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. …
NEW DELHI: The capital produces about 5,000 metric tonnes (MT) of hazardous waste annually but it still doesn't have any facility for proper storage and disposal of such wastes. The government is in the process of acquiring land for this purpose at Kanjhawla. However, it will take a couple of …
A number of studies have already been carried out for the metal analysis of paper mill effluents which are generally using wood and non-wood (bamboo, baggase etc.) as fibrous raw material for paper manufacturing process. This study deals with a paper mill which is using cotton comber and cotton liner …
The Sindh industries and commerce department of the Sindh government is using pressure tactics to get approved the scheme of establishing combined effluent treatment plant at Kotri, Hyderabad, bypassing all the relevant rules and procedures, it is learnt. According to sources, the industries and commerce department had submitted PC-I of …
THE Gujarat chemical industry, which is found to be generating the highest quantity of hazardous waste, has now cut down on its production. The move followed Gujarat Pollution Control Board
V Narayana Murthi | ENS They were accused of dumping untreated effluents in Palar river THE tanneries in Ambur and Vaniyambadi regions have been given a deadline up to this month end to complete the installation of the reverse osmosis system for treating effluents through individual and common treatment plants. …
ERODE: The Perundurai SIPCOT Textile Processors Association has urged the State Government to take immediate steps for the implementation of the marine discharge project, which will enable the textile processors in Kongu region to transport and discharge the treated effluents in the sea safely. The knitwear industry in Tirupur is …
L.N. Revathy Tirupur seems to be hogging the limelight this past week for different reasons. The Union Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, has announced a one-time grant of Rs 200 crore for Tirupur towards installation of the Common Effluent Treatment Plants (CETPs) with zero liquid discharge system. Today, the exporters …
ERODE: With the Central government proposing to allocate Rs. 200 crore as grant for the establishment of common effluent treatment plant (CETP) in Tirupur, the industrial associations in Erode, which is home to a large number of textile processing units, have started raising voices seeking funds for a similar project …
A bill to make special provision for securing the orderly establishment of industrial areas, industrial estates and flatted factories complexes in the National Capital Territory of Delhi, and to assist generally in the organisation, including operation and maintenance thereof, and for that purpose to reconstitute and empower Delhi State Industrial …
Environment clearance for establishment of Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) of 17 MLD capacity at Survey No.141 (Part), Mundra, Kutch by M/s MPSEZ Utilities Pvt Ltd (20/02/2010).
Dyers have spent about Rs. 800 crore to establish effluent treatment plants The increase to be effective from February 1 Tirupur: The Dyers Association of Tirupur (DAT) has decided to increase the dyeing charges following the rise in operational costs due to implementation of zero liquid discharge at the Common …
Solan: With the Ministry of Commerce according its principle approval to Rs 60 crore Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) for the industrial hub of Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh (BBN) at a meeting in Delhi today, the pollution woes of the area would be eased. Officials of the BBN Industrial Development Authority, who held …
Rise in cost of dyeing along with local dyeing units unable to accept all orders are cited as some of the reasons for the shift MAJORITY of the garment manufacturers here have started approaching the dyeing units in Perundurai and Erode for colouring and washing, as the local dyeing units …
In the first week of January, the Maharashtra state pollution control board ordered the shutdown of 27 chemicals factories in Khed taluka of Ratnagiri district. The factories from the Lote-Parshuram industrial area were found emptying untreated effluents into a rivulet that contaminated the reservoir downstream. The Boraj dam reservoir is …
On january 13, the Union environment ministry imposed restrictions on new industries in critically polluted areas. The ministry had assessed 88 industrial areas across the country and identified 43 as critically polluted. Projects to set up new industries or to expand the existing ones in these areas have been put …
Legislators in Vidhan Sabha voiced concern over alarming increase in air and water pollution and demanded stringent action against those who were violating the laid norms.
Raises employment generation, allocation of natural gas issues. The Tamil Nadu Government has made a strong pitch for Central aid to tackle the effluent problem faced by the dyeing units in Tirupur, which is a major hub for knitwear production, according to Union Minister for Textiles, Mr Dayanidhi Maran. He …
Depleting groundwater levels have attained severe proportions in the city, and the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) is thinking green with a new plan up its sleeve. Last season
Two CETPs yet to get environment clearance Concern over monitoring procedures Tirupur: Anxieties raised by farmers and civic body representatives over the credibility of functioning of zero liquid discharge mechanism dominated the public hearing conducted by Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board on Thursday to obtain views on the two Common …
