Another risky landfill plan in Mumbai THE Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai plans to partially close down and modernize the Deonar dumping ground in the eastern suburb at a cost of Rs 5,000 crore, but environmentalists fear it may end up increasing the risks of land subsidence and pollutants leaching into the groundwater. The proposal is to slightly compact and cover

Over 1,500 cowsheds situated around Jogeshwari, Goregaon and Vasai-Virar area will now have to shift to Dapchiri in Dahanu. The Bombay High Court on Thursday directed the state government to file a detailed affidavit within a week stating its plan to shift the tabelas out of the city.

K. Manikandan

Useful option: Bottle gourds are among the vegetables grown in the kitchen garden of the Perungalathur town panchayat.

TAMBARAM: Two urban local bodies in the southern suburbs of Chennai have demonstrated the use of applying organic manure generated in their compost yards to grow vegetables in kitchen gardens maintained by them.

Karthik Madhavan

The five government hospitals coming under Bangalore Medical College are likely to start disinfection of liquid bio- medical waste at the source as done in private hospitals, according to an official in Bangalore Medical College Research Institute.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Friday decided to defer for now the awarding of contracts for their ambitious plan to convert the Deonar dumping ground partially into a green belt and the rest into a sanitary landfill site. The Rs 4,560-crore proposal had been earlier put before the standing committee for approval.

Providing a ray of hope to the residents of Gurgaon, Haryana Government has promised to build a modern solid waste-treatment plant at Bandhwari village, along the Gurgaon-Faridabad road.

With their proposal for dumping of municipal waste at Naubasta Kala running into rough weather following protests by locals, the Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) and Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) have begun the search for a new site.

It is bad news for the residents of Bhanpur that they are under the grip of death. Hundreds of truck garbage dumped by the Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) spreading various diseases in the area, compelling them to die slowly.

For society: Khadi Board Minister K. Ramachandran inaugurating a training programme on Municipal Solid Waste Management in Udhagamandalam on Friday.

Udhagamandalam: Effective management of municipal solid waste will help the society in many ways, said Khadi Board Minister K.Ramachandran here on Friday.