The right to the city, an idea mooted by French radical philosophers in 1968, has become a popular slogan among right to housing activists and inclusive growth policymakers. In Indian cities unprecedented and unregulated growth, incremental land use change, privatisation and chaotic civic infrastructure provisioning are fracturing resources created over centuries and reducing the right to the city to mere right to housing and property, thus short-changing the concept’s transformative potential.
Trophic State Index (TSI) of Nainital Lake has been determined using secchi disk transparency as well as using Landsat 7 ETM bands. Various interpolation techniques have been tested and the best one has been applied to prepare the water quality images of Nainital Lake.
Despite 26 years implementation of programmes to control pollution, water in our rivers remains critically polluted says CAG in this first ever performance audit of water pollution in India.
Palike plans to develop an island in the water body
Damage control: Members of the Hasiru Usiru work to fill a rupture on the Yediyur Lake embankment. Yediyur lake, one of the few remaining water bodies in the City, may soon shrink in size or even perish if the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has its way.
Imphal, 27 Oct: Winged guests migrating to Manipur as well as countless fishes who swim across from bordering Burma for breeding now have to look elsewhere.
In a significant development, the Committee appointed under the Chairmanship of Justice Mr. N. K. Patil, Judge of the
Karnataka High Court and Chairman High Court Legal Services Committee, in response to the Public Interest Litigation
Rajagopal Nagar corporator H N Gangadhara wants to quit as corporator because he can no longer handle the public outrage against the garbage menace.
Gangadhara appealed to BBMP engineer (Lakes and Environment) B V Satish to increase the number of sanitation workers and vehicles deputed for garbage clearance at the earliest. However, he was told to wait for a month in view of the new contract, which the official believed “would improve the situation.”
Thousands of fish perished on Monday at Kalkere Kalyani (pond) in Ramamurthy Nagar ward due to high level of water contamination.
Dumping of drums containing hydrophilic softener — used in the textile industry — into the lake is said to have contaminated the water. The drums were earlier kept on the bank of the lake. However, they were dumped into the lake during the immersion of Ganesha idols in the pond.
