Order of the Supreme Court in the matter of Bhopal Municipal Corporation Vs Subhash C Pandey & Others dated 07/04/2025. The affidavit of compliance was filed by the Bhopal Municipal Corporation regarding implementation of the suggestions of the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI). The SC granted time to the …
No-entry The garbage problem in the City aggravated manifold on Thursday as the agitation at Mandur by local villagers against dumping of waste in the landfill entered third day. The village was on the boil on Thursday with villagers resorting to dharna on the road to prevent the entry of …
Environmental safeguards to be ensured: Manjalamkuzhi Ali The garbage issue in the capital city inched closer towards a temporary solution on Wednesday, with the government deciding to set up sanitary landfills in three abandoned quarries in the district. A consultation meeting convened by the government with scientists and technical experts …
The United Democratic Front (UDF) has decided to launch a massive awareness campaign across the State to promote the subsidy schemes formulated by the government for waste management at the local level. The UDF extended its support to the government decision to utilise abandoned quarries as landfills for municipal wastes …
The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday lashed out at the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) for the piling up of garbage in the City and directed the civic agency to file a status report on garbage segregation on November 6, 2012. Hearing two public interest litigations, by Kavitha Shankar, a …
The Chennai Corporation will request proposals from 18 of its shortlisted companies for projects under its solid waste management initiative this week. The initiative includes privatisation of conservancy operations along with remediation and scientific closure of the existing Perungudi and Kodungaiyur dumpyards. The Corporation Council has now approved the proposal …
Corporation blames contractor; seeks explanation on fire accident Residents of Konavaikalpalayam, Mahalingapuram, N.G.R. Nagar, Sakthi Eswaran Nagar and L.G. Nagar blocked the Chettipalayam Road on Monday, demanding closure of the Coimbatore Corporation’s dump yard in Vellalore. As the Coimbatore Corporation officials’ and police’s efforts to pacify the crowd failed and …
New Delhi: Soon, Tihar Jail will produce its own electricity. In a memorandum of understanding signed between the jail authorities and the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Barc), a Nisargruna biogas plant based on biodegradable waste will be set up in sub-jail number 2. This will convert biodegradable kitchen waste into …
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 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 …
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. …
A proposal to classify river courses in the State into various eco-zones for their conservation and management is getting ready. This forms part of the guidelines prepared by the Department of Environment and Climate Change for the conservation and protection of river systems in the State. The eco-zones, it is …
Starting October 1, Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagar Palike hopes, Bangalore residents will start segregating waste at their doorstep. The initiative comes after weeks of garbage rotting both on the city streets and landfills around it, and followed a nudge from the Karnataka High Court. The move to codify the policy on …
Disposal of refrigeration compressors containing chloro fluoro carbons (CFCs) and hydro chloro fluoro carbons (HCFCs) will now be brought on the radar of the Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board. Old and improperly discarded refrigeration and air-conditioning units are an environmental hazard due to the chemicals leading to depletion of the …
‘Hike fine on households that fail to segregate waste at source’ In a terse ruling on Monday, the High Court of Karnataka described the waste management policies of the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) as being equivalent to ‘garbage’. The Palike has now been directed to ensure power generation using …
After not-so-successful attempts at source segregation of waste initiatives in the city, the Coimbatore Corporation is gearing up for introducing a few measures aimed at restarting the process. And the civic body has every reason to do so because at stake is Rs. 96 crore – the money it has …
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The garbage issue does not show any sign of abating in the city as the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is still finding it hard to tackle the situation. With communities living near dump yards that are largely unscientific erupting into protests, the civic body is striving to find a …
