Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Government will close down the industries that will not set up Effluent Treatment Plant (ETP). Dr Hasan Mahmud, State Minister for Environment Ministry, said that government has taken initiatives to increase manpower and activities of the environment bureau. As a part of the initiatives, the government has made the setting …
The government has taken an initiative to amend the Bangladesh Environment Protection Act- 1995 for making it time- befitting to address the environmental hazards and protect the nature. State minister for land Mostafizur Rahman yesterday informed the House that the draft of the amendments to the act has been sent …
Supreme Court judgement dated 06/10/2009 on river Noyyal pollution. The Court was of the opinion that there has been unabated pollution by the members of Tirupur Dyeing Factory Owners. They cannot escape the responsibility to meet out the expenses of reversing the ecology. They are bound to meet the expenses …
The United Nations has designated the first Monday of October every year as World Habitat Day to reflect on the state of towns and cities and the basic right of all to an adequate shelter and to remind the world of its collective responsibility towards human habitat
For a small scale industry it is difficult to construct, operate and maintain an individual treatment facility. Provision of land, expertise and trained staff, procurement of specialized equipment, installation of laboratory, sludge disposal on individual basis, etc will be almost impossible for a small unit. Inception of common effluent treatment …
THE Madras High Court has ordered the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) to go through the report filed by the monitoring committee and submit a timeframe by which it intends to take action for lack of corrective measures by units or common effluent treatment plants located in Karur district. …
Kalawati Eknath Mangela and Parvati Bai Somna do not consider themselves fisherwomen any mo re. Every time they cast nets in the Arabian Sea, off the Tadgam beach in Valsad district of Gujarat, all they catch is garbage.
Mushrooming of dyeing units contributes to the high level of pollution Legal cell demands setting up of an SC Bench in Chennai Tirupur: The Tirupur district unit of the All India Congress Committee
Certain plants absorb pollutants from wastewater for their metabolism. A team from the National Botanical Research Institute in Lucknow, planned a plant-based project to clean the Ganga. U N Rai, environment scientist who heads the team, speaks to Savvy Soumya Misra On how the project began With the help of …
NEW DELHI: A sum of Rs.23.04 crore would be released by the Delhi Government to the Delhi State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation for this financial year for control of industrial pollution in Delhi as the construction of ten Common Effluent Treatment Plants has already been completed by the agency. …
Common Effluent Treatment Plant Not Complying With Pollution Norms Harish Joshi | TNN Bharuch: Tough time lies ahead for chemical industries located at critically polluted industrial estates of Ankleshwar, Panoli and Vapi. Ministry of Environment and Forests, vide its circular dated August 25, has directed Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) …
Dense population, high industrial growth, increasing pollutant loads and a lack of wastewater infrastructure in Dhaka have jointly created a serious threat to the city's sustainability. The industrial wastes caused severe degradation of the watersheds. 60% of the total pollution load comes from around 7,000 industrial units located within the …
The Government of Karnataka has announced a State Policy for Special Economic Zones-2009 vide Govt.Order No. CI/114/SPI/2007 dtd: 28.2.2009 to support and encourage development of SEZs in the State. As per Rule 5(5) of Central SEZ Rules 2006 certain fiscal benefits have been extended to SEZ Developers/ Co-developers/Units in the …
Melvyn Thomas | TNN Surat: The city of diamonds and textile may have earned the distinction of being one of the cleanest cities in the country, but it lags behind when it comes to keeping a check on industrial pollution. Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) in a recent meeting held …
Stalin criticises AIADMK Government for neglecting industrial growth Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin looking at the machines installed at the factory of Gangotri Textiles Ltd., at SIPCOT Industrial Estate, in Perundurai, Erode on Monday.
