Aafrin Kidwai
Building owners within the Greater Chennai Corporation will have to pay user charges to the civic body for garbage removal from January 1 as per Solid Waste Management Rules, 2019. The move to collect user…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) has begun pasting unique QR codes outside homes in the city to monitor the door-to-door waste collection system. The civic body’s target is to cover 2.50 lakh households in the…
Aafrin Kidwai
Urbaser Sumeet, appointed by the Greater Chennai Corporation to carry out conservancy works in Chennai, has employed a conservancy team comprising only women in division 199 (Uthandi) in Sholinganallur zone. The division has a team…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Telangana government is gearing up for comprehensive waste management reforms with a new policy for decentralised waste management in the city. It is developing 17 transfer stations, pressing into service additional 650 swachh auto…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is reportedly planning to submit a proposal to the government to form a separate board or entity for solid waste management in the city. The entity, an arm of…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Karnataka Legislative Assembly has approved the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike’s (BBMP) Bill 2020, promising sweeping administrative and structural changes. Now, gram panchayats and town municipalities within one square km radius of BBMP will be…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Andhra Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MAUD) department has given administrative sanction for the release of Rs 316 crore as the first instalment under the grant of 15th finance commission for taking up various…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
In what is probably a first-of-its-kind attempt by an Indian city, Indore has sold carbon credits earned for its sustainable projects, including a bio-methanation plant and compost plant, generating revenue worth Rs 50 lakh. MoHUA…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Karnataka govt has sought the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike’s (BBMP) views on setting up an independent new agency to look at the functioning of seven waste processing units. The collection and transportation of garbage…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
TRS working president and Municipal Administration Minister KT Rama Rao confirmed that the government is already in the process of decentralisation of garbage collection, recycling of waste and improve sewage treatment. The initiative will speed…
Aafrin Kidwai
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) to seize bank guarantees of Zirakpur, Banur and Nayagaon municipal councils. The committee directed the PPCB to encash Rs 2 lakh bank…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has directed marshals to submit a report on the performance of solid waste collection service providers in the wards where work orders have been issued recently. The BBMP has…
Aafrin Kidwai
The National Green Tribunal has directed the Armed forces to hold a meeting with Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to develop an in-house monitoring mechanism for scientific waste management. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Telangana government is going to release a comprehensive Waste Management Policy soon, Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister K Taraka Rama Rao informed The Hindu. Inaugurating a Construction and Demolition (C&D) Waste Recycling plant…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike’s (BBMP) Solid Waste Management Department and The Ugly Indian, a group of anonymous volunteers who work to keep the city clean, are collaborating to identify locations to set up garbage…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC)’s recent online solution for public feedback regarding waste collection by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) is resulting in tough action. The contracts of six NGOs have been already terminated on the basis…
Aafrin Kidwai
The CII 3R (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) Awards were announced during the International CII Waste to Worth Conference on Friday. The Awards are designed to recognise the efforts of companies who have set benchmarks in three…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) is exhorting citizens to participate in handling domestic waste on their own by offering 50% rebate in SWM cess levied with property tax and in trade license. The MCC will…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Karnataka government has approved the state’s Urban Solid Waste Management (SWM) Policy-2020 and the Urban Solid Waste Management Strategy-2020. The new policy sets an ambitious target of achieving 100% segregation at source of solid…
Aafrin Kidwai
Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand have achieved 100 per cent door-to-door collection of solid waste, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) has said. The Ministry said that both states shared the details in a review meeting…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Commissioner N Manjunath Prasad has instructed heads of all departments in the civic body not to take up any new projects or float tenders as the model code of…
Aafrin Kidwai
In a bid to ensure effective waste management in the city and hold the municipal authorities accountable, the Chandigarh Smart City Limited (CSCL) has initiated a six-crore project called Solid Waste Management Vehicle Tracking and…
Aafrin Kidwai
Speaking on the occasion of the Swachchata Diwas, Minister of State – MoHUA, Mr Hardeep Singh Puri, underlined the importance paid to urban spaces by the Modi government. Mr Puri said the greatest success of…
Aafrin Kidwai
Waste segregation at source (WSS) will be uniformly implemented in all 60-wards of Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) from October 2. Following a pilot run, authorities have decided to go ahead with their plans. They will…
Aafrin Kidwai
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) dismissed an appeal filed by the Bainguinim Citizens Forum against the environmental clearance (EC) granted to the Solid Waste Management Facility at Bainguinim taluka in North Goa. The Goa Waste Management…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) has issued a tender to outsource door-to-door garbage collection and transportation services to a private agency. CCP has categorised the work in two packages – wet waste…
Aafrin Kidwai
Following the NGT’s July order observing that slow progress was being made in the Brahmapuram Waste to Energy (WtE) plant project, the Kerala State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has assured the NGT that the plant…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Ludhiana MC officials have started a campaign to educate its staff and citizens about responsible waste management practices. This has been prompted by indications that the Punjab solid waste management and cleanliness and sanitation…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has announced that each ward will be ranked based on waste segregation levels. The BBMP Special Commissioner (solid waste management), D Randeep has reportedly directed the officials to do…
Aafrin Kidwai
To monitor the disposal of solid waste and address grievances of the residents, the Noida Authority has launched an integrated control room for complaints about garbage collection and disposal. Ms Ritu Maheshwari, CEO, NOIDA, inaugurated the ‘Integrated Control &…
Aafrin Kidwai
Following technical assessments that highlighted how the waste processing plant at Dadumajra was operating at only 10% capacity, the Chandigarh municipal corporation (MC) is working on a two-pronged strategy to meet the solid waste processing…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Greater Noida Authority has drawn up a plan to deal with waste generated across 43 residential sectors in the city. Having carried out a survey of the households, the Authority has now begun looking…
Aafrin Kidwai
Upcoming housing projects with a built-up area of at least 200,000sq ft have to mandatorily create space for a waste compactor station on the plot, the Calcutta Municipal Corporation has decided. The corporation took the…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) council has decided to reduce the solid waste management user fee. For properties up to 500 sq ft built-up area, the user fee of Rs 50 per month has been…
Aafrin Kidwai
The latest newsletter of the Swacch Bharat Mission (Urban) titled “Swachhata Sandesh” (May-June 2020) was recently released on the SBM-U’s website. In this edition, the focus is on innovative measures taken by states and cities…
Aafrin Kidwai
The South Delhi Municipal Corporation has received Rs 43 crore from the Centre under the urban development fund (UDF) scheme for the current financial year, part of which will be used for SWM projects. Rs…
Aafrin Kidwai
Barely six months after announcing that it would adopt the Indore model of waste collection, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has decided to revert to its old system of collecting wet and dry waste…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched a week-long garbage-free India campaign in the run up to Independence Day, called Gandagi Mukt Bharat. This week-long campaign for swachhata in the run-up to Independence Day will…
Aafrin Kidwai
Urban local bodies in Telangana will collect user charges for waste collection, as per revised charges announced by the Municipal Administration and Urban Development Department. A private agency will collect the amount after categorizing waste…
Aafrin Kidwai
The National Green Tribunal has said adequate steps were not being taken against unregulated dumping of solid waste on the flood plains of the Yamuna in the temple town of Vrindavan. The green panel noted…
Aafrin Kidwai
The recently released Energy Statistics Report 2020 published by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation provides data on India’s Waste to Energy (WtE) output and potential. Solar energy is the fastest developing energy source…
Aafrin Kidwai
Recent press reports suggest that revenue losses in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) have prompted it to revise its revenue target for the 2020-21 period, which will also impact its expenditures in the solid waste…
Aafrin Kidwai
The quantum of biomedical waste generated in Delhi increased by 15 times in June compared with the preceding month when just 25 tonnes was being produced daily. According to a report submitted by Environment Pollution…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) organized a webinar on Decentralized waste management solutions for India earlier today. Moderated by Ulhas Parlikar, Former Director, Geocycle – ACC, the key speakers included Sharad Ughade, Asst. Commissioner…
Aafrin Kidwai
The latest guidelines issued by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) provide specifications on segregation of general solid waste and biomedical waste from quarantine centers/home-care/healthcare facilities treating COVID-19 patients. Recommendations are also provided on the…
Aafrin Kidwai
Segregation of COVID-19 biomedical waste from other biomedical waste is a must to avoid further spread of the infection and its adverse impact on public health, a bench of the National Green Tribunal headed by…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Uttarakhand government has released Rs 9.24 crore for solid waste management programmes in different parts of the state. The amount will reportedly be used by the urban local bodies for establishing or further improving…
Aafrin Kidwai
Following an overwhelming response to its COVID-19 Waste Management Factsheets, the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) has released the Factsheets in Hindi. It is also preparing to release the Factsheets in other local languages. The…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) has decided to scrap its planned waste treatment plant that was supposed to come up at a landfill on the outskirts of Farrukhnagar. The move comes as a result…
Aafrin Kidwai
Goa Waste management minister Michael Lobo has said the government has not shelved the Bainguinim waste treatment plant project. It has been put on hold as there is a financial crunch. Once funds are available,…
