Shimla: The National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) has submitted an action plan to the state pollution control board for carrying out various protection works and stabilisation of muck dumping sites for restoring the damage caused to environment.

M K Sunil Kumar

KOCHI: The city will start to stink soon if the row between the Kochi Corporation and the Andhra Pradesh Technical Development Corporation carries on. The Corporation authorities have not taken any steps to take over the Brahmapuram plant which is the only solution for the city

Mumbai City's hope of getting a landfill site to accommodate the 6,000 tonnes garbage it disposes each day seems to be fast diminishing with environmentalists opposing the BMC

Syed Muthahar Saqaf and M. Balaganessin

Residents of many colonies have to bear stink every day

K. Kesavan: Society

Subhash Chandra N S, Bangalore:
Residents of NGEF Layout, Sanjaynagar have been fighting a battle in vain against Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagar Palike (BBMP), which has reportedly turned a blind eye against an illegal garbage dumping site in the locality.

No relief seems to be in sight for the residents, who have been running from pillar to post for the last several months.

LUCKNOW: A clean Gomti, one of the important poll planks of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in the general elections, has once again been battered to the background as tons of municipal solid waste gets dumped on the flood plain area of the river. The dumping, officials said, was being done to level up a section of land proposed to be converted into a park near Gandhi Setu close to Ambedkar Udyan.

Jammu: As the entire world celebrated the World Earth Day today to stress upon the conservation of Mother Nature, the apathetic attitude of the state government towards preserving the water bodies has converted the Tawi River into a garbage dumping ground.

An eyesore: Garbage dumped on private land along Veppanahalli-Theerthamalai main road.

Pune From Satara and Pimpri-Chinchwad to Taloja near Thane, at least 1,200 kg of bio-medical waste from Pune is transported every day for over 140 km for disposal. Ever since the disposal facility at Kailash crematorium in the city was shut down following a blast at the site, Pune

Stinking heaps remain on the streets for several days

Unhygienic conditions: Garbage on Karungalpatti Main Road in Salem.

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