Bus ridership in Delhi has dropped from 60% in 2000 to 41% now. Every year, Delhi needs an area the size of 310 football fields for parking its vehicles. And Delhi has one of the highest particulate matter (PM10) levels in South Asia.
These are some of the findings of a recent Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) assessment of air pollution and policies of different cities in dealing with it. That gives you a comprehensive picture of the growing vehicular population and the resultant pollution.
Terming the spread of dengue in the capital as alarming, union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Thursday ordered the state to take immediate actions like increasing beds for dengue patients and ensuring availability of platelets in hospitals.
A spike in the number of dengue cases reported in the capital over the past one month prompted Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad to hold a review meeting with senior officials from the Delhi g
After Hauz Khas shock from NGT, eating-out industry wakes up to environment norms
Hauz Khas Village in south Delhi was deserted last weekend, thanks to Pankaj Sharma. The normally bustling warren of lanes lined with restaurants and boutiques was brought to a grinding halt by the National Green Tribunal (NGT), which insisted that any establishment not adhering to environmental regulations had to close. Some of them have reopened since then after promising to abide by the rules.
In an order passed on Wednesday, the Delhi High Court blamed “unhygienic and unfriendly ecological behaviour by the residents of Delhi” for the recurrence of vector-borne diseases.
The spike in dengue cases this year in the national Capital has left the city health authorities in a tizzy, with over 110 cases on an average in a day during the four days till September 23.
Though Total Area Has Climbed To 20%, Forests Are Mostly On The Outskirts
The government has been congratulating itself on how Delhi’s green cover has increased over the years from 1.48% in 1993 to about 20% in 2011. However, these forests are highly fragmented. Delhi has little islands of forest, especially in the fringe areas, but that doesn’t help in enriching biodiversity or maintaining the health of the forests.
An emergency meeting of the Central Zone of the South Delhi Municipal Corporation on Wednesday unanimously decided to organise door-to-door dengue control checks with the help of domestic breeding
Green Tribunal gives them four weeks to install Effluent Treatment Plants
The National Green Tribunal on Wednesday provided some relief to 26 restaurants operating in South Delhi’s Hauz Khas Village by granting them conditional approval to start operating again.
In a relief to 26 restaurant owners, whose businesses had been shut down four days ago, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday granted them conditional approval to reopen.
As many as 34 eateries had been closed down last Saturday by the NGT after a plea filed by Pankaj Sharma had claimed that they were operating without clearances and discharging waste water untreated.
