Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
The Compendium of Environment Statistics released by Central Statistical Organisation. This issue has been combined for the years 2008/2009 issue and is 10th in the series with data on biodiversity, atmosphere, land, water & human settlements. Report: State of environment report India 2009 www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/283130 Report: Comprehensive environmental assessment of industrial …
Despite the overwhelming advantages of mechanic villages, their heavy metal pollution of soil due to poor waste management is causing serious ecological and public health concerns. Analytical results show that heavy metal concentrations (mgkg-1) above background levels in the upper 100 cm soil profiles of the Okigwe, the Orji and …
The National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), appointed by the state in 2009 to study and suggest measures for management of e-waste in Mumbai, will submit its report by April 2011. A 2007 report by Maharashtra Pollution Control Board on e-waste in Mumbai and Pune region states that as per …
The disposal of waste presents an increasing challenge to the administrative bodies of megacities. The Municipal Corporation of the Indian city Pune has introduced source separation systems and onsite organic waste composting. The citizens concerned are looking for practical ways to treat their organic wastes and they have found city …
Software-to-soap maker Wipro Ltd plans to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint by half in the next five years. The Bangalore-based company with significant interests in IT, would reduce GHG intensity to 2.5 tonnes per employee by 2015, according to the company
ITANAGAR, Mar 31: In response to the clarion call of Governor Gen (Retd) J J Singh for a Clean, Green and Plastic Free Arunachal, NABARD has sanctioned a pilot project on Solid Waste Management under its Rural Innovation Fund to be implemented in the state capital. The project is sanctioned …
Municipal authorities in Mumbai could take a cue from Navi Mumbai on managing building debris dumped in landfills. Maharashtra’s City and Industrial Development Corporation (cidco) and a non-profit, Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action (YUVA), have jointly set up a plant in Navi Mumbai that converts debris into relatively cheap …
The Central Government considers it necessary in the public interest and to enable the recovery and/or reuse of useful material from Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), thereby reducing the hazardous wastes destined for disposal and to ensure the environmentally sound management of all types of waste electrical and electronic …
K.Lakshmi Project report to be prepared within three months Set to change: Burning of garbage at Kilburn Nagar dumping yard is expected to reduce with the Madhavaram Municipality planning solid waste management measures. CHENNAI: The Madhavaram Municipality has approached the Centre for Environmental Studies, Anna University, to prepare a detailed …
PRASHANT PANDEY NEW DELHI The tourism ministry has made it clear to the states that their tourism projects would be taken up on priority basis if they came up with concrete plans for solid waste management and providing wayside amenities on the state and the national highways along the route …
Every movement needs a poster boy. India's quest for securing its water needs could use Rajiv Mittal. At 49, the Managing Director of VA Tech Wabag, is one of the younger water entrepreneurs who are changing the way we treat the liquid that sustains our life. Mittal was sent to …
CHANDIGARH: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda announced on Friday that his regime would launch a State-wide urban infrastructure development programme called Rajiv Gandhi Urban Development Mission, Haryana. Talking to media persons shortly after presiding over a meeting of the scrutiny committee of the Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee here, Mr. …
Plan to carry out a door-to-door awareness drive in Mettupalayam To rid of waste:Chairperson of Mettupalayam Municipality Satyavati Ganesh (second right) hands over a garbage collection bag to a resident COIMBATORE: Wealth out of Waste, a project under which paper waste and plastic bags are bought from houses and shops, …
KARACHI: The City District Government Karachi (CDGK) is formulating a new policy for solid waste management and Executive District Officer (EDO) Masood Alam has asked deputy town health officers of the city to furnish suggestions for this purpose. The meeting to discuss the new policy was held on Monday, following …
The population of India would double over the next 20 years; almost all its cities would experience a twofold expansion during this period. No part of the world has ever seen such staggering urban growth. Cities like Paris stabilized their population sizes at about two million. Although Greater Paris has …
NEW DELHI: To improve sanitation waste management in unauthorised colonies, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi has started an auto-tipper service for solid waste management in the unauthorised colonies of Nangloi and Baprolla in West Delhi. MCD House leader Subhash Arya and Municipal Commissioner K. S. Mehra also inspected these colonies. …
