Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Surat: Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) chairman Dr KU Mistry said more development means more responsibilities for the industries, adding that growth at the cost of environment can’t take place. He said pollution level has to be monitored and accountability of the industries fixed. “We are not against industries, but …
MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday directed electroplating units in Mumbai to install effluent treatment plants (ETPs) and scrubbers while hearing a petition stating that such effluents are polluting the city's water and air. A division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Roshan Dalvi was hearing a …
The government will continue its efforts to save the rivers around Dhaka from encroachment and pollution, said Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan yesterday. "A taskforce has been formed to protect the rivers. We have started setting up boundary pillars along the rivers around the capital," he said while addressing the launching …
The findings of Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board, soon to be tabled before the state Assembly, show the presence of several active pharmaceutical ingredients in the effluent released by bulk drug units at Patancheru. APPCB has entrusted NEERI, Nagpur, to collect and analysis samples from the Central Effluent Treating Plant …
Textile industry is one of the highly polluting industries in the state having potential for creating pollution of water and air. The major operations performed in a typical textile processing industry are desizing, scouring, mercerizing, bleaching, neutralizing, dyeing, printing and finishing. The discharge of polluted effluents and use of various …
Farmers and environmentalists have expressed anguish over the recent sanctioning of Rs. 127.4 crore by the State Government towards disbursal of interest-free loan to 15 Common Effluent Treatment Plants here, stating it as a violation of Supreme Court ruling of “polluters -pay”. “Why should public money be allocated for the …
Union Environment Ministry has asked the state government to take strict action against those industrial units that are polluting river Aami in Gorakhpur making groundwater in adjoining areas unfit for drinking purposes. In her letter to Chief Minister Mayawati, the Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Environment and Forest Jayanti …
Chennai The Tamil Nadu government announced on Friday a R127.40-crore interest-free loan to 15 common effluent treatment plants (CETPs) situated at Tirupur to enable 700-odd dyeing units to attain zero liquid discharge (ZLD). The dyeing units were forced to shut down by the Madras High Court in January owing to …
TNPCB snaps power supply as they fail to comply with zero discharge norms Ever since the implementation of zero discharge norms failed leading to closure over the past month, dying unit owners in the district have put all their efforts at stake to tide over the crisis. Now, they are …
Hawkins Cookers Ltd has informed the Bombay Stock Exchange that it has got a stay from the Punjab and Haryana High Court against an order issued by the Punjab Pollution Control Board, which instructed it to cease discharging trade effluents from its Hoshiarpur unit. The board has alleged that the …
The state pollution control agency has been directed by the Bombay High Court to submit a report on the quality of water in the state’s rivers after a petition drew the court’s attention to reports that nearly a fifth of the country’s most polluted rivers are in Maharashtra. The petition …
Raw industrial waste killing Yamuna, corroding sewer lines Untreated effluents from industries making their way into the sewers and eventually reaching the Yamuna are not only killing the river but are also said to be behind the rapid corrosion of the city's sewer lines. The Delhi Jal Board, which is …
Collector orders official to take action Farmers participating in the monthly agriculturists' grievances redressal day meeting here on Friday complained of indiscriminate mining of sand in the Palar and Ponnai rivers, which resulted in the depletion of the ground water resources in the rivers. D. Gopalakrishnan, a farmer of Sathambakkam …
Calcutta, Nov. 17: The Centre has extended till next March a little-known moratorium on setting up “potentially polluting” units in Haldia and Asansol, making it all the more difficult to attract investments in sectors closely identified with the two industrial towns. The sectors that fall under the ban include oil …
The Manickapurampudur Common Effluent Treatment (CETP) has forwarded a requisition to the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) to allow the plant to operate and give sufficient time to erect reverse osmosis (RO) system to ensure zero liquid discharge in the dyeing effluent treatment process. Closure order The CETP's director …
GANDHINAGAR: Gujarat government is seriously considering a proposal to make water meters compulsory in homes within the state's urban local bodies' limits (ULBs). A high-level document, still at the draft stage, has said, "In urban areas water for domestic purposes should be supplied through meter system." Part of the proposed …
A number of edible oil refineries have been established in the vicinity of Kakinada port during the past decade, generating employment in the port town and stimulating economic growth, but there are complaints from the public that the managements of the private refineries are not taking steps to mitigate or …
Tirupur, the textile knitwear hub of India discharges about 100 MLD of dyestuff effluents with high salt content and multi colored effluents from as early as 1990s. It flanks and pollutes the Noyyal river course rendering it as a virtual effluent course as rainfall is hardly for 15 days only …
Bleaching unit owners here have come up with a demand that the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board should not insist upon them to implement the zero liquid discharge (ZLD) norms as no salts or hazardous chemicals were used in the bleaching process. Classification “Classification of bleaching units under ‘orange category' …
The department of Environment on Sunday realized Tk 10.80 lakh as fine from a Taiwanese textile factory in Mauna area under Sripur Upazila of Gazipur district on charge of polluting environment. A mobile court of the department, led by its director (Enforcement) Muhammad Munir Chowdhury, penalised How Are You Textile …
