Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Madhumangal Shukla Vs Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change & Others dated 23/08/2016 regarding Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) management in Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh. It has been pointed out that Municipal Solid Waste of Vrindavan was being dumped on different places and even on the banks of River Yamuna. The unregulated dumping of MSW on the floodplain area of River Yamuna is a new development and is playing havoc with the floodplain.

Mathura: Local activists here accused small factories involved in silver-plating and manufacturing silver anklets of discharging untreated waste containing highly toxic chemicals, adding that the l

Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Giriraj Parikrama Sanrakshan Sansthan & Ors. Vs. Department of Environment & Forests & Ors. dated 02/09/2014 regarding throwing of municipal solid waste on roads in the town of Govardhan in Mathura. The counsel appearing for Applicant submits that the administration is not taking any effective steps for proper collection and disposal of MSW and in the Holy ground garbage is being dumped anywhere and everywhere. He has submitted certain photographs.

Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Giriraj Parikrama Sanrakshan Sansthan & Ors. Vs. Department of Environment & Forests & Ors. dated 22/04/2014 regarding cutting of trees in the town of Govardhan in Mathura district.

Original Source: http://www.greentribunal.gov.in/orderinpdf/194-2014(MApp)_22Apr2014.pdf

Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Giriraj Parikrama Sanrakshan Sansthan & Others Vs Department of Environment and Forests & Others dated 01/04/2014 regarding cutting of trees in the town of Govardhan in Mathura district.

Original Source: http://www.greentribunal.gov.in/orderinpdf/229-2013(OA)_2Apr2014.pdf

Alleging that Delhi was emptying its 16 drains into the Yamuna river which was later converging with the Ganga and polluting it, the UP government has issued a notice to Arvind Kejriwal government

Industrialisation and urban growth in the Agra-Mathura region has endangered the world famous Taj Mahal and other historical monuments which are under constant threat from the ever increasing environmental pollution.

LUCKNOW: The claim of the UP forest department that water sharing with Mathura refinery is affecting the health of Sur Sarovar bird sanctuary in Agra has found credence in the report of the Bombay

New Delhi: The government is building interceptors, industries continue to discharge harmful effluents and people are walking from Mathura to Delhi: all for the sake of reviving a dead river.

In a move that will give the better and cleanear environment agenda a boost, the reach of Euro-IV fuel (diesel and petrol) will be expanded to seven more cities in the current financial year. This less polluting fuel was launched about a year ago in 13 cities.

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