New Delhi: The river Ganga may soon get a much-needed clean-up act at the section where it crosses the pilgrimage city of Varanasi, with a little help from the Centre and the Uttar Pradesh state government.

TUTICORIN: A group of residents from wards 20, 34 and 35 submitted petition to Collector G. Prakash on Monday seeking his intervention to shift the sewage treatment plant reportedly being established amidst the residential area as part of the ongoing underground drainage project undertaken by the corporation.

Its proximity to the Capital might have actually caused more damage to Ghaziabad than good. While it was busy dealing with its own pollution mess, a large part of Delhi

The answer to pollution in the Yamuna lies in rethinking the subsidy on water use and building capacity for drainage

Rajesh B. Nair

A sewage treatment plant is being planned on the southern side bund of Kanakaneri at Thattanchavady in Puducherry.

PUDUCHERRY: The Kanakaneri, one of the oldest waterbodies in the town, is once again in the news. Environmental activists have come out against the government's decision to establish a sewage treatment plant on Kanakaneri under the Comprehensive Sewerage Scheme.

Civic amenities:Collector C. Munianathan, second from left, inspecting the work which is under way for a sewage treatment plant at Keechankuppam in Nagapattinam.

NAGAPATTINAM: Over six sewage treatment plants are being conceived for tsunami houses here in Nagapattinam.

Rakesh Lohumi
Acting swiftly on the complaints of local villagers, the state pollution control board today issued a show-cause notice to the Wildflower Hall hotel of the Oberoi chain on the outskirts of the city for flouting environmental norms and contaminating natural water sources by discharging partially treated sewage effluent into a nearby nullah.

Will the various government agencies at least now put their act together and get down to the serious business of putting an end to environment degradation with the Goa State Pollution Control Board compiling a damning report on the state of affairs in Colva?

Paving way for what is being seen as a ong-term solution to the pollution in the Yamuna iver due to untreated sewage disposal, the Union Cabinet Committee on nfrastructure on Wednesday cleared the pro ect for laying interceptor sewer along the three main drains of the city Najafgarh, Supplementary (running almost parallel to Najafgarh drain) and the Shahdara drain.