Pune The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation has taken a big leap in garbage management in town by putting bin clearance online to enable citizens to keep track of waste disposal in their neighbourhood. The website updates status of garbage bins and containers every five minutes.

Two of the city corporations in Karnataka have bagged the first and second positions in solid waste management at the national level.

Addressing presspersons here on Monday, Mr Shankar Bhat, Mangalore Mayor, said that the Mangalore City Corporation (MCC) has secured the second position in solid waste management in the country.

IN ONE section of the university building where I teach, there is an enormous and motley collection of discarded computer-related items, stacked and piled in an unwieldy mess.

Mumbai The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority, which is working towards setting up a dedicated electronic waste processing unit in the metropolitan region, is now planning to include Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation in the project.

Efficient solid waste management is critical because it concerns public health, hygiene and sanitation of every citizen. Honour of the city is also involved. Talking of `global city' with waterways turned into sewages and streets littered and stinking is the worst form of hypocrisy, says M G Devasahayam

Ahmedabad-based waste management expert, P U Asnani on Sunday came down to Goa at the invitation of Chief Minister, Digambar Kamat to help the government to evaluate the technical bids received to set up the 50-ton garbage treatment plant at Sonsodo.