Solid Waste

A three-year-old case related to garbage disposal in village panchayats will come for final hearing on November 29 before the Division Bench of Bombay High Court at Goa. The double bench comprising of Justices D G Karnik and F M Reis directed all the VPs to file a compliance report over the garbage disposal site by October 31.

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KOLKATA, 2 SEPT: The state pollution control board has lodged an FIR against a person who operated an illegal biomedical waste dump yard in Chowbaga, South 24 Parganas and used to sell the waste from several big and reputed private hospitals and nursing homes of the city as plastic scrap to another trader. The West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) is currently running an internal audit ag

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Following The Indian Express report, building of Pinjore road put on hold, debris disposal gets priority The Himachal Pradesh Pollution Control Board (HPPCB) has asked the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to immediately stop work on the Pinjore-Shimla highway.

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Of around 302 bird hits reported in 2009 at 79 airports in the country, close to 54 occurred in Mumbai. Responding to an RTI query by DNA, the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said the number of bird hits in the city had gone up from 26 in 2007 to 54. However, the DGCA revealed that Delhi still recorded the maximum number of hits each year.

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New Delhi: Having failed to clean the city before Commonwealth Games, MCD has now sought public participation.

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ANGUL: Waste spilling onto the road along the canal in the town continues to be an eyesore. The problem persists despite the fact that the municipality has been allotted five acres at Kusasinnga for dumping garbage. It has also availed of the sanctioned ` 11 lakh in March last. However, there has been no headway in the tender floated by the municipality for the boundary wall.

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4,500 workers will be on the job in three shifts; cleaning divided into four levels Figure this: Over 1.63 lakh kg waste will be produced per day during the Commonwealth Games fortnight, all the venues put together.

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The city will soon boast of a cleaner shoreline. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has drafted a concrete phase-wise plan to tidy the entire stretch from Colaba to Tardeo and Haji Ali to Worli village. Eighty metric tonne of waste will be extracted every day along these stretches. The civic body will pump around Rs1.5 crore into this clean-up operation.

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NEW DELHI: The Commonwealth Games Organising Committee on Tuesday said that elaborate arrangements for waste management and cleaning were in place at all the Games venues, including the Games Village. The Organising Committee has engaged three vendors for primary collection of waste estimated at 163.2 tonnes per day. The vendors have been selected through a global open tender process.

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Green drive to take time, says official - NCP to plant 2000 saplings on Purno birthday; Manipur’s Rs 50-lakh scheme seeks people’s support Imphal, Aug.

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