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NEW DELHI: Delhi

SALEM: Tirumanimutharu River that vivisects the city has become a major dump yard for garbage.

Shops and business establishments on the banks of the river dump their waste including plastics and used leaves, into it.
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Take afforestation fee and denotify our homes, forest land residents tell state governmentMumbai: Builders are systematically destroying mangroves in the Mira-Bhayander region, dumping debris and garbage on them and hacking and dredging the soil for illegal constructions, an NGO of environmentalists has alleged.

Lucknow: The Lucknow University students did not shy away from donning an unusually different role on Tuesday. Just a handful of students, 15 of them to be precise, from different departments of the Lucknow University came together to clean the campus. The role was short-lived but the students are more than determined that its impact will certainly last long.

The Margao Municipal Council appears literally struggling with the door-to-door garbage collection scheme for want of adequate manpower and machinery.

Trickling of leachate - pollutant that seeps through garbage - into the Thane creek from the Mulund dumping ground has become a major cause of concern for fishermen as well as environmentalists. The leachate, say environmentalists, has affected marine life and the day is not far when the ground water table will also be affected by it.

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As part of integrated solid waste management programme

Photo: M. Periasamy

PROMOTING CLEANLINESS: Mayor R. Venkatachalam (third right) hands over garbage bins to residents at Saibaba Colony in the city on Friday. Corporation Commissioner Anshul Mishra (right) is in the picture.

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Margao Civic body