A District Water and Sanitation Mission (DWSM) has been constituted in Gurgaon to formulate, manage and monitor drinking water and sanitation projects.

The mission, headed by the Gurgaon Deputy Commissioner, will also scrutinise and approve drinking water and sanitation projects submitted by the gram panchayats and forward them to State-level committees if required.

Chandigarh: Aimed at creating awarness about environmental issues, the first-of-its kind Environment Training Institute at Gurgaon has proved to be non-starter due to resource crunch the Haryana Government. Proposed to be set up during the 11th Five Year Plan (2007-12), the institute could not be set up “due to lack of funds”, official sources said. A budget of Rs 2 lakh for environment awareness programmes in the 2011-12 budget had been released for the Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB), Panchkula.

Mining in Aravalli continues unabated despite a Supreme Court ban on it.

The consequent price in terms of human casualty is huge - on Thursday, at least 10 labourers were feared killed when a stone mine collapsed due to blasting in the forest land near Bhiwadi in Rajasthan's Alwar district.

Five bodies were found, including two, on Friday. An operation was on to recover more bodies.

With this, the total toll related to mining activities in the district has risen to 48 in the past two years.

Population has started to swell in Delhi’s suburbs. Gurgaon and Noida (Gautam Buddha Nagar) are among the top five places in India that recorded the highest decadal growth rate in population.
While Gurgaon recorded a 74% rise in population between 2001 and 2011, Noida saw a rise by almost 52%, followed by Ghaziabad at 40.66%. India saw a 17.6% increase in population over the decade. Kurung Kumey — a small district in Arunachal Pradesh bordering China — recorded the highest decadal increase in population at 111%, followed by Yanam in Puducherry at 77.15%.

Gurgaon, India’s aspiring lower Manhattan, may soon end up with no water, but overflowing sewage.

In 2006, the water level in Gurgaon had fallen to 51 metre below ground level. And if the water table plunges to 200 metre, the industrial and upscale residential township would be left with nothing but dry rocks, the Central Groundwater Board has projected.

A recent analysis by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), however, suggests that this might happen sooner than later.

‘Excreta Matters’

At Solar Energy Centre in Gurgaon, solar ACs have replaced conventional devices. Some other buildings have switched to alternative cooling techniques to limit electricity bills

Transportation of illegal minerals in Haryana also stopped

The Supreme Court on Monday stopped illegal mining in the villages of Kota, Gangani, Sarai, Mohammadpur and Kharag Jalalpur in Mewat district of Haryana, taking note of the report submitted by the Central Empowered Committee about large-scale illegal mining taking place in these areas.

NEW DELHI: To encourage collaboration and networking between India's CSR groups and NGO communities, exhibition organizer, UBM India, is launching NGO India 2012 at Epicenter, Gurgaon. The two-day event, starting from Friday, March 16, will host stalls from over 150 NGOs and foundations. Free workshops and paid-for conferences will run at the event.

The earthquake today that jolted the National Capital and the adjoining NCR region has brought the safety of buildings in and around the capital back into focus. Two other temblors had hit the area in the past six months.

Strong tremors that lasted almost 10 seconds at 1.11 pm today sparked panic among the denizens in Delhi and other parts of north India. No casualties have been reported from the region.