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
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Delhi Pollution Control Society Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 05/03/2014 regarding Automobile Service Centers situated within the Municipal limits of entire Delhi including New Delhi.
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Nagender Deswal Vs. Chief Secretary & Ors. dated 04/03/2014 regarding the business of dealing with old and unusable vehicles, railway materials and other such machinery has the authorization for carrying on such activities in Delhi.
Delhi Pollution Control Committee issued closure notices to five high-end restaurants and lounge bars located inside the Garden of Five Senses, south Delhi, last week.
NGO Says Site Vital For Groundwater Recharge, But Agency Not Listening
Creating landfills in two villages of Zone P-II in north Delhi, a part of Yamuna floodplains, may contaminate groundwater and further pollute the river. A proposal for this has, however, been made in the zonal development plan by DDA.
