Ranchi, May 4: For all its efforts to gift five new incinerators to the state, the pollution control board is undoing the good work by sitting on hundreds of applications from hospitals and nursing homes, seeking permission to handle and dispose of medical waste on their own.
According to the Biomedical Waste Management Act 1998, every hospital, nursing home or any other medical entity has to o
The Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB) has selected a Delhi-based agency to set up five new incinerators for quick disposal of biomedical wastes although another firm had quoted the lowest price.
Ranchi, April 28: The committee formed by the government to suggest a slum policy for Jharkhand has recommended rehabilitation of only BPL individuals among those displaced by the statewide anti-encroachment drive, signalling no reprieve for the other sections.
The three-member panel, headed by development commissioner Debashish Gupta and including revenue secretary N.N.
Ranchi, April 26: Swamped by complaints against a not-so-exhaustive BPL list, which has also thrown a spanner in its ambitious ration card programme, the state government has decided to launch without delay a fresh survey of poverty-stricken families in the rural belt for which it has already received a corpus of Rs 3 crore from the Centre.
In a related development, it has also extended the dea
Jamshedpur, April 15: Vandalism by political workers this morning stalled a public hearing on pollution and green issues organised by Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB), as protesters objected to the venue.
No sooner than the hearing began at Michael John Auditorium around 8.15am, 20 protesters led by BJP worker Vikas Singh demanded that the venue be shifted to an open-air venue in
Ranchi, April 15: Jharkhand High Court today once again pulled up the government and the state power board for erratic supply in the capital.
A division bench of Chief Justice Bhagwati Prasad and Justice Prakash Tatia, while hearing a PIL on poor power supply in Ranchi, said all government and Jharkhand State Electricity Board (JSEB) officials should be punished for their incompetence.
Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) today scrapped the master plan of 1983, on the basis of which the present anti-encroachment drive is being carried out in the capital, and sent the same for ratification by the urban development department, even as bulldozers remained silent through the day as protesters hit the streets in support of the displaced.
- Focus on setting up pani panchayats, committees
Ranchi, March 23: Faced with the prospect of another parched summer, the government is readying to tap every source to augment water supply in Jharkhand.
Once the budget session of the Assembly is over, water resources minister Sudesh Mahto is expected to expedite formalities for setting up a Water Regulatory Authority and Water Commission, and
Ranchi, March 23: From routine temperature predictions to chasing mighty storms, weathermen here will soon have more on their radar.
The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has drawn up elaborate plans to hone the accuracy and alacrity of weather forecast in the state, particularly in capital Ranchi.
The upgrade programme envisages a Rs 13-crore Doppler radar set-up at the local meteorolo
