhavaram and Tiruvottiyur have voiced concern over the use of dumpyards in their localities to dispose of solid waste from many of the new areas of Chennai Corporation too. In Perungudi, residents say that the Corporation must stop dumping mixed garbage and instead start source segregation on …
Agartala: Garbage collections in Agartala Municipal Council (AMC) area remained halted for the eighth consecutive day on Tuesday following blockade by the residents around the existing dumping ground of the city. According to a report, the stalemate continued even after several rounds of meeting with the residents of the area, …
The Thrissur Corporation council decides to impose fine on those who dump garbage in plastic bags The Thrissur Corporation will set up flying squads to keep vigil against dumping of garbage in plastic bags on roadsides and at public places. Addressing the Corporation council meeting on Tuesday, Mayor I.P. Paul …
“We have written to the urban development and municipal affairs departments to amend the rules so that there is a mandatory provision for green buildings,” said R.P.S. Kahlon, the principal secretary to the environment department. He was speaking on the sidelines of a discussion on climate friendly industrial development organised …
Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB) is all set to tighten the noose on vehicle workshops and servicing centres in Dhanbad district that generate a large amount of hazardous waste in the form of used fuel and lubricants and have no mechanism in place for their proper disposal. The board …
Kerala, which has taken pride in implementing several projects with government money, has finally decided to seek private investment to provide better sanitation facilities. A highlight of the one-year action plan of the Congress government is the formation of a toilet company with private participation. Modelled after the Cochin International …
Private firm to implement solid waste management project To deal with problems cropping up from the Ramaiyanpatti garbage dumping yard on the outskirts of the town, the Corporation has proposed to execute a solid waste management programme by involving a private agency, which will convert the degradable refuse into bio …
Thai authorities are boosting efforts to collect drain-clogging garbage in Bangkok as Thailand's slow-rolling floodwaters send debris from upstream into the capital, threatening two more massive industrial parks Monday after swamping seven others. Flooded roads are preventing garbage collectors getting to many areas—raising fears over the risk of disease and …
A meeting convened by District Collector Anand Singh here on Sunday to find a solution to garbage disposal problems of Thalassery municipality was inconclusive as representatives of local action committees abstained from the meeting. The meeting was called in the wake of agitation by people of Pettippalam in the New …
NEW DELHI: A thick haze over Delhi on Friday has set the alarm bells ringing over growing air pollution in the city. While pollution normally rises during winter, Friday's level at places was more than 10 times the prescribed limits. For instance, levels of oxides of nitrogen (NOx), the prescribed …
Thrikkakara municipality is far from finding a permanent solution to garbage management as it continues with its archaic and unscientific method of dumping waste in pits dug up in an open space and spreading earth over it. A naturally-formed trench sandwiched between the offices of the municipality and the district …
Expansion of area, fewer conservancy workers, increase in quantity of garbage and above all, high expectation from the city's residents – these are a few challenges that stare in the face of the Coimbatore Corporation. At least, as far as solid waste management is concerned. The Corporation's area has gone …
GUWAHATI: The violation of garbage dumping norms by hotels, restaurants and other business establishments in Guwahati has irked the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC). GMC has issued an order to all hotels, restaurants and business establishments in the city that they should dump their garbage during 11 pm to 5 am …
Tension prevailed at Kureepuzha in the city on Sunday over the issue of permitting eight trucks loaded with garbage to enter the garbage dumping yard there and unload. City Corporation authorities said that residents of the area under the banner of Human Rights and Environment Protection Council had been blocking …
Lacking a solid waste management policy (SWMP) for the metropolis is the mother of all the evils that have ruined city's environment. Even today, clean air and clean potable water, a basic necessity for normal growth of around three percent of total population, children up to age 5, is not …
JAIPUR: The tall promises of sanitation campaign of the JMC fell flat a day after Diwali when the fire cracker waste remained littered on the city roads and in the colonies. As large number of sanitation workers are required to ensure better sanitation conditions in the city. The Jaipur Municipal …
The Festival of Lights is over, but it will take a few days for civic workers in the City to clear the heaps of garbage left behind on the streets by those bursting crackers. The City, that usually generates 4,800 tonnes of garbage everyday, is supposed to have produced about …
KOCHI: If you are a ‘nasty Kochiite’ who dumps household garbage on the roadside under the cover of night, do not be surprised if you are caught red-handed tonight. Starting Thursday, three special squads of health officials will patrol the streets of Kochi every night to nab those who dump …
The city Corporation on Monday conducted a workshop for councillors to create awareness on the decentralised source-level waste treatment project. Inaugurating the workshop, Mayor K. Chandrika said all councillors should come together to successfully implement the scheme which had been initiated to reduce the quantity of garbage transported to the …
