Durgapur has been chosen as the best city in the country in managing solid waste. The Durgapur Municipal Corporation received the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) Excellence award in the

Construction and demolition waste will now be used for the construction of roads and pavements in the Capital.

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has developed a construction and demolition waste processing plant at Burari in north Delhi, by way of which the processed waste would be used for road works.

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Special Correspondent

TIRUCHI: Mobilising community support was essential for the success of solid and liquid waste management programmes, observed speakers at a dissemination workshop on decentralised solid and liquid waste management here on Thursday.

Haryana Minister of State for Environment and Forests Kiran Choudhry on Wednesday directed the officers of the Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) to prepare a list of all plastic bag manufacturers and take steps to completely ban the use of plastic bags in the State.

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Goa Foundation has once again threatened to walk out of Sonsodo dumping yard, with the much-promised government funds of Rs 4.6 crore to set up a landfill site at the dumping site yet to come in.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation will dig deep into its pockets to ensure clean and pristine beaches in the western suburban regions of the city. It has decided to spend Rs30,500 per day on the clean-up of three major beaches of Versova, Madh-Marve and Gorai-Manori, all of which are inland tourist attractions.

The BMC is pulling out all the stops to ensure that beaches in the city are clean.

The civic body will spend a little more than Rs 7 crore over the next five years to spruce up three major beaches