Kalpana Pathak / Mumbai December 30, 2009, 0:06 IST
People will have to pay 50p-Re 1 more per litre of petrol and diesel when 11 cities in India move to the Euro IV emission norm, and the rest of the country to Euro III, in April 2010.
A CPCB report says the quality of air, land and underground water of the district is alarmingly polluted
VELLORE has been rated among the top 10 `alarmingly polluted clusters' in the country. It has become an environmental time bomb, ticking away with the rise in industrial pollution here.
Till now, pollution levels in residential areas of Delhi were known to be dangerously high. But a new methodology to calculate the pollution in air, water and land has detected some new villains.
NEW DELHI: An increased number of checks and strengthened maintenance system are required for the Tata Motors Ltd. (TML) supplied low-floor Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) buses, TML commercial vehicle business unit president Ravi Pisharody said here on Thursday.
Worried over the incidents of fire on low floor buses, Environment Pollution Control Authority chairman Bhure Lal has suggested both DTC and Tata Motors carry out a double checking system in these buses.
Mumbai To meet global standards, the Union Environment Ministry, in a move that went largely unnoticed, had reduced permissible air pollution limits last month though the earlier norms were not being met.