News Muncher - category neeri

3 weeks, 6 days ago

If Unprotected, Hyd Won’t Have Lakes by 2040: Ranganath

Hyderabad: Urbanisation in Telangana is taking place 12 per cent faster than the national average, HYDRAA commissioner A.V. Ranganath said 61 per cent of Hyderabad’s lakes had disappeared, with the remaining 39 per cent requiring immediate protection to prevent their extinction in the next 15 years. The state government established HYDRAA to safeguard lakes, public parks, roads and government land …

Lake Neeri Hydraa Hyd

3 months, 1 week ago

SC reverses NGT order of closing down Pune’s Baner waste plant

Hindustan Times

The Supreme Court on Thursday held that closure of garbage processing plant would do more harm than good for citizens as it set aside an order of the National Green Tribunal closing an organic waste processing plant at Baner in Pune. Allowing an appeal filed by the Pune Municipal Corporation challenging the NGT, Western Zone’s order of October 27, 2020, …

Court Pune Tribunal Waste Corporation Plant Ngt Order

3 months, 3 weeks ago

NGT unhappy over delay in addressing pollution of Edappally, Perandoor canals

The Hindu

The National Green Tribunal has expressed dissatisfaction over the inordinate delay in taking remedial measures against the pollution of Edappally and Perandoor canals owing to unauthorised discharge of sewage into the waterbodies. The Southern Bench had taken suo motu notice of the report titled ‘Faecal contamination high in Perandoor, Edappally canals’ published in The Hindu on January 28, 2021. The …

Pollution Report Bench Neeri Edappally Canals Perandoor

5 months, 1 week ago

CBI Books Former Director Neeri, Other Scientists in Corruption Cases

Deccan Chronicle

New Delhi: The CBI has booked Nagpur Rakesh Kumar, the former director of CSIR NEERI, and four scientists of the institute in three FIRs of alleged corruption and favours extended to private companies in awarding various projects, including the giant air-purifiers WAYU, officials said Wednesday. They said the agency's action followed allegations of criminal conspiracy and corruption in a complaint …

Mumbai Director Criminal Conspiracy Accused Cbi Firm Navi

9 months, 2 weeks ago

Ground Water Contamination| NGT Raps Punjab PCB, NEERI For Its Failure Take Immediate Measures In Sangrur, Says Problem 'So Serious', Summons Top Officials

Live Law

The principal bench of National Green Tribunal has summoned the Director, NEERI and Member Secretary, Punjab Pollution Control Board to explain the delay in filing the status report and what immediate measures can be taken to resolve the problem of groundwater contamination in Punjab's Sangrur.A bench of Chairperson Justice Prakash Shrivastava, Justice Sudhir Agarwal, Dr. A. The principal bench of …

Tribunal Status Report Punjab Sangrur Ngt Pcb

1 year, 1 month ago

Bombay High Court Reduces Time For Bursting Firecrackers To Two Hours, Seeks Statutory Mechanism To Combat Pollution

Live Law

The Bombay High Court today reduced the window during which bursting of firecrackers is permitted in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region to 8 PM – 10 PM in view of previous order of the Supreme Court in Arjun Gopal v. Union of India passed on November 8, 2021. The court also sought a statutory mechanism to curb air pollution. In a …

Mumbai High Court Court Quality Pollution Air Statutory

1 year, 2 months ago

Kerala Pollution Control Board greenlights study by CSIR-NEERI to develop tech to prevent sewage pollution of waterbodies

The Hindu

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute will carry out a feasibility study on the development of process package treatment method to check pollution of the Pallikkalar stretch in Karunagapally, and Edappally, Perandoor canals in Kochi at an estimated cost of ₹45 lakh. The Kerala State Pollution Control Board has given its approval for the project …

Kerala Kochi Neeri Edappally

1 year, 3 months ago

Supreme Court reserves order on green firecrackers during Diwali in Delhi

Op India

The Supreme Court on Thursday said that it will consider whether the manufacture and use of green crackers can be permitted or not and reserved the order on the issue. Petroleum and Explosive Safety Organization, in the affidavit, apprised the court about the Green Cracker approval process and said the Fireworks may be broadly classified as Sound Emitting; Light emitting …

Delhi Supreme Court Court Diwali Fireworks Firecrackers Green

1 year, 3 months ago

Firecracker Ban | Cases Against Persons Bursting May Not Be The Solution, Find The Source & Take Action : Supreme Court To Delhi Police

Live Law

The Supreme Court Thursday told the Delhi Police that the issues relating to violation of the firecracker ban imposed in Delhi NCR must be nipped in the bud. The Court orally remarked that there was no point in taking action after violations have taken place.A bench of Justice A S Bopanna and Justice M M Sundresh was hearing a batch …

Justice Delhi Action Court Pollution Delhi Police Ban

1 year, 3 months ago

Supreme Court Seeks The Strategy For Its Implementation To Delhi Police

Live Law

The Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned the Delhi Police on how they were going to implement the firecracker ban imposed in the National Capital Territory of Delhi. Gopal Sankaranarayanan appearing for the petitioner submitted that despite the directions of the Court, there have been blatant violations in Delhi NCR. The Apex Court has since 2015 passed several orders while considering …

India Delhi Supreme Court Court Sale Firecrackers Delhi Police

1 year, 4 months ago

‘337 MT of undisposed toxic waste at Bhopal disaster site’

The Hindu

Despite warnings and directions of the National Green Tribunal, 337 metric tonnes of hazardous waste stored on the Union Carbide India Limited premises — the site of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy — is yet to be disposed of, according to a report by the Central Pollution Control Board submitted to the green court. At the meeting, Atul Narayan Vaidya, …

Waste Neeri Toxic Waste Ucil

1 year, 5 months ago

Chandigarh: NEERI backs city’s new waste plant

Hindustan Times

Amid objections and technical queries by the opposition parties on the setting up of a new integrated waste management plant at Dadumajra, the Chandigarh municipal corporation on Monday fielded Atul Narayan Vaidya, director of the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nagpur, to support their proposed multi-crore project. Opposition councillors, who had raised concerns as to why the plant will convert …

Goa Congress Chandigarh Waste Tour Plant Dry Waste

2 years, 2 months ago

Explained: What are green crackers and why should we use them this Diwali?

Firstpost

Green firecrackers are eco-friendly; they cause 30 per cent less pollution than conventional ones. Green crackers are low-emission crackers free of harmful chemicals like sulphur nitrates, arsenic, magnesium, sodium, lead, and barium. However, green crackers cause 30 per cent less air pollution as compared to traditional ones. “Green crackers reduce emissions substantially and absorb dust and don’t contain hazardous elements …

India Air Diwali Green Ones Neeri Crackers

2 years, 4 months ago

Land surface temperature increases by 5 degrees over 20 years in SoBo

Hindustan Times

Mumbai With the world’s temperature increasing continuously for the last 150 years, the densely-populated coastal city of Mumbai has not been spared. For this study, titled ‘Impact of Land-Use Dynamics on Land Surface Temperature in Mumbai City’, researchers used remote sensing data from NASA’s Landsat Program to assess changing land use in Mumbai city Land surface temperature in south Mumbai …

Mumbai Temperature Heat Land City 2020 Mumbai City

2 years, 9 months ago

India’s fireworks capital losing its sparkle

The Hindu

Early in the 20th century, young cousins A. Shanmuga Nadar and P. Ayya Nadar set off to Calcutta from their home town Sivakasi, an arid region in the present-day Virudhunagar district, to learn the know-how of the match work industry. “Rain-fed farming happens between November and February and then the entire workforce used to be rendered jobless in those days,” …

India Industry Workers Fireworks Units Deepavali Centre

2 years, 10 months ago

Environment Ministry notifies guidelines on EPR for plastic packaging

The Hindu

Taking forward the clarion call given by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to eliminate single-use plastics, the Environment Ministry has notified comprehensive guidelines on Extended Producer Responsibility for plastic packaging, Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav said on Thursday. “Taking forward the clarion call given by PM Shri @narendramodi ji to eliminate single-use plastics, @moefcc has notified comprehensive Guidelines on Extended Producers …

Pollution Packaging Guidelines Yadav Waste Plastic Shall

2 years, 10 months ago

Full Bench Of Madras High Court Directs State To Immediately Frame Action Plan For Removal Of Invasive 'Seemai Karuvelam' Trees

Live Law

In a batch of writ petitions seeking the eradication of invasive plant species 'Seemai Karuvelam' across Tamil Nadu, a full bench of the Madras High Court has directed the state government to frame a policy/ action plan for its removal immediately. The AAG also submitted that they are yet to receive the satellite data of the Seemai Karuvelam trees across …

Justice Tamil Nadu Court Order Trees Species State

2 years, 11 months ago

Taj Trapezium Zone- No Industrial Units Shall Be Cleared By UP Govt. Till Sectorial Guidelines Are Obtained from NEERI: SC Clarifies Previous Order

Live Law

The Supreme Court has further clarified its December, 2019 order by which it lifted the status quo as regards construction, industrial activities and felling of trees in the Taj Trapezium Zone, in so far as the order required concurrence with the Central Empowerment Committee and opinion of NEERI. "In respect of the clarification of the Order dated 06.12.2019 pertaining to …

Court Uttar Pradesh Guidelines Order Trees Forest State

3 years, 3 months ago

NEERI transfers RT-PCR tech to MSME Ministry

The Hindu

The Nagpur-based National Environmental Engineering Research Institute has transferred the know-how of indigenously developed Saline Gargle RT-PCR technique to the Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises for commercialising it, a statement said on Sunday. The ceremonial transfer of the Standard Operating Procedure and know-how of the Saline Gargle RT-PCR technique was done in the presence of Union Minister Nitin …

Msme Neeri

3 years, 4 months ago

Environment body recommends wet scrubbers to control air pollution at Vaikunth crematorium

Hindustan Times

PUNE The Pune Municipal Corporation -appointed Council of Scientific and Industrial Research - National Environmental Engineering Research Institute has recommended installing wet scrubber to control air pollution at the city’s Vaikunth crematorium. HT Image Padma Rao, senior principal scientist, air pollution control division, Neeri, and her team visited Vaikunth crematorium last Thursday. Shrinivas Kandul, additional city engineer, electrical department, PMC, …

Pollution Control Air Pmc Neeri Crematorium Scrubber

3 years, 5 months ago

Accept NEERI’s advice to rework contentious draft EIA 2020: Activists to Centre

Hindustan Times

As many as a hundred environmental organisations and individuals wrote to Union environment minister Prakash Javadekar on Monday asking him to accept a CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute report that reviewed at least 200,000 comments received by the ministry on its draft environment impact assessment notification 2020. They wrote an open letter to the minister after reviewing a CSIR-NEERI report …

Environment Environmental Comments Report Centre Ministry 2020

3 years, 7 months ago

'Anti Nationals' Protesting Against Vedanta, Says Salve; Vedanta A 'Rogue Company', Says Gonsalves [Court Room Exchange]

Live Law

The memo, Mr Vaidyanathan indicated, refers to an April 23 meeting convened by the Tuticorin collector with all the stakeholders pursuant to the observations of the top court for the reopening of the oxygen plant. 'Don't trust Vedanta; let state government operate plant', pray pollution-victims At this juncture, Senior Advocate Colin Gonsalves, representing the families of those "severely affected" by …

India Justice Tamil Nadu State Government Tamil State Committee

4 years, 1 month ago

The ‘poisonous’ pollutants of green crackers

Live Mint

With a few days to go for Diwali, markets across India have started selling an oxymoron: green crackers, most of which are said to cause around 30% less pollution than an average cracker. The green crackers don’t work without barium; attempts to do so, he says, were “a failure”. In March 2019, the legal counsel for PESO told the SC …

India Climate Change Delhi Diwali Fireworks Firecrackers Green

4 years, 4 months ago

SC Warns to Initiate Contempt Proceedings Against IIT Bombay for Backing Out of Smog Tower Project

Live Law

The Supreme Court on Wednesday expressed great displeasure upon learning that the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay had backed out from completing the Smog Tower project which would help Delhi fight its pollution crisis. In December 2019, a Supreme Court Bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra directed the Centre and Delhi Government to ensure that a smog tower, essentially large …

Justice Court Contempt Project Mishra Bench Contempt Proceedings

Filters

Articles for Neeri

If Unprotected, Hyd Won’t Have Lakes by 2040: Ranganath

SC reverses NGT order of closing down Pune’s Baner waste plant

NGT unhappy over delay in addressing pollution of Edappally, Perandoor canals

CBI Books Former Director Neeri, Other Scientists in Corruption Cases

Ground Water Contamination| NGT Raps Punjab PCB, NEERI For Its Failure Take Immediate Measures In Sangrur, Says Problem 'So Serious', Summons Top Officials

Bombay High Court Reduces Time For Bursting Firecrackers To Two Hours, Seeks Statutory Mechanism To Combat Pollution

Kerala Pollution Control Board greenlights study by CSIR-NEERI to develop tech to prevent sewage pollution of waterbodies

Supreme Court reserves order on green firecrackers during Diwali in Delhi

Firecracker Ban | Cases Against Persons Bursting May Not Be The Solution, Find The Source & Take Action : Supreme Court To Delhi Police

Supreme Court Seeks The Strategy For Its Implementation To Delhi Police

‘337 MT of undisposed toxic waste at Bhopal disaster site’

Chandigarh: NEERI backs city’s new waste plant

Explained: What are green crackers and why should we use them this Diwali?

Land surface temperature increases by 5 degrees over 20 years in SoBo

India’s fireworks capital losing its sparkle

Environment Ministry notifies guidelines on EPR for plastic packaging

Full Bench Of Madras High Court Directs State To Immediately Frame Action Plan For Removal Of Invasive 'Seemai Karuvelam' Trees

Taj Trapezium Zone- No Industrial Units Shall Be Cleared By UP Govt. Till Sectorial Guidelines Are Obtained from NEERI: SC Clarifies Previous Order

NEERI transfers RT-PCR tech to MSME Ministry

Environment body recommends wet scrubbers to control air pollution at Vaikunth crematorium

Accept NEERI’s advice to rework contentious draft EIA 2020: Activists to Centre

'Anti Nationals' Protesting Against Vedanta, Says Salve; Vedanta A 'Rogue Company', Says Gonsalves [Court Room Exchange]

The ‘poisonous’ pollutants of green crackers

SC Warns to Initiate Contempt Proceedings Against IIT Bombay for Backing Out of Smog Tower Project