Chandigarh: Local Bodies Minister Manoranjan Kalia has expressed concern that while urban local bodies spend a huge amount every year on garbage collection, transportation and disposal, the larger problem of the municipal solid waste management in a scientific manner remains unattended to.

Small and medium enterprises based at Adityapur Industrial Area (AIA) will contribute more than Rs 3 crore to develop the Adityapur Auto Cluster Limited (AACL).

Senior AACL officials said that the entrepreneurs would provide Rs 20,000 for each acre that is being used by them to develop the proposed project. The units would be paying the amount in three instalments.

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SHILLONG: Admitting that the Dorbar Shnong have failed to manage the garbage collection system in their respective localities, Synjuk Ki Rangbah Shnong (SKRS) president HP Oflyn Dohling has said that it would be futile to depend too much on the Dorbar Shnong to deal with the problem.

D. Radhakrishnan

Project expected to be completed by the end of 2010

Focus on safe disposal: A truck carrying garbage entering the municipal dump yard at Theetukkal near Udhagamandalam.

Mumbai Even as a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) highlighting Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation

A Composting unit over a drain may seem a little bit of a surprise for many. But, welcome to Borda in the jurisdiction of Margao Municipal Council where a composting unit is presently under construction on a water nullah.
While work on the composting unit has raised many an eyebrows, the Margao Municipal council has denied that work on the unit is being carried out by the Civic body.

K.V. Prasad

Drive launched in Mayor

CUTTACK: Solid waste management, one of the major civic problems of the millennium city, seems set for a huge boost with plans mooted for setting up a common facility for proper handling and treatment of the waste generated in the Twin City of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack.

JAIPUR: The Mahindra World City Jaipur is among the 16 founding projects of the Climate Positive Development Program under the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) that will support the development of large-scale urban projects that demonstrate cities can grow in ways that are