City roads will soon present a smoother ride. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will now take up works for the improvement of more than 60 roads, including major ones.

As civic body struggles with solid waste, apartment complexes may soon have to manage the waste in their own backyard, writes Kannal Achuthan

By 2015, Chennai will run out of space to dump garbage in Kodungaiyur and Perungudi yards. The need to put solid waste management systems in place is more urgent now than ever and the Chennai Corporation is looking at various alternatives.

The decision to close down the Deonar dumping ground was embroiled in an ugly debate, as members across party lines raised more than a 100 questions at the BMC

PANJIM, NOV 20
Panjim-based Goa People

The fate of the long-awaited solid waste management project hangs in the balance as the city government is considering reviewing the agreement that gave the responsibility of disposal of garbage from the city to a Chinese firm, which has not initiated even the groundwork despite the passage of over 10 months.

The fate of the long-awaited solid waste management project hangs in the balance as the city government is considering reviewing the agreement that gave the responsibility of disposal of garbage from the city to a Chinese firm, which has not initiated even the groundwork despite the passage of over 10 months.

Can a municipal corporation refuse to lift garbage even after it has been properly segregated?

MERCES, NOV 17
With the issue of garbage threatening to haunt Curca yet again, villagers resolved to oppose tooth and nail the moves by CCP to get temporary reprieve to dump garbage in the village.

The colonies of Kolar municipality are filled with garbage and filth and stray cattle can be seen 24 hours feeding on the garbage. Time and again the Municipal authorities give assurances of getting the area cleaned. In the Municipality there are 174 sanitary employees but they seldom work.

Because it sends its garbage to pollute a nearby village SINCE 1983, all the municipal garbage from the city of Pune in Maharashtra has travelled 12 km to be dumped in the village of Urali-Devachi. More than 1,000 tonnes each day. Spread across 43 hectares, the dump pollutes the area. Leachates contaminate the ground