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 …
Waste disposal system went haywire after the formation of the BBMP Hardly 10 years ago, farmers bringing vegetables to the K R Market in the City would never return to their villages with an empty cart. newly added problem: Local bodies merged with the erstwhile corporation had their own garbage …
Don’t rubbish it In its struggle to clear the mess that Bangalore has become in the wake of the ongoing garbage crisis, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) seems to have become totally oblivious of other ways of getting rid of the rubbish. Not just that, the cash-strapped Palike appears …
Experts Demand Environment-Friendly Building Norms For New Urban Areas New Delhi: The new areas of Delhi, categorized as ‘urbanizable areas’ in Master Plan 2021, are mainly tracts of farmland dotted with farmhouses. But now that they have been opened up for urbanization, city-based urban planners and architects want the government …
In the light of careless handling of hazardous material by private companies at Cuncolim Industrial Estate, the government has been forced to step in and work out a solution. But shouldn’t stringent environmental safeguards be built into the industrial and investment policies to arrest fly-by-night operators, asks Guilherme Almeida MARGAO: …
The garbage crisis in the City showed no signs of waning on Wednesday, as Mayor D Venkatesh Murthy agreed to stop completely garbage dumping in the Mavallipura landfill. Following the blockade by residents of 18 villages surrounding the landfill, and yielding to pressure from the Yelahanka MLA S R Vishwanath, …
The failure to implement the 74th Amendment to the Constitution, enacted in 1992, is directly responsible for the garbage mess in the city. That’s the opinion of an expert on civic issues. The 74th Amendment sought to strengthen the urban local bodies. But, “the centralisation of powers in the state …
Bangalore, the nation’s information technology capital, has entered the second harrowing week of being in threat of drowning in its own garbage because the landfills serving it cannot be used. In the process, the city’s municipal commissioner is being transferred. The city’s experience offers a lesson to all major urban …
Warning of serious action if the administration remained lackadaisical in resolving the city’s garbage disposal problem, the Karnataka High Court on Monday directed the State government and the Bruhat Bangalore Mahangara Palike (BBMP) to file a report in three days on the situation. The court, in its order, also said …
The garbage crisis, which the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) claimed to have mitigated in the last 24 hours, is likely to worsen with residents of Mandur deciding on a blockade on Monday. Agitated by the amount of garbage being dumped at the landfill off Bangalore-Hoskote Road near Begur Cross, …
The City’s failure to adhere to the norm on garbage segregation at source may soon force the State government and BBMP to make it mandatory. The Palike is keen on such a step and is in the process of verifying whether the Supreme Court’s recent remark on the subject is …
Unattended rubbish heaps invite insects, rodents and stray animals. They do not, however, have any direct implication on people’s health, experts say. But if flies from garbage dumps bite someone, there are chances of him/her developing ‘insect bite allergy’, Dr Maya Philip, dermatologist, Mallya Hospital, said. There is no known …
Using the garbage of Dhaka city, the government for the first time is going to generate 50 megawatt of electricity to add to the national grid. KM Mozammel Hoq, additional secretary of the local government division of LGRD and Cooperatives ministry, said they had sought opinions of different ministries concerned …
It was called Treasure Island in honour of Robert Louis Stevenson's pirate classic, but the artificial island off San Francisco bay has nothing but trouble buried in its soil: radioactive contamination left by the US navy. Internal documents and emails from the navy and public health officials reveal that the …
Air Products will build and operate a 50MW advanced gasification plant making it the most powerful energy-from-waste facility of its type in the world, the company claims. The Tees Valley plant will be located at the New Energy & Technology Business Park near Billingham and will divert up to 350,000 …
A reduction in household waste and an increase in recycling in has led to a decline in waste to landfill England of 11%. Provisional results from Defra, released today comparing figures between the financial year 2010/11 and the calendar year January to December 2011, in order to negate seasonal fluctuations, …
Getting food from the farm to our fork eats up 10 percent of the total U.S. energy budget, uses 50 percent of U.S. land, and swallows 80 percent of all freshwater consumed in the United States. Yet, 40 percent of food in the United States today goes uneaten. This not …
At 10 in the morning, Roshan Kumar is negotiating one of the busiest hours of his daily work on platform No.16 at New Delhi railway station. The New Delhi-Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express has just chugged in and Roshan’s job is to ensure that sufficient number of waste pickers enter the train …
The Bombay high court has directed the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) to implement the recommendations made by the National Environment Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) regarding the lack of management of the dumping ground at Turbhe, leading to massive inconvenience to the public residing around it. A division bench of …
Landfills leachates are known to contain recalcitrant and/or non-biodegradable organic substances and biological processes are not efficient in these cases. A promising alternative to complete oxidation of biorecalcitrant leachate is the use of ultrasonic process as pre-treatment to convert initially biorecalcitrant compounds to more readily biodegradable intermediates. The objectives of …
The panel, which held a detailed three-hour discussion on the issue here on Wednesday, recommended a law modelled after a Karnataka legislation that permits sale and purchase of agriculture land only for cultivation. The Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee’s party-government coordination committee has put forward a three-point recommendation for the consideration …
