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Water Bodies in NCR: Neglected & Dying

Above: The NGT committee wants anyone destroying water bodies to be punished An NGT panel has suggested that water bodies be given a Unique Identification Number after tracking them through the Glo...

A No-Plastic Future

Above:  Around 40 percent of India’s plastic waste ends up in landfills, or gets dumped or burnt/Photo: UNI The centre has announced its plans to phase out disposable plastic by 2022 but the curren...

Water Bodies in NCR: Neglected & Dying

Above: The NGT committee wants anyone destroying water bodies to be punished An NGT panel has suggested that water bodies be given a Unique Identification Number after tracking them through the Glo...

Flood Prone States Need To Learnt Their Lessons from Past Experience

Above: Flood water of Sarvari river may prove disastrous to migrant workers in Kullu district, who are living in sheds alongside the banks of Sarvari river/Photo: UNI By Papia Samajdar Barely a...

Monitoring Committees: Apathy Rules the Roost

Above: The Hindon, one of UP’s most polluted rivers/Photo: Anil Shakya In a shocking case of an unresponsive government, UP has wound up river and solid waste monitoring panels appointed by the NGT...

Air Pollution: Time Running Out

Above: A grey haze over a busy road/Photo: UNI Despite Delhi falling in the “severe” to “poor” category for more than 300 days a year, civic authorities are lax in taking corrective steps By Pap...

Uttarakhand’s Tax: Seeing Red over Green Tax

Above: The Gupta weddings in Auli had left over 220 quintals of waste and garbage to be cleared/twitter.com/ANI Though the Uttarakhand government proposes to impose a levy on pilgrims, sports lover...

Such A Waste

Above: There have been attempts to find an alternative dumping site on the bank of the Yamuna but environmentalists have opposed it/Photo: UNI Municipal authorities in Delhi need to think out of th...

Pollution Norms: Cause and No-effect

Above: The CPCB fined the DDA for illegal waste dumping in Bawana and other places/Photo: knocksense.com The Delhi High Court’s restraining order on the CPCB regarding taking coercive action to rea...

Drowning in Plastic

Above: The factsheet on plastic waste generated in India is terrifying and nothing is being done/Photo: UNI That many states do not take it seriously the plastic pollution is evident from the fact ...

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