Noting that the issue of public health and safety was more important than monetary considerations, the Delhi high court on Monday directed the Union government to constitute a panel of technical and medical experts to ascertain the health hazards, if any, from mobile phone towers and submit a report by September 15.
Bhopal: The development plans of 96 cities of the state will be completed by the month of July while those of ten municipal corporations by December. By the year 2013-14, development plans of all the civic bodies in the state will be completed. Madhya Pradesh is the first state in the country where urban development plans are being made on such a large scale.
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has planned to convert the electric crematorium in the Green Park Extension area into the CNG-based furnace. The civic body has invited private firms for conversion, operation and maintenance of the electric furnace into the CNG-based furnace.
The agency getting the contract will also undertake the related civil works, officials said.
Idol worship has been in the practice in India since ancient time. In present scenario, metals, ornaments, oily substances, synthetic colours,chemical are used to make polish and decorate idols for worship and when theseidols are immersed our aquatic and surrounding environment get severally affected. Hence, there is urgent need to develop the guidelines for idol immersion.
Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation(BMC) claims it is ready with its pre-monsoon plan. A ward-wise control room will be commissioned from May 20 and manpower will be readied for disaster preparedness.
The National Disaster Relief Flood (NDRF) will form three groups of 45 jawans each for the city, the western suburbs and eastern suburbs.
Projects worth over Rs 300 crore have been mooted by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to ensure a comprehensive solution to the water scarcity problem in different pockets of the city, but faulty planning coupled with lethargy and legal complications have ensured non-completion and faulty implementation of these schemes.
Zirakpur : 100 more report at medical camp; 400 taken ill
Contaminated water supply was the main reason behind the spread of epidemic in Lohgarh village of Zirakpur as two of the total five water samples taken from the affected areas have failed the purity test.
Mumbai: In order to boost the morale of enumerators, Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM), the census executing agency, is contemplating a public felicitation for the fastest 100 enumerators.
