The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) that had taken up the task of cleaning the Mumbai shoreline following the oil spill caused by the collision of MSC Chitra and MV Khalijia 3 in August last year, said on Monday that it had completed the process of bioremediation along the Navy Nagar Coast, with 90 per cent success.
The New Delhi-based institute was appointed to carry out partial clean-up
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday called for a coordinated global action to deal with the challenge of climate change and stressed the proper enforcement of regulatory standards to prevent green damage.
Contaminated and polluted water kills more than 2.2 million people per year which experts point out is more than the number of people killed from all forms of violence, including wars. The situation is especially dangerous in India where 80 per cent of all urban water is being discharged daily into the country’s rivers making most water bodies unfit for human use.
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) is charting out the Assam action plan for climate change which will prepare a road map to help the state address the problem.
This was announced by Fellow, TERI, Prabir Sengupta, at a conference on North East and Response to Climate Change
Guwahati: Noted experts participating in a workshop on climate change here pn Monday said any action plan to mitigate impact of climate change will not succeed unless there is overwhelming people
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir government has sought from the Centre Rs 5,851 crore as assistance for implementing reforms programme in power sector and improving distribution and transmission system in the state.
