Awareness
In 2007, the Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA) had cautioned Gurgaon that if it continuously uses groundwater at high extent, then the resource would be exhausted by 2017. But the Haryana government overlooked the warning and continued issuing licences to real estate companies which abruptly exploited the resource. According to experts, Gurgaon has been drawing [...] Continue Reading »
As a responsive measure to the depletion of groundwater at a great speed, the apex body for real estate Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Associations of India (CREDAI) has decided to adopt rain water harvesting as corporate social responsibility (CSR) this year. The announcement comes two days following the Punjab and Haryana High Court directed [...] Continue Reading »
The ambitious project taken up by the Margao Municipal Council (MMC) seeking the door-to-door collection of garbage, now seems to be in disorder with the project mostly failing to elicit assistance from the city residents. As being admitted by the civic body itself, sanitary workers have to face hostile conduct from many households and also [...] Continue Reading »
Thane District Consumer Forum has ruled that builders must stand by the conditions laid down by civic authority while granting the occupation certificate (OC), even though if such conditions are not a part of the sale agreement with flat buyers. Recently, a complaint was filed by Sarvottam Co-operative Housing Society against city-based Radhakrishna Developers. According [...] Continue Reading »
Gurgaon’s underground water table has reached a significant low of 51 metres and the state has failed to check on this. The water crisis which Gurgaon faced this summer is only going to get worse. The estimated demand is 200 million gallons per day (MGD), whereas Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) is able to supply [...] Continue Reading »
The Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) has issued a public notice asking the builders to get a Completion Certificate once they complete the projects. The certificate is important for the builders for it is a proof to the fact that the building is proper for occupancy. Sources say that many builders candidly take completion certificate. In [...] Continue Reading »
The residents of Doddanekundi are sick of the nearby polluting-factories. The members of Doddanekkundi Residents’ Welfare Association have been complaining to Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) regarding this issue for more than a decade but till now no action has been taken. Sources said Graphite India is one of the few units that have been [...] Continue Reading »
At the BBMP Budget session on Wednesday, Mayor of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, D Venkatesh Murthy, announced that all 198 corporators should take up an ‘andolan’ to ban plastic in their respective Wards. He added that whoever is successful in this campaign will be rewarded with Rs 1 lakh. Though the Palike had taken [...] Continue Reading »
Dust that flies in from the stone-crushing units in the area is the major problem faced by the residents of Sankar Nagar in suburban Pammal which is a town in the neighbourhood of Chennai. There are 53 stone-crushing units in the Sankarnagar, polluting the homes, streets and shops situated in the area. Exposure to such [...] Continue Reading »
An environmental researcher, Arshinder Pasricha, has been raising her voice against residents’ burning of leaves practice in Mohali for the past couple of months. Few of the Resident Welfare Associations have also joined her in this effort. She says that usually, the employees of the Municipal Corporation burn leaves and other related stuff. But now, [...] Continue Reading »
