<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Srikanta Samanta Vs State of West Bengal dated 13/11/2024.</p> <p>The matter related to a dumping ground located
While municipal councils have foiled several attempts of the High Court to get them to attend to the garbage problem in their respective jurisdictions in the last two years, the High Court on Wednesday contemplated imposing fine on defaulting civic bodies would work as deterrent.
The proposed garbage depot on 57 acres of forest land at Punawale, which is facing severe opposition from all quarters, has put the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) in a tight spot. As political parties are up in arms against the depot coming up near the Mumbai-Pune highway, there are a list of 14 conditions whose compliance is being sought by the forest department.
As the capital's streets get littered with garbage due to failure of Kathmandu Metropolitan City's (KMC) efforts to dump it, doctors on Monday warned this could result in outbreak of various diseases among residents of the capital. With the arrival of monsoon, street corners heaped with garbage pose health hazard, said Dr Laxmi Bahadur Thapa, Director of Epidemiology and Disease Control Division.
Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) Tuesday decided to dump the garbage collected from the capital at Sundarighat in Kirtipur after the obstruction of the local residents of Okharpouwa landfill site. According to KMC's Chief Executive Officer, Dinesh Thapaliya, a decision on the garbage management at Sundarighat will be taken by this evening and the garbage will be collected from tomorrow. KMC informed that Sundarighat can be used as landfill for another three years.
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has failed to curb the practice of dumping garbage in open drains by slum dwellers. With monsoon fast approaching, clogged drains are sure to create havoc once it starts raining. Officials fear that unless the slum dwellers stop dumping garbage, the city may witness severe flooding in several areas. After a lot of hue and cry, the civic body has now decided to supply tricycles in every slum where the major drains are situated for door-to-door collection of garbage.
Kathmandu appears all set to reel under the perennial garbage problem for some time more as the Sisdole locals near the Okharpauwa Landfill Site in Nuwakot continue to obstruct garbage trucks of the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) from dumping the city's wastage there. Due to the obstruction from last Friday, heaps of garbage has started to literally cover the pavements, causing serious eyesore to the city's residents and possible health hazards. Kathmanduites are already thronging to the hospital with diarrhea, jaundice, typhoid and other complaints.
Residents of Okharpauwa in Nuwakot district Sunday obstructed dumping of garbage at the landfill site in the west-north of the capital. The locals picketed around 18 trucks heading from the capital carrying waste at Kauti VDC, Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) said. KMC began to pick up the wastes--accumulated for the last one week--from today after the heaps of garbage started to give off awful smell in the city. KMC Chief Dinesh Thapaliya said that the garbage dumping was obstructed by different people with various demands.
Puducherry: N Anand, fondly called "Bussy' Anand, is a busy man. A firsttime MLA, he was elected from the Bussy assembly constituency in the Union territory in 2006 and hence the prefix. And when the 44-year-old legislator of Puducherry Munnetra Congress is not pushing for schemes, meeting voters or discussing local politics over a cuppa, he's clearing garbage, cleaning clogged drains and spraying mosquito repellent across the town. And he does this with his own money, spending Rs 75,000 to Rs 85,000 every month from his earnings.
If the avowed objective of the proposal to cap the Sonsodo garbage dumpyard with tarpaulin was to arrest seepage of rain water into the waste, tonnes of waste continues to be exposed to rains at the site till date. For, the Margao Civic body is still in the process of opening up the tender and issuing work orders to cap the waste with tarpaulin sheets, notwithstanding that the 35,000 tonnes of waste is already soaked with rain water. It is learnt that the delay was caused due to lack of interest shown by JCB machine operators by staying away from the tender.
Even the most ardent proponents of industrialism would acknowledge that we are in the midst of an environment crisis. Rates of species extinction are 1,000 times more than what they were before human beings dominated the earth. The rate of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere today is 30 times more than when the Industrial Revolution started. Urban India is slowly waking up to this inconvenient truth.
