After days of negotiations over the draft concessions agreement between the two parties, the time has come for both Fomento and the Margao Municipal Council to ratify the draft before inking the agreement to tackle the waste problem at the Sonsodo garbage dump yard.
The draft concession agreement will be formally placed before the Board of Directors of Fomento for approval of the draft, before th

Khulna City Corporation (KCC) and Renovo Technologies Private Ltd of Singapore yesterday went into an agreement to implement a project worth Tk 112 crore for the modernisation of the city's waste m

The Ministry has initiated a waste audit in the North Province, and this trip will be from the 11th to the 16th of December.

JAMMU, Dec 14: The CII J&K State Council in collaboration with J&K State Pollution Control Board organised function on Municipal Solid Waste Management, here today.

Deputy Commissioner Sanjeev Verma was the chief guest in the inaugural session.

Naina J A, Mangalore, Dec 13, DHNS:

Mangalore is already producing 200 tonnes of waste every day

Waste being dumped on the roadside between Balmatta and Hampankatta in Mangalore will soon become a thing of the past.

Facing flak from local NGOs over the failure on the garbage front, the Colva village Panchayat has set in motion an exercise to put a garbage collection and disposal mechanism in place in the tourist village.
With the Salcete Block Development Office adopting Colva village along Salcete

Even as the draft Concession agreement to be inked between the Margao Municipal Council and Fomento is undergoing final touches, questions are raised whether it would finally cost the civic body Rs 12 crore to tackle the waste at Sonsodo for the next 25 years.
Fomento had bagged the tender for the treatment of waste and construction of land fill site for Rs 7.31 crore.

Karthik Madhavan

Litter-free:Coimbatore may soon have clean roads, as the Corporation has initiated efforts to improve waste management.

COIMBATORE: The over 90 vehicles the Coimbatore Corporation uses to transport solid waste will double their trip in a month's time.

From four trips a day a lorry, it will go up to eight.

Ambala: Union Tourism Minister and Ambala MP Kumari Selja has taken up the matter of the solid waste management project near Ambala City, that has not been working properly, with Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.

The project was set up at Patwi in 2008 with a cost of Rs 12.5 crore to dispose the garbage of Ambala City and Ambala Cantt.

KOCHI: A developing city like Kochi still does not have a proper waste management system. Though a master plan is supposed to suggest concrete measures to tackle the garbage menace, the Kochi master plan hardly addresses this grave issue. The only portion that mention about the issue in the plan reads -