Bharat Yagnik | TNN

Ahmedabad: The new campus of IITGandhinagar (IIT-G) is going to have a green footprint. Authorities of the institute have decided to make the building design different than the conventional style of the other, older IITs. IIT-Gandhinagar is among the new IITs set up in 2008-09.

A final decision on extending the deadline for installation of rainwater harvesting structures in the City buildings is expected in the Cabinet meeting scheduled for Tuesday.

The amendment to Section 72A of the BWSSB Act in August 2009 mandates installation of RWH structures in all new buildings with a sital area of 1,200 sq ft (30X40 ft) and existing buildings of 2,400 sq ft (40X60 by May 27,

The steering committee of the state government on Monday took the desalination plant proposal for Mumbai forward by setting 2013 as the deadline for the first phase.

The government plans to set up two plants of 100 mld each at south Mumbai and the suburbs to tackle the city

Pune Mayor Mohansingh Rajpal has
said that builders should play a more pro-active role in developing facilities
for recycling of water, rainwater harvesting, sewage treatment as this will
help reduce the load on Pune Municipal Corporation.

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) has initiated the second phase of its waste management project after recently signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the state government on assessing the vulnerability of the state to climate change. For the second phase, TERI plans to involve students, teachers and the larger school community in the city.

The Kundalika, Amba and Vashishti rivers near Mumbai are polluted with a high content of organochlorines and other persistent organic pollutants, as per the pre-monsoon tests undertaken by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) on the rivers. The contamination is a result of industries letting out their untreated water into the rivers.

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