Micro plans on table to clean up Dhanbad air - Pollution control board preparing digital map to identify industrial units in district

Dhanbad, June 22: Scientists, environmentalists and owners of industrial units today sat together to work out ways to clean up the air of Dhanbad, the most polluted industrial hub of Jharkhand.

Dhanbad, June 14: More people can now look forward to safer homes.

After successfully shifting more than 200 people from underground fire affected areas of Jharia Coalfield region to Belgarhia, Jharia Rehabilitation Development Authority (JRDA) has now shifted its focus towards creating another township near Belgarhia.

Jamshedpur, May 31: The month of May has stolen the thunder from April, literally.

With as many as four Nor

Dhanbad, April 22: Scientists, academics and officials from more than 50 organisations and institutes across the country congregated at the Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research (CIMFR) here to partake in a seminar on

Dhanbad, April 21: The town planning committee of Jharia Rehabilitation Development Authority (JRDA)

Schoolteachers, politicians and officials of the district administration today joined hands to chalk out measures to protect the environment.

Dhanbad, April 7: More than 90 per cent coal traders evade tax while 80 per cent of the remaining 10 per cent file their returns in other cities outside the state like Calcutta, slowly, but steadily, draining the district

Dhanbad, April 2: Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL) has requested the state government to utilise the extra money it has paid as royalty cess for 2009- 10 fiscal to execute the Rs 7,028-crore master plan to rehabilitate the victims of a raging underground fire in Jharia.

- Sanitation workers to be deployed on two Dhanbad trains from July

Come July, Dhanbad-Alleppey Express and Dhanbad-Ludhiana Ganga Sutlej Express will set out on a journey from the foul and filthy to the spic and span.

The forest department is out to educate schoolchildren about the need to save the environment.

Today, a poster campaign was launched at the schools as part of a monthlong programme under which several events, including debate and essay competition, workshops, rally and training for teachers, have been planned.

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