Given that the Goa state pollution control board (GSPCB) recently pulled up industrial units for dumping their waste outside the Cuncolim industrial estate, Nuvem villagers have questioned how the
Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhra Raje has spoken to Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal over the "unchecked supply of contaminated water" through canal bodies.
The Himachal Pradesh Pollution Control Board has introduced additional heavy metal parameters, periodic checking of air quality and ordered disconnection of power supply at 41 erring industrial uni
Stink from water of a canal badly polluted by toxic waste of a recently closed factory, which was producing starch powder from potato at Tilokpur in Akkelpur upazila of Bogra, still remains a nuisa
FEROZEPUR: Perturbed over supply of contaminated canal water to Rajasthan and alleged callous attitude of Punjab government to check its quality, Hanumangarh-based progressive farmers Shobha Singh
The West Bengal environment department has taken action against 85 industrial units in the State for disposing the sewage coming out of these units into the rivers, including the Hooghly.
Just why is it so difficult for the pollution control boards to check contamination of our rivers despite frequent closure notices and punitive action against the guilty?
Unchecked littering has cost us our rivers and this is particularly true about Sabarmati which today has more garbage than water downstream in the city.
Even though Rajasthan Chief Minister has written to CM Parkash Singh Badal to check the discharge of industrial waste in Gung and Indira Gandhi Canal, industrial units continue to dump the waste in
