Only 13 Out Of 27 Units Operational: PMC

Pune: Only 50% of the biogas plants set up in the city with an aim to decentralize garbage processing system are functioning.
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has 27 biogas plants with a joint capacity to process about 133 tonne garbage.At present,only 65tonne is processed in 13 plants which are functional.

That burning heap of garbage could cause more than just bad odour and smoke.

Pune: Newly-appointed PMC commissioner Vikas Deshmukh said on Wednesday that maximum utilisation of existing garbage processing units and increasing manpower to deal with related problems will be h

Civic Body Begins Process To Axe, Transplant Them

Tree activists in the city are up in arms because the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has advertised for felling or transplantation of hundreds of trees in just two months.

Pune: A committee set up by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has recommended uniform noise levels for sirens and horns in all vehicles.

Pune: There is better awareness about genetic testing for cancer in the city.

Reacting to the safety audit report of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) route on Alandi-Nagar road, member of the Nagrik Chetna Manch, Qaneez Sukhrani has said that all recommendations of the report sho

One of the ten recommendations suggested for safe operations of Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) on the Ahmednagar-Alandi Road by IIT Bombay's safety audit report is minimal bus-to-platform gap.

Referring to wide gaps found during normal operations in the BRT systems in other large cities in Asia and America, the report recommended that during the trial run of the BRTS on this route in the city, this safety aspect should be carefully looked into.

PUNE: The amount of black carbon or soot, a potential cancer-causing substance, has been gradually increasing over Pune city since 2005, shows a study conducted by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM).

Soot is a human carcinogenic which is considered second only to carbon dioxide in causing climate change or global warming.