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. …
While permitting Sterlite Industries at Tuticorin to continue operations of its copper plant, the Supreme Court has directed the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) to issue notice to the industry for carrying out remedial measures and removing deficiencies within such time “it thinks reasonable and proper.” A Bench of …
Sterlite Industries expressed confidence that it will overcome the deficiencies listed out in the Supreme Court judgment. Mr P. Ramnath, Chief Executive Officer, Sterlite Copper, said the company has proactively started implementing some of the recommendations in the Supreme Court ruling. “The company has allocated additional funds to further fulfil …
When two Nagpur-based researchers made a casual visit to a paper recycle mill in 2009, never did they imagine that the visit will turn into a unique innovation and a full-fledged project. The researchers and their team are currently working on the design and development of the lightweight brick that …
Bangladesh Bank (BB) governor Dr Atiur Rahman has said the central bank has taken steps to encourage green banking in Bangladesh through the issuance of guidelines on green banking and Environmental Risk Management (ERM). "The central bank introduced Tk 2.0 billion refinance line for financing solar energy, biogas and effluent …
Raids conducted by the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) on 68 electroplating industries in Jalandhar and Ludhiana have found 42 of them flouting norms that make it mandatory for industries to ensure waste is treated at the Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) in Ludhiana. PPCB Chairman K S Pannu said …
The MoEF has been implementing a centrally sponsored scheme for Effluent Treatment Plants (CETPs) since 1991. In the light of the operational deficiencies in the earlier scheme, the development of pollution control technologies and the recommendations of SPCBs related thereto, a need was felt to revise the earlier guidelines for …
The MoEF has been implementing a centrally sponsored scheme for Effluent Treatment Plants (CETPs) since 1991. In the light of the operational deficiencies in the earlier scheme, the development of pollution control technologies and the recommendations of SPCBs related thereto, a need was felt to revise the earlier guidelines for …
The Union Textiles Ministry has constituted a high-level committee to study the functioning of Arulpuram Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) and to advise the government on technical solutions for ensuring zero liquid discharge in the dyeing process, among other issues. According to a communiqué received at Tirupur Exporters Association here …
It will give advice on ensuring zero liquid discharge in dyeing process The Union Textiles Ministry has constituted a high-level committee to study the functioning of Arulpuram Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) and to advise the government on technical solutions for ensuring zero liquid discharge in the dyeing process, among …
The first CETP (Common Effluent Treatment Plant) for heterogeneous chemical industries wastewater has been established by Jeedimetla Effluent Treatment Ltd (JETL) and is in operation since 1989 in Jeedimetla Industrial Estate (JIE), Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.
Farmers unhappy with nomenclature of the panel members The latest decision of the high-level committee constituted under Union Textiles Secretary to evolve methods to put an end to the losses being suffered by Tirupur entrepreneurs due to closure of dyeing units as well as to revive the closed units, has …
Environment officials penalised yesterday a textile washing factory in the city's Rupnagar for polluting a water body and three real estate developers for creating noise pollution at their respective construction sites in Banani. Jeans Culture Ltd, the washing factory, was fined Tk 7.20 lakh, as it was operating keeping the …
A high-level committee under the textiles ministry is meeting on August 24 to take stock of the prevailing situation in Tirupur, Tamil Nadu. Over 700 textile units engaged mainly in dyeing and bleaching business have been shut since January 2010 on a Madras High Court order. The court ordered the …
The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined a textile mill Tk 71.50 lakh at Hotapara in Gazipur for polluting the Turag river and an adjacent water body with untreated liquid waste. A DoE team led by Munir Chowdhury, director of monitoring and enforcement, penalised Masuma Khatun Textile Mills Ltd for …
The Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) has ordered the closure of a pharmaceutical factory near Banur for violation of pollution control norms. According to board officials, M/s Surya Pharmaceutical Ltd, which was engaged in manufacturing bulk drugs, had been directed by the board to close down its operations under Section …
The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) will give green signal to adoption of any specific technology for ensuring zero liquid discharge (ZLD) in dyeing effluent treatment process only after evaluating merits and demerits of ZLD procedures developed by various firms, according to TNPCB chairman C.V.Sankar. “The final nod will …
Biswas Synthetic, a component of the Biswas Group, was fined Tk 1.44 crore on Monday by the Department of Environment for polluting the water-bodies and cultivable land of Pakuriya Beel in Dhamrai-Ashulia near the capital. A DoE team, led by its director Muhammad Munir Chowdhury, conducted a raid on the …
A Department of Environment team on Sunday realised Tk 71.36 lakh in fine from two dyeing factories, one in the capital and the other in an area adjacent to it, for not using any effluent treatment plant and thus polluting the River Turag. DoE director (monitoring and enforcement) Munir Chowdhury, …
Mangalore: The Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP), an undertaking of the Fishmeal and Oil Manufactures Association (FOMA) was inaugurated by Karnataka State Pollution Control Board Chairman A S Sadashiviah at Kotepura in Ullal on Saturday. Speaking on the occasion, he commended the work of Fishmeal and Oil Manufacturers Association and …
Question asked by Nnarahari Mahato and Nripendra Nath Roy on Installation of pollution control equipment by sugar mills and industry. (Question asked in the Monsoon session of LS 2011)
