New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) Vowing to clean the Yamuna River, Lieutenant Governor T.S. Sandhu on Friday identified sustainability, inclusion, culture, innovation, economic growth and compassion as the five essential pillars of Delhi’s future development. Speaking at a felicitation programme organised at JNU’s School of International Studies (SIS), of which he is an alumnus, the Lieutenant Governor underlined that governance should be responsive, accessible and humane.Sandhu identified air pollut…
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New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) The National Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases (NITRD) in Delhi has been officially recognised as Zero Waste to Landfill becoming a benchmark for responsible and environmentally conscious waste management in India’s healthcare sector, the government said on Wednesday.The achievement came after a campus‑wide waste management overhaul, executed by the Why Waste Wednesdays Foundation under its Swachh Sankalp programme.The initiative proved structured …
New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) India has the potential to unlock about $9.4 billion (nearly Rs 78,500 crore) in value from its textile waste annually by strengthening collection, sorting and recycling systems, a new report showed on Tuesday.The joint report by FICCI and the Resource Efficiency and Circular Economy Industry Coalition (RECEIC) said India generates around 7.25 million tonnes of textile waste annually, but a significant share remains underutilised due to fragmented collection systems, l…
Chennai, April 11 (IANS) Tamil Nadu’s electoral process is undergoing a quiet but significant transformation, with digital technologies sharply reducing the dependence on paper during elections. Officials say the integration of mobile application-based systems has streamlined operations while making the process more environmentally sustainable.Fresh data from the Election Commission highlights the scale of this shift. The use of A4 sheets, once a staple of polling documentation, has witnessed …
Chandigarh, April 9 (IANS) Haryana Chief Secretary Anurag Rastogi on Thursday reviewed the state’s progress in complying with the directions of the National Green Tribunal (NGT). Chairing the meeting, the Chief Secretary stressed the importance of continuous monitoring, accurate reporting, and coordinated action across departments to ensure timely compliance with NGT directives. He reiterated that Haryana is committed to achieving full compliance through a structured, results-oriented a…
Lucknow, April 1 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will flag off 250 electric and CNG vehicles on Wednesday for the Lucknow Municipal Corporation, marking a major step towards 100 per cent waste collection in 110 wards and a sustainable city model, officials said.This initiative is aimed at making the waste management system in the capital city of Lucknow more robust, modern, and eco-friendly, the officials added. In a post on X, CM Yogi said, “Under the successful guidance of …
New Delhi, March 30 (IANS) Delhi Lieutenant Governor, Taranjit Singh Sandhu, on Monday visited the Bhalswa landfill site to review the progress of ongoing bioremediation efforts and assess measures being taken to manage legacy waste as well as fresh garbage inflow at the site.During the visit, the Lt Governor noted that while considerable progress has been achieved over the past year in the remediation of solid waste at the Bhalswa landfill, Ghazipur and Okhla sites, sustained and accelerated ef…
Thiruvananthapuram, March 7 (IANS) A political row has erupted over waste management in the aftermath of the Attukal Pongala, with Education Minister V. Sivankutty on Saturday asserting that the state government would step in wherever necessary, even as the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation faces criticism over the slow pace of post-festival cleaning. It was on Tuesday the famed pongala festival attached to the Attukal Temple in the state capital city took place where an estimated four million wome…
New Delhi, March 5 (IANS) The Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav, and his Finnish counterpart Sari Multala on Thursday renewed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on environmental cooperation between India and Finland at a meeting held in the national capital. In a post on social media platform X, Yadav said he was happy to note that India had renewed the MoU signed in 2020, deepening cooperation on pollution prevention and control, waste management, clima…
New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, on Friday, launched a sharp attack on the functioning of previous governments as her government completed one year in office. She said that the present BJP administration is not a government of promises and announcements, but of measurable outcomes. She added that whether it was the 15-year rule of the Congress or the 11-year tenure of the Aam Aadmi Party, the emphasis had been on publicity and poster-driven politics.”In contrast, my gov…