This paper discusses both occupational health risks to workers and environmental health risks to residents and workers. Because worker exposure times are shorter than resident exposure times, some risks may be less for workers than for residents. On the other hand, contaminant levels to which workers are exposed can be significantly higher than those that reach residents, thus leading to increased risks for workers over residents.
The objectives of the Disaster Management Plan are to ensure that disaster management is organised to facilitate planning, preparedness, operational coordination and community participation.
The main aim of this Policy is establishing principles and guidelines on various aspects of Disaster Management and making the people increasingly resilient to disaster.
Many people believe that nonmotorized modes (walking, cycling, and their variations) have an inferior right to use
public roads compared with motor vehicles. This reflects the belief that motor vehicles are more important to society
The CDP aims at developing Srinagar as major tourist city by addressing the issues of ecological preservation, economic growth, poverty, good governance, development of infrastructure, improve traffic and transportation and delivery of basic services to the urban poor through a consultative process of strategizing and visioning.
On 17 May 2005, the Government of Gujarat issued a resolution (GR) to bring wastelands under cultivation inviting big corporate houses and rich farmers – a beginning of corporate farming in a big way in the state. The GR has the provision of giving wastelands up to 2000 acres for a lease period of 20 years.
Local Area Environmental Committee was constituted by the Kerala State Pollution Control Board in compliance of the direction issued by the Supreme Court Monitoring Committee. This environment audit report was prepared by the Local Area Environmental Committee, Eloor-Edayar, Kochi, dealing with 247 industries in the Eloor/Edayar industrial belt.
