Taking serious note of the violation of environmental regulations, the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has issued a closure notice to 112 stainless steel pickling units in the Wazirpur Ind
The National Green Tribunal issued notices on Tuesday to resident welfare associations of various colonies, and all government and private hospitals enlisted in Delhi to submit affidavits on instal
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has directed the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF), the Delhi government and three civic bodies to explain within four weeks the steps taken to a
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the Ministry of Environment, Delhi Government, and three corporations for not taking action even as the hazardous garbage is dumped
Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has threatened to seal the Wazirpur industrial area if it continues to violate environmental regulations.
The area with 2,000-odd industrial units is allegedly discharging untreated waste water into the sewers. The waste water doesn’t reach the common effluent treatment plant (CETP) as the sewerage system is broken, says a team of DPCC scientists, which recently visited the area.
Four years after the radiation leak of cobalt 60 at the Mayapuri scrap yard, there is no way yet to detect radiation in the waste market.
Last year, National Green Tribunal had directed the ministry of environment and forests to install scanners at the gates of the market. But that proposition seemed expensive, so MoEF decided that scrap handlers should keep handheld radiation detectors. But even these have not been procured.
Garbage, silt and dirty filters characterise the over 120 rain water harvesting systems (RWHSs) set up at its stations by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, while other government authorities like t
Residents of Sukhdev Vihar, Okhla, have on Saturday written to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) against Delhi’s Jindal’s Timarpur-Okhla waste
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi Jal Board, Forest and the Irrigation Department and the Central Public Works Department on Wednesday faced the wrath
