The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) will soon set up an Environment Cell to look into solid waste management, cutting down of tress and forest conservation within the Palike limits and establish 198 ''BBMP One'' centres in as many wards.

Palike Commissioner, Bharath Lal Meena said officials from the forest department will be associated with the Cell.

Rs 1,448-cr plan for flood prevention to be implemented.
Chennai, June 29 The Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (CMWSSB) will implement a Rs 2,032-crore scheme to upgrade water supply and sewage disposal in Chennai and its suburbs.

PATHANAMTHITTA: The 600-odd families of Kandamkeri at Chumathra are up in arms against the proposal to set up a waste treatment plant there by the Tiruvalla municipality.

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.

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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.