Varanasi (T)

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding Tent City project in the riverbed of Ganga at Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, 15/12/2023

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Tushar Goswami Vs Union of India & Others dated 15/12/2023.

Judgement Date:

15/12/2023

Tags:

Ganga, Varanasi (T), Uttar Pradesh, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Water Pollution

Water Pollution

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding discharge of domestic waste water and untreated industrial waste water into river Ganga at Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, 28/08/2023

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Rajendra Prasad Gupta Vs State of Uttar Pradesh dated 28/08/2023.

In the petition, the complaint is regarding discharge of domestic waste water and untreated industrial waste water into river Ganga at Varanasi. The Tribunal by order May 24, 2022 had constituted a joint committee with the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board as nodal agency with a direction to submit the report.

Judgement Date:

28/08/2023

Tags:

Ganga, River Pollution, Waste Disposal, Sewage Treatment Plants (STP), Varanasi (T), Uttar Pradesh, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)

Air Pollution

Varanasi's Air Quality Deteriorating, Delhi Victim Of Negligence: Report

Varanasi, from where PM Modi had won in 2014, is witnessing a rise in the number of people suffering from allergies and respiratory problems due to a "lot" of construction in the city, the report s

Publication Date:

11/04/2019

Source: NDTV

Tags:

Uttar Pradesh, Varanasi (T), Air Pollution, WHO, Air Quality Index (AQI)

Air Pollution

Tackling pollution woes: Niti proposes 15-point action plan 'Breathe India'

The action plan also includes expediting strategic decommissioning of old and inefficient power plants and implementation of a large-scale feebate programme from 2020 onwards

Publication Date:

12/07/2018

Source: Business Standard (New Delhi)

Tags:

Delhi, Air Pollution, Kanpur (T), Varanasi (T), Air Pollution Control, Vehicular Pollution, Electric Vehicles

Water Pollution

Gomti river in Lucknow more polluted than Ganga in Varanasi: CAG report

The CAG report which studied the pollution levels in Lucknow and Varanasi from 2011 to 2015 has revealed that the Gomti river is more polluted than the Ganga.

Publication Date:

24/05/2017

Source: Daily News Analysis (Delhi)

Tags:

Uttar Pradesh, Gomti, Lucknow (T), River Pollution, Ganga, Varanasi (T), Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), Water Pollution, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)

Air Pollution

Lucknow more polluted than Kashi: CAG

Gomti is more polluted than Ganga, reveals the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) report that was tabled in Vidhan Sabha on Thursday.

Publication Date:

19/05/2017

Source: Times of India (Lucknow)

Tags:

Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow (T), Air Pollution, Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), Varanasi (T), Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)

Air Pollution

The Indian cities with the poorest air quality

Delhi, Faridabad and Varanasi have the poorest air quality among the 32 Indian cities which are connected to the web-based system National Air Quality Index Portal.

Publication Date:

24/11/2016

Author(s): Samarth Bansal

Source: Hindu (New Delhi)

Tags:

Air Pollution, Delhi, Faridabad (T), Varanasi (T), Air Quality Index (AQI), PM 2.5, RSPM (PM 10), WHO, Health Effects, Health

Air Pollution

Air quality deteriorates, 202 point rise in pollution

Varanasi: The city's air quality deteriorated sharply on Wednesday with maintaining hazardous trend for the third consecutive day with a 202-point rise in pollution levels within 24 hours.

Publication Date:

10/11/2016

Source: Times Of India (Varanasi)

Tags:

Uttar Pradesh, Varanasi (T), Air Pollution, Air Quality Index (AQI), Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Indian Meteorological Department (IMD)

Habitat And Urbanisation

Varanasi, Madurai on latest list of Smart Cities

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi has made its way to the list of 27 new smart cities announced by the Urban Development Ministry on Tuesday.

Publication Date:

21/09/2016

Source: Hindu (New Delhi)

Tags:

Uttar Pradesh, Varanasi (T), Smart City, Agra (T), Kanpur (T), Ministry Of Urban Development, Habitat And Urbanisation

Water Pollution

Dirty flows the Ganga - Why plans to clean the river have come a cropper

One of the first announcements of Prime Minister Narendra Modi pertained to cleaning the Ganga. But this is not the first time an attempt has been made to clean the river. River cleaning schemes initiated in 1974, 1985, 1993, 1996 and 2008-09 have been monumental failures. While the Prime Minister's announcement was followed by a lot of rhetoric and initial moves towards the goal were frantic, two years later, there has been little improvement in the state-of-affairs.

Publication Date:

18/06/2016

Author(s): Raghu Dayal

Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Vol:

51

Issue:

25

pp:

55-64

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