LUCKNOW: Alarmed with the emergence of swine flu, the Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) is mulling to establish a pig colony, on the lines of cattle colony, which is situated on Hardoi road.

Alarmed by the threat of swine flu, the Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) has decided to conduct a drive to catch pigs across the city. Teams comprising health officials and professional pig catchers will be formed and they will be visiting the entire city and catch pigs.

Blame it on the general elections when millions of people cry for a drop of water across the state.

But thank the state for its decision to dig up 23,000-odd tube-wells, even if that comes at the fag end of summer with time for monsoon to set in.

The mosquito menace in the city has assumed alarming proportions. Residents of many localities have been blaming the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) for this. They allege that the negligence of the civic body with regard to controlling the menace has been leading to the present developments.

Shimla: Chief Secretary Asha Swaroop said efforts should be made to reduce the quantity of waste generated, besides ensuring its disposal in a scientific manner to protect the fragile hill ecology.

She was speaking at the training workshop on

The lack of apathy by the civic bodies and police has turned a road in East of Kailash area of South Delhi into a dumping ground for garbage, construction material and accidental vehicles. The road that was constructed by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, almost eight years back, at Rs 6 crore to reduce the heavy traffic jams on the Moolchand - Ashram stretch.

Pune The Pune Municipal Corporation has set out to ensure that information on its website is regularly updated and authentic. It is making it compulsory for officials to publish the date of posting every report, project and circular along with the name of the author.

LUCKNOW: A clean Gomti, one of the important poll planks of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in the general elections, has once again been battered to the background as tons of municipal solid waste gets dumped on the flood plain area of the river. The dumping, officials said, was being done to level up a section of land proposed to be converted into a park near Gandhi Setu close to Ambedkar Udyan.

The Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) has decided to utilise tons of domestic garbage and carcass of animals in a different way. The LMC in place of dumping garbage and carcass on the outskirts of the city will now use it for production of cooking gas. The task has been assigned to a city-based NGO. The decision was taken at a meeting held at the directorate of local bodies here on Thursday.

Taking a serious note of increasing cases of water contamination in the city, Lucknow Municipal Corporation(LMC) and Jal Sansthan have decided to conduct a joint drive across the city.The civic authorities have also introduced several other measures to prevent the residents from several water-borne diseases.