<p>Compliance report by the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) in Original Application No 248 of 2023 (Varun Gulati Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others).</p> <p>The report was in response
The ministry of environment has come out with a six-year project to improve the quality of the Naktong River's water, according to a newspaper report. The river is a source of drinking water for
The United Nations (un) has asked for immediate steps for cleaning the River Danube of wastes gene rated by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (nato) bombing. Water from the Danube is
For Harish Chandra, who retired as professor from the Maharishi Dayanand University in the town of Rohtak, Haryana, things have changed a lot since the dayshe used to travel by horse-driven tongas to
"Out of order," Sanjiv Lakhanpal tells one of his regular customers, as hefiddles with some parts of the photocopier in his shop. The 34-year-old earns his livelihood from a public call office near
If you go out in the city wearing a white shirt, after a couple of hours you willwonder if the black shirt you are wearing is really yours," says S K Katiar, chiefphysician, M L Chest Hospital,
One of the most densely populated areas in India, the union territory of Pondicherry has 1,642 persons per sq km. Its air is also one of the densest in the country (see box: Unclean air). In 1997,
"Kota is fast becoming like Delhi in matters of pollution. What we have here is an exploding situation," says Nishith Arora, a dentist living in Kota. The story of airpollution in the Rajasthan city
"In Jammu, 90 per cent of air pollution is vehicular," says A B Jandiyal, environmental engineer with the Jammu and Kashmir Pollution Control Board (j&kpcb). A cpcb report has already branded Jammu
"In Jaipur city, there are no major air polluting industrial units. Most are small-scale textile units and cause water pollution, not air pollution. The main culprit of air pollution is vehicles,"
For the Centre • Improve air quality monitoring; • Identify 'hot spot' cities for special attention; • Create a national-level authority with accountable state bodies. These
