Delhi

Course charted

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (mcd) has released the capital's first garbage master plan. It involves putting in place a mechanism of engaging private operators for collecting and transporting

Publication Date:

30/07/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20040731

pp:

0

Tags:

Waste Treatment, Planning, Delhi

India

Hg s a plague

Mercury hits Indian healthcare

Publication Date:

30/07/2004

Author(s): Nidhi Jamwal

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Health Care, Mercury, Research, Legislation, NGO, India, Delhi, Toxic Wastes

Water Resources

Violent homecoming

10,000 families from Delhi s Yamuna Pushta slums were resettled in Bawana this March. NIDHI JAMWAL went to meet them

Publication Date:

30/07/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Water Resources, Slums, Sanitation, Waste Disposal, Rehabilitation, Planning, Delhi

Industry

Give us today our daily threat

Twisha Lahiri works at the Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute in Kolkata. For some years now, she has been busy measuring the impact of air pollution on people in Kolkata and Delhi. Her results

Publication Date:

30/07/2004

Author(s): Sunita Narain

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20040731

pp:

5

Tags:

Air Pollution, Vehicular Pollution, Cancer, Respiratory Diseases, Euro II, Technology, Research, India, Delhi

India

Trap them all

MCD adapts new measure to combat dengue and malaria

Publication Date:

14/07/2004

Author(s): Sarita Bahl

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Malaria, Dengue, Technology, Delhi

Climate Change

Snowstorms in Delhi?

The Day After Tomorrow

Publication Date:

14/07/2004

Author(s): Anju Sharma

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Climate Change, Delhi

Food Policy

Food for all

The right-to-food campaign gets a fillip with the Common Minimum Programme of the new government incorporating far-reaching commitments on food security and the evolving constitutional doctrine tha

Publication Date:

02/07/2004

Author(s): Sukumar Muralidharan

Source: Frontline (Chennai)

Tags:

Food Security, India, Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), Supreme Court, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Haryana, Arunachal, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Orissa (Odisha), Punjab, West Bengal, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)

Transport

The imperative of restricting vehicle numbers in Delhi: designing a parking policy to manage travel demand in the city

In this report, EPCA would like to point out that in the overall context, Delhi government needs to design specific measures in addition to improving public transportation system as levers to restrain traffic and their usage with the help of a phase-in time bound plan.

Publication Date:

01/07/2004

Source: Environment Pollution (Prevention & Control) Authority

Tags:

Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA), Parking Policy, Supreme Court, Delhi

Transport

The imperative of controlling vehicle numbers and increasing access: report on public transport projects in Delhi

On January 23, 2004, the Amicus Curiae for the ongoing public interest litigation on air pollution in the National Capital Region of Delhi had submitted an IA (IA No. 226) to the Hon

Publication Date:

01/07/2004

Source: Environment Pollution (Prevention & Control) Authority

Tags:

Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA), Public Transport, Supreme Court, Delhi, Vehicles

India