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NEW DELHI: Intensifying its enforcement drive against people causing pollution to ensure environmental compliance, Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has issued 24 challans amounting to Rs 8.2 lakh from October 6 to 21.Officials said that the challans were imposed on sites for violating construction and demolition (C&D) guidelines. MCD has formed 511 surveillance teams, comprising 1,064 officials,...

NEW DELHI: The share of waste burning in Delhi's air is likely to be around 2% for the next four days, according to the Decision Support System, which is the forecasting model under the Union ministry of earth sciences.However, experts have said the contribution of open burning in Delhi's air will rise significantly after winter sets in. Poor and homeless people tend to burn whatever they get to beat...

NEW DELHI: Expecting the city to generate around 19,500 tonnes of solid waste every day by 2041, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi has requested the Union housing and urban affairs ministry requirement for at least 200 acres for the safe disposal of the remnants of waste processing.The detailed project report submitted to the ministry stated that after reclaiming the three landfills at Okhla, Bhalswa...

CHENNAI: The Avadi Municipal Corporation on Tuesday launched a waste cleaning drive under the Swachh Bharat Mission. The corporation will cover all the 48 wards during the drive. The drive was launched by Swachh Bharat Mission state director Sivarasu and Avadi Corporation commissioner Tharpagaraj.Sanitary workers will identify spots where garbage corners have been created and also spots where monitoring...

NEW DELHI: Delhi chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal, made a visit to the Bhalswa landfill site on Saturday and announced plans to process and reduce approximately 45 lakh tonnes of waste from the site by May next year. During his interaction with reporters at the location, Kejriwal explained that once this significant volume of waste is processed, it will lead to the reclamation of "35 acres of land,"...

CHENNAI: A total of 190 tonne of waste was collected by the Greater Chennai Corporation during the weekend after immersion of Ganesha statues by devotees. Among the waste collected, 60% was food, 4.5% was plastic, 6.3% flowers and the remaining were mixed waste.According to a statement, the GCC's garbage collection contractor Urbaser Sumeet deployed 220 men to clean up the beaches around Foreshore...