Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect and poor maintenance appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 25.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect …
Rs. 100-crore project to be completed by mid-2014; will produce power from solid waste generated in Tambaram and Pallavaram Preliminary civil works for a waste-to-energy power plant began at Venkatamangalam village on Monday. The non-incineration facility will produce power from solid waste generated in Tambaram and Pallavaram municipalities. A bhoomi …
PANJIM: The Goa Government has tabled the Goa Cess on Products and Substances Causing Pollution (Green Cess) Bill, 2013 to levy cess till 2 per cent of the sale value on products and substances causing pollution. The bill defines these products as: “those which upon their handling, consumption, utilization, combustion, …
Environment activist SubhasDatta has moved the National Green Tribunal on pollution at Puri, eastern India's biggest pilgrimage and tourist site. The town with a population of about 2 lakh and rudimentary civic and other support infrastructure, caters to more than 1.5 million tourists. In the petition made on April 5, …
Three days after the high-court appointed pollution control board (PCB) team filed a report citing serious omissions on the part of city corporation in terms of waste management at Vilappilsala factory, the civic body has decided to file a counter petition pointing out lapses made by the PCB. In the …
Progress on solid waste management in Sri Lanka is not satisfactory and measures are needed for an effective management of solid waste, the Chairman of the Central Environmental Authority (CEA) Wimal Rubasinghe says. The Chairman noted that except for a few, most local government bodies bury the locale's solid waste …
It was announced in Corporation Budget The Coimbatore Corporation Council on Monday accorded approval for the waste-to-energy project. At the urgent meeting, the Council decided to implement the project, which will use 500 metric tonnes waste a day to generate power. The Council approving of the project comes days after …
Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki today dedicated to the people an ambitious project for solid waste management under the department of Urban Development (UD) at Chimpu, which he had initiated as the Urban Development Minister during 2006. “Personally, this is a dream come true for me. Now the …
Expert Committee Never Suggested Gasification Plant For Municipal Waste Treatment Thiruvananthapuram: The government awarded the contract to set up modular wastetreatment plant at Chalai at a cost of Rs 60 crores to Loro Enviropower by overruling the recommendations of the expert committee headed by RVG Menon Two weeks after TOI …
A Bill to prevent throwing or depositing non-biodegradable garbage in public drains, roads and places open to public view so as to protect the environment from being polluted by such garbage and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Corporation Commissioner V.P.Thandapani has appealed to traders and other commercial establishments in the city to extend their full cooperation to the civic body in its efforts to improve solid waste management in the city. The Corporation has planned to evolve a system of collecting garbage from commercial establishments to a …
PANJIM: Though tons of newspaper reams have been dedicated to the issue, agitated gram sabha discussions have rocked villages and various initiatives have been thrashed by the government, the satisfactory garbage management has eluded Goa over the past few decades with the latest initiative too having bleak prospects, in terms …
Arail (Allahabad): There is a Brazillian who is part of the Save Ganga campaign. Meet Swami Premji from Sau Paulo, disciple of a swami in Rishikesh, in Kumbh City to set an example and inspire Indians to save the holy river. He has come prepared along with 200 disciples. “We …
The Himachal Pradesh High Court (HC) has banned the packing of food items in non-biodegradable material from April 1. The HC passed the order on a public interest litigation. Passing the directions, the HC observed, “A balance has to be struck between the economy, the need to provide essential items …
The Himachal Pradesh High Court has directed the state government to ban sale of ‘junk food’ in non bio-degradable packs from April 1 but exempted essential items like edible oil and milk from the ban. A Division Bench of Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjay Karool directed that the list of …
With some exhibitors at the ongoing India International Trade Fair at Pragati Maidan openly flouting the rules by giving away goods in plastic bags to customers, the Delhi Pollution Control Committee and the State Environment Ministry have decided to punish the defaulters. Twelve officials of the DPCC and six of …
The ministry of urban development has released data that states that Indians generate 115,000 million tons of municipal solid waste every day. Unfortunately, metro cities including Bengaluru, Thiruvananthapuram, Mumbai, Delhi and Pune are no longer able to cope with these mountains of trash. Mumbai alone is generates over 5,500 tons …
PANJIM: The State government has drafted a legislation under which penalty would be imposed on those who litter open areas, especially with bio-degradable waste. The legislation would be discussed at a meeting scheduled to decide various means of garbage collection in panchayat areas, on Tuesday. Environment Minister Alina Saldanha told …
Equipment to measure density of plastics yet to be procured Salem City Municipal Corporation’s ban on sale and use of plastics below 40 microns could not be implemented from November 1 as planned, since the digital micrometers to measure the density of plastics have not been procured. With plastic carry …
SHILLONG: In a bid to avoid the direct discharge sewerage and solid waste into the river, the Government is likely to initiate the solid waste management (SWM) project by March next year. A presentation on the entire project was presented by Mott Macdonald, a noted consultancy firm, during a meeting …
The Sanitation Mission expects more local bodies in the district to come up with projects for decentralised waste treatment in the wake of enhanced subsidy component by the State government for compost units and biogas plants. The State government has hiked the subsidy component for various types of compost units …
