9 years, 5 months ago

NGT order on waste processing: Now, it’s Chandigarh vs Shimla

Aggrieved by National Green Tribunal order of processing of solid waste from Shimla, Solan and Baddi in Chandigarh, the local municipal corporation commissioner Bhawna Garg has shot off a letter to her counterpart in Shimla Pankaj Rai, asking him not to send waste to city at least till October 13, the next date of hearing at the NGT. In the letter to her Shimla counterpart, Garg stated that they would appear before the NGT on October 13, seeking to be made a party and given opportunity to be heard; till then no garbage should be sent for processing at the Dadumajra plant in Sector 25, Chandigarh. On October 1, the NGT had issued directions that 90 tonnes of solid waste from Himachal Pradesh — Shimla, Baddi and Solan — be sent to Chandigarh for processing. RD Sharma, in-charge of the waste processing plant in Chandigarh, said, “We are in a fix as Chandigarh Municipal Corporation is pressuring us not to accept garbage from Shimla, but we have to comply with the NGT order also.

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1 week ago

Chandigarh municipal corporation plans ₹12 crore project to clear Dadumajra waste dump

Hindustan Times

The Chandigarh municipal corporation is set to hire a new private firm to process the third garbage mountain at the Dadumajra dumping ground by July 2025. The Dadumajra site saw the formation of two massive waste mountains—one containing 5 lakh metric tonnes and another with 8 LMT—due to inadequate waste processing. MC has also reiterated to the Chairman and Members, …

1 month, 1 week ago

NGT orders Tiruppur Collector to file report on waste dumping at quarry, hearing set for March 24

The Hindu

The National Green Tribunal Southern Zone has posted the next hearing on the issue of “unauthorised” waste dumping in abandoned stone quarries at Pongupalayam village by the Tiruppur City Corporation on March 24, 2025. “Dumping of waste in the abandoned quarry is not permitted”, the NGT Southern Zone said in a directive issued by Judicial Member Justice Pushpa Sathyanarayana, and …

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Chandigarh: Work to clear 3rd trash mountain at Dadumajra landfill begins

Hindustan Times

After missing repeated deadlines, Chandigarh municipal corporation has finally completed the bio-remediation of two garbage mountains dumped at Dadumajra landfill, the civic body officials said on Thursday, adding that the work has already been started to process the remaining freshly dumped waste or the third mountain, holding a massive 1.25 lakh metric tonnes of waste, at the landfill. Even the …

2 months, 2 weeks ago

Chandigarh mayor writes to Punjab governor, seeks 20 acres in Mohali for setting up integrated waste processing plant

Hindustan Times

City mayor Kuldeep Kumar Dhalor on Wednesday formally requested Punjab governor and UT administrator Gulab Chand Kataria for 20 acres in Mohali to relocate the proposed integrated solid waste management processing plant from Dadumajra. Aimed at effectively tackling the city’s daily waste generation of 550 metric tonnes, the new plant, with a capacity of 600 tonnes per day, is proposed …

2 months, 2 weeks ago

Ghaziabad: Civic body clears 31,713 metric tonnes of waste from Madhuban Bapudham site

Hindustan Times

On the directions of the National Green Tribunal, the Ghaziabad municipal corporation has cleared 31,713 metric tonnes of solid waste dumped at the sewage treatment plant site in Madhuban Bapudham site, municipal officials said on Monday. “The corporation had been dumping its solid waste adjacent to the sewage treatment plant site for the past three years, and finally we had …

3 months, 1 week ago

Dadumajra residents meet MC chief over dumping of horticulture waste in open

Hindustan Times

Municipal corporation’s claim of processing 100% of the city’s daily horticulture waste fell flat on Monday after residents of Dadumajra village protested against the dumping of unprocessed horticulture waste in an open ground, and MC proposing another plant at a cost of ₹4 crore to process the waste. People will soon start dumping mixed waste in the ground and soon, …

3 months, 1 week ago

NGT directs Kerala government to clear biomedical waste from Tamil Nadu in three days

The Hindu

The Southern Bench of the National Green Tribunal on Thursday directed the Kerala government and the Kerala State Pollution Control Board to remove in three days the biomedical and mixed solid waste dumped in villages of Tirunelveli district in Tamil Nadu. He noted that in Nanguneri, the Tamil Nadu government had taken steps to clear the waste, but despite directives …

3 months, 1 week ago

NGT directs Kerala to take back its biomedical waste dumped in Tamil Nadu within 3 days

New Indian Express

CHENNAI: The southern bench of National Green Tribunal on Thursday directed the Kerala state government and its pollution control board to remove the bio-medical waste and mixed solid waste illegally dumped at multiple points bordering Tirunelveli district within three days and file a compliance report on December 23. Dumping of hazardous biomedical waste by Kerala into Tamil Nadu area is …

3 months, 2 weeks ago

Legacy waste at Chandigarh’s Dadumajra landfill will be cleared by December-end, says Centre

Hindustan Times

The work of bioremediation of entire legacy waste, which is dumped at the Dadumajra landfill, is scheduled for completion by December this year. Meanwhile, a third mountain, holding a massive 1.25 lakh MT of waste, has emerged at the landfill as a result of unabated dumping of unsegregated and unprocessed daily waste. In response to the questions, the ministry said, …

3 months, 2 weeks ago

No end to Chandigarh’s trash trouble as third mountain rises at Dadumajra dump

Hindustan Times

The city’s garbage crisis shows no sign of abating, as a third mountain of waste, holding a massive 1.25 lakh metric tonnes of waste, has emerged at the Dadumajra landfill. Already struggling to clear the existing legacy waste at the Dadumajra landfill, Chandigarh MC will take at least 43 more months to clear the fresh heap of 1.25 lakh MT. …

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Case in NGT against dumping waste in quarries, Tiruppur corporation looks for options

New Indian Express

TIRUPPUR: Officials from the Tiruppur municipal administration department have decided to set up a Material Recovery Facility centre on the borders of Tiruppur, Coimbatore, to segregate waste as social activists have been opposing the dumping of garbage in stone quarries. Out of this 160 tonnes of waste is sent to Micro Composting Centres everyday and others are being dumped in …

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Nellore, Kakinada each to get a new Waste to Energy plant

Deccan Chronicle

Vijayawada: Andhra Pradesh government will soon set up two new waste-to-energy generation plants, one each in Nellore and Kakinada, to process solid waste generated by the two local bodies. Further, the government will clear legacy waste piled up in dumping yards all over AP in the last five years, municipal administration and urban development minister Ponguru Narayana underlined on Tuesday. …

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Chandigarh MC to start mixed waste segregation with new plant at Dadumajra dump by Nov-end

Hindustan Times

Chandigarh municipal corporation is set to segregate mixed waste into dry and wet wastes, with an automated municipal solid waste segregation plant, at the Dadumajra dumping ground by the end of this month. As per MC officials, approximately 70 TPD of mixed/unsegregated waste is being collected daily and manual segregation of this garbage is not possible. As per MC officials, …

6 months, 1 week ago

Legacy waste: SC stays NGT order directing Punjab govt to pay over Rs 1,000 crore

New Indian Express

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday stayed an order of the National Green Tribunal, which had imposed over Rs 1,000 crore as environmental compensation on Punjab for failing to manage legacy waste and untreated sewage in the state. A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra issued notice to the Centre …

7 months, 3 weeks ago

NGT imposes up to ₹50,000 fine for dumping solid waste in unauthorised areas in Uttar Pradesh

The Hindu

The National Green Tribunal has imposed a complete prohibition on littering or dumping of solid waste at unauthorised places in Uttar Pradesh and a fine ranging from ₹5,000 to ₹50,000 for its violations. “We specifically direct that there shall be complete prohibition on littering/dumping of Solid Waste at unauthorized places particularly roadsides, rivers, waterways, wetlands, lakes, nalas, panchayat or revenue …

9 months, 3 weeks ago

CHandigarh MC planning to set up plant to segregate mixed waste at Dadumajra dump

Hindustan Times

With the aim to segregate mixed waste into dry and wet before processing, the Chandigarh municipal corporation is planning to set up an automated municipal solid waste segregation plant at the Dadumajra dumping ground at a cost of ₹5.22 crore. However, with different wet and dry waste processing plants in place, MC is able to process only 430 tonnes per …

9 months, 3 weeks ago

Now, Chandigarh admn pushes deadline to clear Dadumajra landfill to December

Hindustan Times

After already failing to meet multiple deadlines, the UT administration has now pushed the deadline to clear the entire legacy waste at the Dadumajra landfill to December 31. In the status report submitted to the green tribunal, the department noted that in May, nearly 430 TDP of the total 500 TDP solid waste generated in the city was processed. The …

1 year, 5 months ago

NGT seeks report from Tamil Nadu, Kerala authorities on garbage dumping in Tirunelveli

The Hindu

The southern bench of the National Green Tribunal has directed authorities in Tamil Nadu and Kerala to file detailed reports on a recent incident of garbage being dumped in Nanguneri town in Tirunelveli. Based on a news report, the NGT has taken suo motu cognisance into ten tonnes of plastic, medical, and domestic waste from Kerala dumped at multiple locations …

1 year, 5 months ago

Chandigarh: Work starts to set up temporary wet waste plant in Dadumajra

Hindustan Times

Aiming to tackle the city’s daily wet waste, the Chandigarh municipal corporation on Monday kicked off the work to set up a temporary wet waste plant in Dadumajra. Integrated plant to process city’s waste The city generates around 550 metric tonnes of garbage daily, of which a sizeable 374 MT is wet, while the remaining is dry. In the meantime, …

1 year, 8 months ago

NGT chief directs local authorities in Mysuru to strictly implement solid waste management plan

The Hindu

The National Green Tribunal State panel chief Subhash Adi directed the local authorities in Mysuru to strictly monitor and implement the solid waste management plan and ban on plastic. The NGT panel chief was taking stock of the solid and liquid waste management and its implementation in Mysuru on Friday, July 14. On the management of Construction and Demolition waste …

1 year, 10 months ago

21% funds spent on managing solid waste: Chandigarh admn to NGT

Hindustan Times

In a status report submitted to the National Green Tribunal on Thursday, the UT administration said 21% of the allocated funds have already been spent on managing the solid waste of the city. The civic body has been dumping the garbage at a dumping ground, spread over 45 acres of land, near Dadumajra colony over the past decades, due to …

1 year, 10 months ago

NGT imposes Rs 4,000 cr fine on Bihar for failing to scientifically manage solid, liquid waste

India Today

The National Green Tribunal has levied Rs 4,000 crore environmental compensation on Bihar for failing to scientifically manage solid and liquid waste. The bench, also comprising Justice Sudhir Agarwal and Justice Arun Kumar Tyagi along with expert members Afroz Ahmad and A Senthil Vel, said, "We levy compensation of Rs 4,000 crore on the state on the polluter pays principle …

2 years ago

MCG misses another deadline, will send daily waste to Bandhwari

Hindustan Times

With even the extended deadline on March 31, for stopping daily waste dumping at Bandhwari landfill ending on Friday, the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram is in a fix as it is yet to identify an alternative place to dump waste. Gurugram, India-March 31, 2023: The civic agency is preparing a two acre land near the Bandhwari landfill for dumping and …

2 years, 1 month ago

NGT fines Delhi govt. ₹2,232 crore for poor waste management

The Hindu

The National Green Tribunal has imposed a fine of ₹2,232 crore on the Delhi government for damage caused to the environment due to improper solid and liquid waste management. Deducting the compensation for solid waste already levied on the Delhi government, the remaining amount of ₹2,232 crore has to be paid by the Delhi government on the ‘polluter pays’ principle,” …

2 years, 8 months ago

From today, Chandigarh MC to up ante against regular waste sorting defaulters

Hindustan Times

After zeroing down on individual households giving non-segregated waste, the Chandigarh municipal corporation will now step up the drive against them, imposing fines and issuing challans from August 1. The MC, after a detailed survey of all localities in the city, has identified 514 households which are regular defaulters, and giving mix garbage without segregation, said MC commissioner Anindita Mitra. …

2 years, 8 months ago

Chandigarh’s legacy waste removal project: Firm makes lowest bid of ₹79 crore, MC to try to bring it lower

Hindustan Times

The work on removing the second lot of 7.67 metric tonnes of legacy waste at the Dadumajra landfill is likely to start soon. A total of 12.7 lakh MT legacy waste is to be cleared from the 25-acre Dadumajra landfill in Chandigarh. In its second attempt at allotting the work, the municipal corporation on Thursday opened the financial bids, in …

4 years, 6 months ago

Chandigarh MC to adopt two-pronged strategy to run Dadumajra plant

Hindustan Times

With the waste processing plant at Dadumajra operating at only 10% capacity, the Chandigarh municipal corporation is working on a two-pronged strategy to meet the solid waste processing needs of the city. “For meeting the city’s immediate needs of waste processing, our effort will be to improve the existing plant,” said KK Yadav, MC commissioner. The National Institute of Technical …

5 years, 6 months ago

Chandigarh misses deadline for implementing waste segregation

Hindustan Times

Despite its commitment made to the National Green Tribunal in March this year, the Chandigarh municipal corporation has failed to meet the deadline to implement waste segregation throughout the city by September 30. Last week, Jaypee Group that runs the garbage processing plant in Dadumajra moved the NGT, complaining that the civic body has not yet begun supplying segregated waste …

6 years, 2 months ago

8 Yrs And On: Dumping Along River Kali Costs 22 Lives, 200 Ailing; NGT Calls For Ground Report [Read Order]

Live Law

Eight years of unmindful, unscientific and unlawful garbage dumping on highly productive land along river Kali in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut district is said to have claimed 22 human lives and made the local population in nearby villages generally unwell with recurrent diarrhoea, asthma, skin disorders, leprosy and other deadly diseases.The concerns of the villagers from around the river were. Eight …

7 years, 6 months ago

The Ghazipur landfill collapses, another catches fire, and no one wants a dumpsite in the backyard. Where must our solid waste go?

The Hindu

A defiant mound — lush with grass as on a golf course — rises amidst 150-feet-high mountains of rotting garbage that constitute Delhi’s most infamous landfill, in Ghazipur. In an earlier interview, Ravi Agarwal, Director, Toxics Link, an organisation that works on waste management problems, had said that unless basic steps such as segregating waste at source were undertaken, it …

8 years, 3 months ago

NGT orders Rs 10,000 fine for throwing garbage at public places

Hindustan Times

Throwing garbage in the open will attract a fine R10,000, the National Green Tribunal announced on Monday. The National Green Tribunal said municipal solid waste is one of the most serious pollutants in Delhi. “All major sources of municipal solid waste generation - hotels, restaurants, slaughter houses, vegetable markets etc, should be directed to provide segregated waste and handover the …

8 years, 7 months ago

Waste leaves Andhra Pradesh down in the dumps

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: When it comes to managing solid waste, urban local bodies in the state are down in the dumps. At present only 7 per cent of the total municipal solid waste generated is being scientifically treated. One of the major issues in urban local bodies is in waste handling is segregation at source, failing which waste treatment gets inefficient. A …

9 years, 5 months ago

Post MC threat, processing plant mgmt ready to pull out in Chd

Hindustan Times

A day after the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation threatened to cancel the memorandum of understanding with the company running the waste processing plant in Sector 25, the plant authorities say they were ready to pull out. Speaking to HT, in-charge of the waste processing plant RD Sharma said, “We will receive waste from Shimla only till October 13, which is next …

NGT order on waste processing: Now, it’s Chandigarh vs Shimla

History of this topic

Chandigarh municipal corporation plans ₹12 crore project to clear Dadumajra waste dump

NGT orders Tiruppur Collector to file report on waste dumping at quarry, hearing set for March 24

Chandigarh: Work to clear 3rd trash mountain at Dadumajra landfill begins

Chandigarh mayor writes to Punjab governor, seeks 20 acres in Mohali for setting up integrated waste processing plant

Ghaziabad: Civic body clears 31,713 metric tonnes of waste from Madhuban Bapudham site

Dadumajra residents meet MC chief over dumping of horticulture waste in open

NGT directs Kerala government to clear biomedical waste from Tamil Nadu in three days

NGT directs Kerala to take back its biomedical waste dumped in Tamil Nadu within 3 days

Legacy waste at Chandigarh’s Dadumajra landfill will be cleared by December-end, says Centre

No end to Chandigarh’s trash trouble as third mountain rises at Dadumajra dump

Case in NGT against dumping waste in quarries, Tiruppur corporation looks for options

Nellore, Kakinada each to get a new Waste to Energy plant

Chandigarh MC to start mixed waste segregation with new plant at Dadumajra dump by Nov-end

Legacy waste: SC stays NGT order directing Punjab govt to pay over Rs 1,000 crore

NGT imposes up to ₹50,000 fine for dumping solid waste in unauthorised areas in Uttar Pradesh

CHandigarh MC planning to set up plant to segregate mixed waste at Dadumajra dump

Now, Chandigarh admn pushes deadline to clear Dadumajra landfill to December

NGT seeks report from Tamil Nadu, Kerala authorities on garbage dumping in Tirunelveli

Chandigarh: Work starts to set up temporary wet waste plant in Dadumajra

NGT chief directs local authorities in Mysuru to strictly implement solid waste management plan

21% funds spent on managing solid waste: Chandigarh admn to NGT

NGT imposes Rs 4,000 cr fine on Bihar for failing to scientifically manage solid, liquid waste

MCG misses another deadline, will send daily waste to Bandhwari

NGT fines Delhi govt. ₹2,232 crore for poor waste management

From today, Chandigarh MC to up ante against regular waste sorting defaulters

Chandigarh’s legacy waste removal project: Firm makes lowest bid of ₹79 crore, MC to try to bring it lower

Chandigarh MC to adopt two-pronged strategy to run Dadumajra plant

Chandigarh misses deadline for implementing waste segregation

8 Yrs And On: Dumping Along River Kali Costs 22 Lives, 200 Ailing; NGT Calls For Ground Report [Read Order]

The Ghazipur landfill collapses, another catches fire, and no one wants a dumpsite in the backyard. Where must our solid waste go?

NGT orders Rs 10,000 fine for throwing garbage at public places

Waste leaves Andhra Pradesh down in the dumps

Post MC threat, processing plant mgmt ready to pull out in Chd

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