Central Pollution Control Board
The railways has warned that garbage accumulation at a rail switch poses serious threat to train, with the potential to derail trains. With express trains sometimes changing tracks at high speed, there is the possibility of plastic waste jamming a switch and sending a train hurtling off the tracks, railways officials said. Garbage at switch [...] Continue Reading »
Residents of apartments in Gurgaon are having sleepless days as they are getting disturbed by the high sound of the approching metro trains in their areas. To take action against residents’ demands, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has started putting noise barriers wherever needed to reduce the screeching sound and disturbance at the turning near [...] Continue Reading »
The denizens in Delhi upheld a pollution free Diwali. All this initiative was taken over by the “Dil se Diwali campaign” planned by the Delhi government, the campaign voiced out the ill effects of burning crackers. However the sound pollution was traced to be increased in comparison to previous year. A senior scientist Saha reported [...] Continue Reading »
Days are faded where denizen used normal lighting bulbs, now its the era of compact fluorescent lamp (CFL). India consumes a few hundred million Energy-efficient compact fluorescent lamps and these are planned to be pushed for recycling as the usage of them in India is increasing rapidly. Central Pollution Control Board has witnessed that every [...] Continue Reading »
Its almost an year since the Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) had planned to install equipments to gouge the pollution levels in the air of Gurgaon, however the project is still in stalls. The plan was proposed on December 2010 to check ambient air quality. The programme will come under the Central Pollution Control [...] Continue Reading »
