Mumbai: In its effort to provide uninterrupted water supply to citizens, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has decided to outsource work instead of carrying out reformsdepartmentally.
BHUBANESWAR: While the steel industry is reeling under the impact of the global meltdown, smallscale iron ore processing units of the State are facing a challenge of a different kind.
Although the iron ore processing units of Keonjhar district have been demanding assured supply of ore lumps at a reasonable rate, the Orissa Mining Corporation (OMC) has been ignoring the SSIs.
New Delhi: At its new landfill sites, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi plans to generate electricity, cooking gas, organic manure and bricks from the waste generated in the city. To come up at Okhla and Timarpur, the landfill sites will have a waste treatment plant for which the corporation is likely to join hands with the East Delhi Waste Processing Company Private Limited (EDWPCL).
Mumbai: Breaking new ground : Civic authorities to tap methane from closed grounds for 20 MW
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is getting ready to enter the energy sector and intends producing around 20 MW from waste and putting it on the distribution grid.
MUMBAI: The slowdown has forced the BMC to act tough with central, state and semi-government organisations.
The civic body plans to instal water meters in government properties across the city so that it can calculate error-free water consumption by these units.
In a non-descript slum in Jahangirpuri, the hair you throw into your bathroom bin transforms into wigs for idols, and the toys you dispose of make their way into second-hand markets.
New Delhi: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi will provide intra dermal anti-rabies vaccine at 12 health centres in the city. Unlike the old vaccine, which is injected in the muscle, the new vaccine is injected under the topmost layer of the skin.
Private hospitals are already using the new vaccine, but it is for the first time that it will be used at a public health centre in India.
