Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
MUMBAI: The HC has ordered the BMC to look at the alternate plan offered by Nepean Sea Road residents to save trees from being cut during the road widening. The order came after the residents filed a PIL on Friday. "We were in a dialogue with the BMC on our …
Tree cutting would mean business for the Delhi Government now. While giving its nod to the Northern Railway to cut 3,000 trees to facilitate the expansion of Anand Vihar Railway Station, the Environment Department of Delhi Government has directed the authorities to send the logs to the crematorium of the …
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has directed the BMC and its Tree Authority to state how many trees have been cut and how many planted in 2008-09. The court has also sought to know what the corporation is doing with the funds that have not been utilised. The corporation also …
AHMEDABAD: It's a question of how many of the 15,000 students coming to Gujarat University daily will take BRTS bus. According to the phase II of BRTS plan, the route after passing through the Nehrunagar, will not go up to University bus stand but will take an impromptu right turn …
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Thursday directed the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai and its Tree Authority to state how many trees were cut and how many were planted last year. The court also sought to know what the corporation is doing with the unutilised funds. The corporation also …
New Delhi: Security is an issue, especially when it has to be provided to the plants. The NDMC (New Delhi Municipal Council) is facing the challenge to protect its greens from the city
New Delhi: More than one and a half years ago, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi laid the foundation stone for the Kamla Nagar multi-level parking. However, since then no work has been done at the site. The file of the parking plan has been doing rounds of various departments since …
MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Wednesday allowed the BMC to go ahead with its plans to set up sewage treatment plants and lay pipelines on coastal areas in the city, which house mangroves. A division bench of Justices J N Patel and Vijaya Kapse-Tahilramani asked the municipal corporation to …
After a protest by a group of youth today, Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) announced chalking out strategy to enforce complete ban on the use polythene in city and outskirts. After burning polythene in the premises of SMC office located in Karannagar the group of youth met the commissioner of Srinagar …
Chandigarh: The UT Administration has given its approval for Municipal Corporation councillors to conduct a study tour in Gujarat. A communication to this effect was received on Monday. The clearance assumes significance as the proposals for study tours that were sent earlier had been rejected. In the last tour, 19 …
The incinerator and plasma pyrolysis plant at Goa Medical College & Hospital treating bio-medical waste are not in good health. Also, this premier hospital lacks certain facilities as it treats bio-medical waste from other hospitals as well. This became evident after the Goa State Pollution Control Board that conducted an …
AHMEDABAD: Hepatitis-B scare that swept city followed by anomalies in disposal of biomedical waste (BMW) seem to have finally prompted Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) to plan its own BMW disposal site in a public-private partnership (PPP). Recently, raids by AMC and Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) revealed a deadly industry …
SANTOSH K. KIRO Clean-up act Ranchi, March 12: Kitchen waste will soon become valuable. The civic body in the state capital would set up a plant at Bero, some 35km from here, to convert the waste generated from households into compost
Mulund: The octroi department of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has planned to cut down 230 full-grown trees as part of a beautification project and for extension of the yard near Hari Om Nagar in Mulund east. The process of felling has already begun and almost the entire green stretch of …
Mumbai: Over 25 trees have been felled recently on a land owned by Airport Authority of India (AAI). Residents fear that sooner or later, this plot of land, a green zone, will be encroached by slum dwellers. With an already existing slum at Nehru Nagar which is bordering the AAI …
Mumbai: Nationalist Congress Party MLC from Thane Jitendra Avhad could be penalised by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) under its cleanliness and sanitation bylaws 2006. Ashish Shelar, BJP corporator of Mumbai, demanded that Avhad be punished as per the civic body's rule as he dumped a truckload of garbage at …
Ludhiana, March 5 The pace of development in sewerage and drainage system never matched the increasing population of the city which is approximately 40 lakh today. This is how Ludhiana has been surviving for the past many years despite the fact that both Congress and the SAD-BJP alliance have been …
KOLLAM: Ombudsman for Local Self-Government Institutions M.R.Hariharan has ordered the Kollam Corporation not to fell the remaining 42 trees that had been left after large-scale felling of trees by the Corporation for the widening of the Kappalandimukku-Asramam Muneeswarankoil road here. The order was issued on a complaint filed by environmentalist …
