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Call to solve Siliguri pollution problems
Concerned about the rising pollution levels in Siliguri, a voluntary organisation on Tuesday sought measures to be taken against the same. Members of the Green Forum also demanded that authorities concerned
Concerned about the rising pollution levels in Siliguri, a voluntary organisation on Tuesday sought measures to be taken against the same. Members of the Green Forum also demanded that authorities concerned
DURGAPUR, July 24: Following the murder of their two party men in Laudoha on Tuesday, the CPI-M is now mounting pressure on the district police on stop illegal coal mining in this belt. The party is seeking to put an end to the illegal coal smuggling, which has remained a recurring menace in this coal and industrial hub for more than a decade.
GALSI (Burdwan), July 24: Indiscriminate felling of trees along the Damodar riverbank has caused extensive erosion in certain villages in Galsi block in Burdwan in the last week. More than a thousand bighas of cultivable land have been washed away and hundreds of houses along the riverbank are under severe threat of being wiped out. However, the divisional forest authority has made it clear that no permission for tree felling was granted to any individual or a group in the area.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chairman, Mr Rajendra K Pachauri, will be visiting the city in the first week of August this year to discuss issues relating to global climate change, chief minister Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said today. Speaking at a function organised by the West Bengal Pollution Control Board, he said: "The topic (of climate change) is no more an issue for discussion by scientists only.
To help clear the city's air of pollution, especially on account of emissions from auto-rickshaws, the state government has mooted a proposal for the replacement of all diesel-run auto-rickshaws. The proposal at present is still being discussed. Auto rickshaws, if the proposal materialises at all, will henceforth run either on compressed natural gas (CNG) or liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).
The chairman of the state pollution control board (PCB), Mr AN Basu today complained to the chief minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, about state government-run hospitals not following norms required for the discharge and disposal of medical wastes. Speaking at a programme organised by the PCB to celebrate the World Environment Day, Mr Basu said: "We have set up common medical waste treatment facilities but I have to tell the chief minister that some of the state government hospitals are not adhering to these disposal norms.'
Kolkata's public transport has to move to CNG
The Real Issues Are Far From Settled The G8 Summit in Japan of a few days ago was overtaken in India by the political crisis that has shaken the UPA government and continues to rumble on towards a climax. But at Toyako in Japan's northern island of Hokkaido, the site of the summit, India's politics were peripheral and the talk was of other matters, being dominated by concerns about global warming and spreading food shortages, among other intractable issues.
Here is some good news for the flood victims. They need not consume polluted water as they used to for days together when their drinking water sources remained submerged in floods.
Potato merchants want the state to reimburse the cost of cold storage preservation of potato bags through subsidy. The state this year recorded 25 percent additional yield of potato raising the total production to 85 lakh metric ton. The 104 cold-storages operating across the state have managed to keep 2.42 crore potato packets which according to the potato merchants was 60 lakh more packets compared to last years' preservation.
Though virus-borne diseases like dengue and chikungunya had plagued the city over the past few years, Kolkata Municipal Corporation, it seems, is yet to learn from its previous failures. This was evident when it came to light that the KMC is yet to start a proper surveillance on diseases like dengue and chikungunya though viral fever has already gripped the city.