ITANAGAR, Mar 31: In response to the clarion call of Governor Gen (Retd) J J Singh for a Clean, Green and Plastic Free Arunachal, NABARD has sanctioned a pilot project on Solid Waste Management under its Rural Innovation Fund to be implemented in the state capital. The project is sanctioned to ENVIRON, a prominent NGO working in environment with its head Office at Guwahati.

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Project report to be prepared within three months

Set to change: Burning of garbage at Kilburn Nagar dumping yard is expected to reduce with the Madhavaram Municipality planning solid waste management measures.

PRASHANT PANDEY
NEW DELHI
The tourism ministry has made it clear to the states that their tourism projects would be taken up on priority basis if they came up with concrete plans for solid waste management and providing wayside amenities on the state and the national highways along the route to tourist destinations or tourist circuits.

Every movement needs a poster boy. India's quest for securing its water needs could use Rajiv Mittal. At 49, the Managing Director of VA Tech Wabag, is one of the younger water entrepreneurs who are changing the way we treat the liquid that sustains our life.

CHANDIGARH: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda announced on Friday that his regime would launch a State-wide urban infrastructure development programme called Rajiv Gandhi Urban Development Mission, Haryana.

Plan to carry out a door-to-door awareness drive in Mettupalayam

To rid of waste:Chairperson of Mettupalayam Municipality Satyavati Ganesh (second right) hands over a garbage collection bag to a resident

COIMBATORE: Wealth out of Waste, a project under which paper waste and plastic bags are bought from houses and shops, began in Mettupalayam Municipality in the district on Thursday.

KARACHI: The City District Government Karachi (CDGK) is formulating a new policy for solid waste management and Executive District Officer (EDO) Masood Alam has asked deputy town health officers of the city to furnish suggestions for this purpose.

NEW DELHI: To improve sanitation waste management in unauthorised colonies, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi has started an auto-tipper service for solid waste management in the unauthorised colonies of Nangloi and Baprolla in West Delhi.

GUWAHATI, March 11