Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad on Thursday chaired a high-level meeting at the Governor

Shortage of dustbins forces the people in Sylhet city to dump wastes into canals, drains and road-sides, polluting environment and posing threat to public health.
Not a single dustbin has been installed in the city after Sylhet district town was upgraded into the city corporation about a decade ago, according to statistics available with the corporation.

Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad on Thursday chaired a high-level meeting at the Governor

Rainwater inundating the roads is a regular feature in Guwahati, particularly in its central parts, during the rainy season. The Guwahatians hence lay more stress on keeping the city drains clean to make them able to carry the discharge of the rainy days. But the ongoing drain cleaning exercise undertaken by the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) has been resented by most of the city residents.

As many as 380 sites have been identified throughout the state for scientific disposal of muck and construction debris in accordance with the environment protection act.

AHMEDABAD : The city's garbage dump site at Pirana is being identified by the US Environment Protection Agency (USEPA) as a potential place for tapping methane the fuel used to run captive power plants. Ahmedabad will join the league of two other cities Mumbai and Pune whose landfill sites have been identified for a similar project.

The provincial environment department has proposed an amendment to the Prohibition of Manufacture, Sale and Use of Polythene Bags Ordinance, 2006, to ban the bags altogether irrespective of their thickness, the Sindh High Court was informed on Tuesday.

The Sri Lanka Supreme Court yesterday proposed two alternative sites, one at Mahara and another belonging to the Sri Lanka Ports Authority to dump accumulated garbage in Colombo.