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Pune To mark the World Environment Day on Friday, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) will undertake a tree plantation drive and distribute saplings in different part of the city. The civic body has urged citizens, students and social organisations to participate in the drive.
Pune The revenue department officials of the collectorate have been assessing five sites in the city, which can be used for solid waste management, and thus ease pressure off the present garbage dump at Urali Devachi. It may be recalled that Collector Chandrakant Dalvi has assured the villagers of Urali Devachi that an alternative site would be made available in seven months time.
Mumbai: Irrigation and agriculture are the largest beneficiaries in the Maharashtra budget for 2009-2010 presented on Thursday. From the Plan outlay of Rs. 37,915 crore, Rs. 7,587 crore has been proposed for irrigation projects. With this allocation, there would be no financial backlog in the irrigation sector, said Finance Minister Dilip Walse Patil, who presented the budget.
Pune With efforts to reduce traffic congestion coming a cropper, a core mobility plan is on cards in the new development plan of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to decongest roads in the central parts of the city.
Pune After Pune Municipal Corporation's (PMC) decision to provide organic waste to villages around the city located up to 10 km, the standing committee on Tuesday decided to extend the limits up to 75 km.
MUMBAI: Environmentalists are up in arms after the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) recently converted a pathway into a six-kilometre tarred road that cuts through 102 hectares of mangroves along Thane Creek. Greens fear that the pucca road will encourage trespassing into the mangrove zone and encroachment by builders.
Pune The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has issued notices to the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to come up with multiple sites to address the issue of garbage dumping in Uruli Devachi and Phursungi villages. However, the PMC is yet to discuss the issue with the district collector.
Mumbai To tackle the issue of global warming, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation will soon begin a baseline survey in 11 sectors that produce greenhouse gas. The effort of the civic administration is to tackle efficiently the global warming issues in the city and earn carbon credits in the bargain.
MUMBAI: Even as residents of the central suburbs are bracing themselves for the four-day water cut that begins on Tuesday, Kurla residents have already been facing a similar problem since the past week. The BMC had undertaken repairs of the wall of a 12-inch booster main pipeline because of which the supply was cut for more than four days.
Pune The Pune Municipal Corporation has come out with suggestions to push forward the state government bid to amend the Maharashtra (Urban Areas) Protection and Preservation of Trees Act, 1975. The amendment is to formulate a statewide policy on maintaining heritage trees and wildlife.
Mumbai Monsoon storms, besides bringing rain to the city, are often accompanied by winds strong enough to uproot trees. In order to minimise cases of trees getting uprooted this year, the Tree Authority had in April issued a notice to the BMC ward offices asking them to build a 2-foot tree basin, around every tree, and fill it with soil.
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The present study consist the absorption, accumulation and partitioning of eight metals in order to find out the phytoremediation potential of the mangrove species Rhizophora mucronata (Lam.) in Alibag, Maharashtra, India.
MUMBAI: This monsoon, Mumbaikars might get early warnings of heavy-rain days or passing cyclones, with the meteorological bureau networking with HAM operators in the city. "Whenever disasters have struck in the past, communication has been one of the major casualties,'' said Sudhir Shah, a HAM operator.
Mumbai The current hot and sultry weather of Mumbai is here to stay, at least for a while, with no monsoon activity at sight on the western coast, the India Meteorology Department (IMD) said on Sunday. The maximum temperature in Mumbai hovered around 35.5
Cities in Maharashtra have been publishing Environmental Status Report (ESR) for last 12 years. These ESRs discuss the state of various natural resources and urban services and the environmental issues faced by respective cities. In order that the ESRs emerge as a more comprehensive document and play a
Cities in Maharashtra have been publishing Environmental Status Report (ESR) for last 12 years. This report concludes with strategies on how to strengthen the quality and use of ESRs for action planning and provides guidance on how to prepare ESRs as well as way ahead.
The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of globalisation and its discontents at a macro level in terms of weakening of the sovereign nation-state, deregulation, liberalisation, privatisation and marketisation.
Maharashtra is the first state in India to formulate a women policy in 1994, which was subsequently revised in 2001. This policy provides for participation, protection, economic development, capacity building and creation of a supportive environment for women.