Health
According to a report prepared by Praja Foundation, the city’s state of health is in a bad shape. Along with physical infrastructure, the city’s social infrastructure too is precarious. The report is based on a survey of 15,000 households across various wards in the city. It shows that sensitive diseases have almost doubled in the [...] Continue Reading »
Big corporates have seemed to put emphasis on making their new projects accessible, comfortable and user-friendly for the elderly and the handicapped people. Ansal Unitech, DLF, Tata Housing, SVP Developers are designing their residential, even commercial buildings imbibed with barrier-free design with easy and convenient passage to different sections of the home in order to [...] Continue Reading »
The AP State Disaster Response and Fire Services department has planned to tighten fire safety norms for the non-high-rise buildings. Hence, owners of non-high-rise buildings would have to obtain a license from the department for their property and have to pay a fee after providing fire-fighting equipment on their premises. The department will check the [...] Continue Reading »
The Bombay High Court has directed the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) to take appropriate steps to implement recommendations of National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) regarding the removal of health hazards caused by garbage dumping at a ground in Turbhe in Navi Mumbai. NEERI was appointed by the court to visit the site and [...] Continue Reading »
Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has issued a show cause notice to Vapi Waste and Effluent Management Co. Pvt. Ltd (VWEMCL) for neglecting the precautionary steps mandatory ahead of the monsoon at the common solid waste management site. Industrial sludge had spread into the fields and orchards near Vapi after a protection wall of the [...] Continue Reading »
Following the Mantralaya fire, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has planned to tighten safety norms for all residential, commercial and high-rise structures in the city. Under the new plans, The city buildings will be required to get a certified fire audit report from listed licensing authorities stating the building is well-equipped with safety systems and [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) seems to be woken up to the issue of safety and health of public. They conducted an audit of all the bakeries in the city following a cylinder explosion at an illegal bakery in Trombay which claimed lives of people. The survey has revealed that there exist 127 illegal bakeries [...] 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 »
Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) continues their crusade against garbage dumping in public places. In a recent drive staffers of Cream Corner, Ramdaspeth, Central Bazaar road were caught by the squads of health department throwing garbage on the road and were slapped a fine of Rs 10,000. Apart from Cream Corner, action was also taken against [...] Continue Reading »
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is facing residents’ agitation against the garbage disposal in the Mavallipura locality and wants Palike to shut down the garbage dump yard in the area. The villagers staged protest and prevented garbage dumping into the landfill. Mayor D. Venkatesh Murthy has agreed to visit Mavallipura on Thursday. Health risk is [...] Continue Reading »
