The National Green Tribunal observed that the waste rotting at Bhalswa, Ghazipur and Okhla landfill sites is contaminating the groundwater with heavy metals which is reaching and polluting the Yamuna river ...
More
Delhi
Delhi
In a bid to reduce pollution in the Yamuna river, the National Green Tribunal said that officials from Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana should make efforts to stop immersion of idols in the Yamuna river as part of religious ceremonies ...
More
India’s waste woes continue unabated despite five years of the biggest clean-up campaign, Swachh Bharat Abiyan. Here’s a glimpse of the next big challenge from a slum in capital’s posh South Delhi area ...
More
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal has assured that every sanitation worker in Delhi will be provided with safety gears for cleaning sewers ...
More
More than 100 newspaper hawkers of the city took it upon themselves to be the change that they want to see and led a clean-up drive on the banks of river Yamuna ...
More
In a letter to Delhi chief secretary Vijay Dev, National Commission for Safai Karamcharis (sanitation workers) asked for the reason behind deaths due to manual scavenging in the national capital, despite the purchase of 200 sewer cleaning machines ...
More
Students taking admission in any of the 9 Delhi University (DU) colleges and Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU) Colleges/Institutes run by Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee will have to plant 10 trees ...
More
The Social Justice Minister Rajendra Pal Gautam has announced that he would be meeting engineers from the IT company, Genrobotics, for a "live demo of the sewer cleaning robots," in a bid to end manual scavenging ...
More
The New Delhi Municipal Council has installed 40 sensor based underground bins to manage the waste effectively while maintaining aesthetics of the city ...
More
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) has procured five electric cars for official use ...
More
Jal Shakti Ministry had issued a memorandum last month highlighting the need for conserving water and had asked government offices to install aerators in the taps which is a device that can control the flow of water ...
More
The Delhi cabinet, chaired by the Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, approved the project for water conservation in the River Yamuna floodplains ...
More
Stay Connected