Mumbai: The already delayed Mumbai Sewage Disposal Project may be even further delayed as the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is up against a rather peculiar problem. The civic administration does not know just how to dispose of the sludge resulting from the treatment of sewage water for non-potable purposes.
An alleged attempt to fill a pond on Topsia Road (South) has united residents in the area in a bid to save it. Water from this pond has helped douse many a fire in Topsia.
In a setback to the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh, legal experts have shot down its proposal to apply for certified emission reduction credits (CER). The civic body was contemplating applying to the United Nations Frame Work Convention on Climate Change for CERs and had sought legal opinion on the issue.
Nagercoil: The Municipal Council has decided not to allow use of plastic items under 20 microns and those violating this decision will be slapped a fine of Rs.5,000.
A resolution to this effect would adopted at the council meeting to be held here on Thursday.
5 tippers worth Rs 78 lakh bought for lifting garbage
Cleaning of Budda Nullah seems to be topping the priority list of the local municipal corporation. To clean huge dumps of garbage on both sides of the nullah, authorities have purchased five new tippers and a JCB loader, which will lift more than 50,000 cubic foot of garbage near the nullah in coming days.
To save on construction and maintenance costs as well as earn revenue, the New Delhi Municipal Council proposes to set up 85 new garbage stations and public toilet utility blocks on a public-private partnership basis north of Rajpath.
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is all set to begin work on a multi-level parking lot in Pitampura, West Delhi. BJP leader and the Leader of Opposition, Delhi Legislative Assembly, Vijay Kumar Malhotra, laid the foundation stone for the parking lot on Monday.
A couple of days after the Supreme Court- appointed committee on environment matters reportedly directed the MCD not to extend its "parking lots under parks" schemes beyond the nine venues for which work orders have been awarded, the MCD said that all was well with its scheme of constructing 24 such parking lots.
TO meet the increased demand for water in the summer season, Kharar Municipal Council (MC) on Thursday decided to augment the drinking water supply from March 1 onwards. The MC has decided to provide a daily 11-hour supply in three shifts
