Mumbai: Days after the Supreme Court dismissed an appeal in connection with a case of alleged illegal construction on Pune’s Mutha river, but kept open the questions of law involved, the National G

Downstream Portion Of River Highly Polluted

Lucknow: Hinting at the dangerous level of pollutants dissolved in the Gomti riverbed, UP Jal Nigam on Tuesday informed the Parliamentary Committee that around 37 million litres per day of untreated sewage is flowing into the river. Even though the official figures don’t ring an alarming bell at the moment, few LMC officials said the extent of untreated sewage flowing into the river is much more than what is being quoted by the Jal Nigam.

GVMC will introduce localised solid waste management in all the 72 wards of the city from March 1.

Announcing this at the inaugural of a national workshop on ‘Appropriate solid waste management options for small and medium towns in India’ here on Tuesday, Municipal Commissioner M.V. Satyanaryana said all through the month of February people would be educated on the new waste disposal method. Though the city had a landfill at Kapuluppada it was not scientifically managed, he said.

In some good news for the city, Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) may soon get approval to implement a city sanitation plan worth over Rs3,000 crore.

PUNE: Citizens of Pimpri-Chincwhad can expect to get 24x7 water supply within four years. The water supply project will be implemented in phases and the corporation is planning to get funds from the central government under the JNNURM, municipal commissioner ShrikarPardeshi said on Thursday.

Speaking at a two-day workshop on 24x7 water supply for Pimpri-Chincwhad, Pardeshi said the corporation has implemented a pilot project for 24x7 water supply at Yamunanagar in Nigdi. "We have achieved 80% success. We will replicate the pilot project at Premlok Park in Chinchwad and in the remaining two zones of the corporation."

With water crisis becoming a permanent scenario for the last three years, the draft civic budget presented by municipal commissioner Mahesh Pathak on Tuesday has proposed Rs 223.08 crore for water

The urban development ministry has issued fresh guidelines to all states to install preventive security apparatus in all modes of public transport –– buses, taxis and autorickshaws ––for safe travel of women and children. The circular, which stressed on installation of two cameras inside buses, was issued on Monday in the light of the recent gang rape in the national Capital.

Highlighting the unreliability of public transport in cities, UD secretary Sudhir Krishna said in his letter, “Presently, most of the cities in India do not have reliable, comfortable, quick and affordable public transport. However, in big cities, the public transport provided lacks in availability of frequency, extent of coverage and adequate safety measures.”

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) can now push its river restoration as well as construction and development of heritage sites along the Mula-Mutha river projects to completion at the earliest.

The civic body is trying to identify place for more transfer stations for proper municipal solid waste management under JNNURM project.

Hyderabad: The city could be heading for a major health crisis if current conditions in the city continue the way they are, say experts.

Such an event could very well happen if the municipal authorities do not pull up their socks to improve sanitation and urgently clean up the city. Already, the incidence of dengue and malaria have doubled this year. While malaria cases crossed the 430 mark in 2012, compared to less than 200 cases in 2011, dengue cases saw an alarming rise from about 150 in 2011 to over 300 this year. Even cholera and jaundice cases have shown an upward trend. Urban development and health experts warn of the danger of uncleared garbage lying on the streets.