JMCâs illegal activity further deteriorating air quality Mechanism for scientific disposal remains a dream
Mohinder Verma
JAMMU, Dec 12: Despite blanket ban imposed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) several years back, there is no end to the open burning of municipal solid waste in different parts of Jammu, which has already been declared as non-attainment city because of poor air quality.
This is mainly because the Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) has failed to evolve any mechanism for scientific disposal of garbage/municipal solid waste ever since its creation several decades back.
Official sources told EXCELSIOR that in the month of December 2016, the National Green Tribunal, while dealing with Original Application Number 593, imposed a complete ban on burning of waste in open places across the country and even announced a fine of Rs 25,000 on each incident of bulk waste burning.
Attappady to erect human wall against ESA, ESZ
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The Attappady Zone Farmer Protection Council will organise a human wall on Sunday afternoon at Attappady to protest against the Ecologically Sensitive Area (ESA) and Eco-Sensitive Zone (ESZ) notifications of the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
About 60,000 farmers are expected to attend the human wall that will stretch from Mukkali to Anakkatti on the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border in Attappady.
The 37-km human wall would be formed at 3.30 p.m., said council president Sreelakshmi Sreekumar and secretary Johnson Vilangupara.
They said that they had no way but to protest against ESA and ESZ notifications, as they would virtually convert Attappady into a forest. Farmers from Agali, Sholayur and Pudur panchayats of Attappady would join the protest irrespective of their political affiliations, they said.
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Project is stuck due to lack of clearance
The Central government has written to the Delhi government to give permission for cutting trees for a 100-bed hospital in Najafgarh, which has been pending with the latter.
The Hindu had reported on November 27 how the hospital project of the Union Health Ministry was stuck as permission for cutting trees has been pending with the Delhi Environment Minister’s office for almost two years.
The Additional Director General (ADG) of Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change wrote to the Delhi government on November 27 to “look into the matter” of permission for cutting trees. The ADG sent the letter in response to a letter by the Secretary of Union Ministry of Health on the subject.
Stalled Manora MLA hostel plan changes hands, goes to PWD
ByShruti GanapatyeShruti Ganapatye / Updated: Dec 10, 2020, 13:12 IST
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Its redevelopment under NBCC stalled earlier this year due to lack of CZMP; high-level panel feels progress was slow.
The Maharashtra government has entrusted the reconstruction of Manora MLA Hostel in Nariman Point to the Public Works Department (PWD) instead of the National Building Construction Corporation (NBCC), a central public sector undertaking. The decision comes after the reconstruction work halted earlier this year due to technical reasons.
Built between 1990 and 1994, Manora is a complex of four 14-storeyed towers (A to D), with 303 rooms each. In 2017, a ceiling slab had collapsed in Tower D, forcing the PWD and the MMRDA to hasten the redevelopment plan. By 2018, all towers were in a dilapidated condition, with countless bamboo props supporting the rooms. Over 175 MLAs refused to move out of the dangerous structur