Municipal Corporation of Delhi to deploy drones to survey landfill sitesThe national capital has three landfill sites - Ghazipur, Bhalaswa and Okhla - that have turned into huge garbage mountains. A plan in this...
11 Jun, 2022, 05.23 PM IST
Biomining of legacy waste, waste-to-energy plants among steps MCD taking to flatten landfillsThe national capital has three landfill sites -- Ghazipur, Bhalaswa and Okhla -- that have turned into huge garbage mountains. According to...
03 Jun, 2022, 03.49 PM IST
Police suspect same persons behind planting of IEDs in Ghazipur and Old Seemapuri in DelhiInvestigators believe that the same persons were behind planting the IEDs within a month. The sketches of two suspects have been prepared, ...
19 Feb, 2022, 07.30 PM IST
Farmers at Ghazipur plant flowers in response to 'iron nails'Stringent security measures like multi-layered barricading, concertina wires, had come up along with iron nails cemented on roads around th...
05 Feb, 2021, 10.05 PM IST
How to make Waste-to-Wealth a realityMonetising power produced from waste is the way to make the govt's slogan of Waste-to-Wealth a reality. The Bawana plant is already leading...
14 Jan, 2018, 11.53 AM IST
Submit plan for waste management plant at Ranikhera: NGTThe National Green Tribunal on Friday directed the civic bodies and the Delhi State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (...
08 Dec, 2017, 08.07 PM IST
Increase capacity of waste to energy plants: Lt Governor Anil Baijal to civic bodiesThe L-G directed the EDMC to immediately take up expansion of the capacity of the existing waste to energy plant and in the first phase, sa...
05 Sep, 2017, 09.39 PM IST
NGT raps SDMC over figures on waste generated in DelhiThe National Green Tribunal hasrapped the South Delhi Municipal Corporation over "inaccurate" data on various kinds of waste generated in t...
22 Nov, 2016, 07.08 PM IST
NGT seeks report on incineration, thermal plantsThe NGT has directed CPCB to submit within a week the inspection report on the waste-to-energy and thermal power plants in the capital, in ...
05 Feb, 2016, 06.11 PM IST
NGT orders inspection of waste-to-energy plants in DelhiConcerned over delay in the operationalizing the waste-to-energy plants in capital, the National Green Tribunal today constituted a "high-p...
17 Dec, 2015, 07.43 PM IST
Municipal bodies using landfill sites at risk of human lives: Economic SurveySouth Delhi Municipal Corporation produces 2700 MTD daily of which 1000 MTD goes to Bhalswa landfill site, also used by North MCD.
28 Jun, 2015, 02.59 PM IST
Manish Sisodia visits controversial Okhla, Ghazipur waste-to-energy plantsA CPCB inspection had revealed levels of dioxins and carcinogenic chemical compounds in the Okhla plant was several times the safe standard.
23 May, 2015, 11.28 AM IST
Rehabilitate slums near railway tracks in six months: NGT to DUSIBA bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar expressed concern over the "inaction" on the part of all the concerned authoritie...
24 Mar, 2015, 04.41 AM IST
- Complete waste processing plant in Ghazipur by June: National Green Tribunal
The Tribunal directed that the Secretary of Power and Energy Department, NCT Delhi and other concerned officers shall be personally respons...
23 Mar, 2015, 05.10 PM IST
- Welspun, Torrent Power, NTPC & THDC sign MoUs with UP govt for power plant
The Welspun group, Torrent Power, NTPC and THDC have signed separate MoU’s with the Uttar Pradesh government to set up four power plants of...
01 Jan, 2011, 10.58 PM IST
- Waste not: It means more power
The MCD and NDMC have undertaken composting of solid waste by enhancing capacity at their present plants under one project and converting i...
09 Apr, 2008, 05.02 PM IST
- MCD to generate power from waste
The MCD has worked out a Rs 170 crore investment plan for removal and segregation of municipal solid waste from which power could be genera...
14 Jan, 2008, 05.46 PM IST