Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Thursday directed the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai and its Tree Authority to state how many trees were cut and how many were planted last year.
New Delhi: Security is an issue, especially when it has to be provided to the plants. The NDMC (New Delhi Municipal Council) is facing the challenge to protect its greens from the city
New Delhi: More than one and a half years ago, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi laid the foundation stone for the Kamla Nagar multi-level parking. However, since then no work has been done at the site. The file of the parking plan has been doing rounds of various departments since one year. So far, even the tender has not yet been awarded.
MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Wednesday allowed the BMC to go ahead with its plans to set up sewage treatment plants and lay pipelines on coastal areas in the city, which house mangroves. A division bench of Justices J N Patel and Vijaya Kapse-Tahilramani asked the municipal corporation to ensure "minimal intervention'' so that mangroves are cut only if absolutely necessary.
After a protest by a group of youth today, Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) announced chalking out strategy to enforce complete ban on the use polythene in city and outskirts.
After burning polythene in the premises of SMC office located in Karannagar the group of youth met the commissioner of Srinagar Municipal Corporation Farooq Ahmad Renzu and demanded complete ban on it.
Chandigarh: The UT Administration has given its approval for Municipal Corporation councillors to conduct a study tour in Gujarat. A communication to this effect was received on Monday.
The incinerator and plasma pyrolysis plant at Goa Medical College & Hospital treating bio-medical waste are not in good health. Also, this premier hospital lacks certain facilities as it treats bio-medical waste from other hospitals as well.
AHMEDABAD: Hepatitis-B scare that swept city followed by anomalies in disposal of biomedical waste (BMW) seem to have finally prompted Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) to plan its own BMW disposal site in a public-private partnership (PPP).
Mulund: The octroi department of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has planned to cut down 230 full-grown trees as part of a beautification project and for extension of the yard near Hari Om Nagar in Mulund east. The process of felling has already begun and almost the entire green stretch of trees next to the highway police chowky has been razed.
