SANTOSH K. KIRO

Clean-up act
Ranchi, March 12: Kitchen waste will soon become valuable.

The civic body in the state capital would set up a plant at Bero, some 35km from here, to convert the waste generated from households into compost

JAMMU: Observing that the preservation of ecology is a fundamental challenge, Governor N.N.Vohra said that the Amarnath Shrine Board shall take a firm initiative in funding eco-awareness-cum-conservation campaigns and supplementing the afforestation programmes in selected areas.

Mumbai: Nationalist Congress Party MLC from Thane Jitendra Avhad could be penalised by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) under its cleanliness and sanitation bylaws 2006.

Ashish Shelar, BJP corporator of Mumbai, demanded that Avhad be punished as per the civic body's rule as he dumped a truckload of garbage at a public road near the BMC headquarters.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday advised the Urban Development Ministry and the Environment Ministry to get together and prepare a Combined National Policy Act and present it to Parliament on how to dispose garbage in Colombo City and suburbs.

During a meeting held at Temple Trees, the President instructed them to identify land for this purpose immediately.

SALEM: Garbage collection in a number of wards coming under the control of a private firm here remains tardy. Heaps of garbage lie on roadsides.

The Salem Corporation privatised the sanitary works in 21 wards after it faced serious problems in garbage collection and drainage cleaning because of staff shortage.

It had appointed a Bangalore-based firm to carry out the sanitary works.

TAMBARAM: Removal of encroachments from the Adambakkam Lake and preventing its further degradation, improving water supply, permission to operate share autorickshaws were among the demands that the Federation of Adambakkam Welfare Associations made at a recent interaction with Labour Welfare Minister T. M. Anbarasan.

Ahmedabad : Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) sealed five units in city on Monday after investigation reports proved that they were using biomedical waste for packaging food items and medicines. Most of them were bottling units. Sealed units include Gujarat Pharma Laboratory, Ketlik Pharma, Shri Madh traders, Gujarat Remedies and Medivate laboratories.

Emphasising the importance of preserving and maintaining the aesthetic environmental grandeur of the fragile Himalayan region during the Amarnath yatra, Governor NN Vohra today called for effective measures to ensure zero discharge of pollutants into Lidder and Sindh rivers.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The City Corporation embarked on its biggest one-day cleaning drive of the year by 3 p.m. on Tuesday, in an effort to rid the city of large volumes of waste generated during the Pongala festival.

The authorities have found a novel way to keep the city