The Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) Vishrambaug-Kasba regional ward office caught a truck red-handed while dumping debris on the riverbed behind Vartak Gartak, and recovered a fine of Rs 25,000. The truck was confiscated and later returned after the owner removed the dumped debris. Assistant municipal commissioner and Kasba regional ward officer Arun Khilari said the […]
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Nowadays, ever increasing industrialization leading to environmental pollution is becoming serious threat. Exhausted gas and water from industries posing threat to public health is a common sight. Industrialists have to contribute to address such environmental issues. Here we look at the passion of an industrialist to plant and grow as many trees as possible. Mr.
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The Environment Status Report (ESR) for 2011-12, exposes the administration’s claim of achieving 100% processing. The city’s garbage collection is going up by 5% every year. The ESR states that the processing units function up to 70% of their capacity because of the gaps in garbage collection, electricity problems, machinery breakdown, maintenance and other local
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Street dogs are creating problems for birds such as Lapwing, peacock who build their nest on ground. Eggs of these birds are destroyed by these dogs. Peacocks and peahens are also chased by dogs. Professor Sanjeev B. Nalavade (Head, Department of Geology, D.E.S. Fergusson College) said “I noticed in many occasion where dogs follows deer
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Green Hills Group has been working for last 10 years in rain water harvesting and tree plantation in Pune hills mainly Hanuman tekadi and Chaturshingi tekadi. They have been successful in converting rocky hanuman tekdi in Greenary in last ten years. Ravi Purandare, Chairman (Past Secretary) and key founder member of Green Hills group said, “We
More urban women are using hi-fibre sanitary napkins. The muslin nappy for babies has been replaced by thick diapers and none of these are biomedical waste , yet, are toxic. Waste pickers injure hand from pins and glass pieces. But the worst form of waste, sanitary napkins and diapers. In an attempt to reduce these encounters with
Wakad Lake is located a few hundred metres before the Kalewadi phata chowk, along the Aundh-Ravet Road. It is located at a prime location in the fast developing area of Wakad, which was earlier with the Pimpri-Chinchwad New Township Development Authority. It was later transferred and brought under the development control of the PCMC. The site
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Recently, a city based non-governmental organization Janadhar has taken an initiative to convert kitchen waste into fertilizers and the first stock of three tonne fertilizer was supplied to farmers from Mulshi tehsil of Pune district. The kitchen waste and huge piles of dumped vegetables at the wholesale market will no longer be the food for stray
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City-based NGO Applied Environmental Research Foundation (AERF) in collaboration with the Institute for Conservation Research, San Diego Zoo Global in the US, will take up research projects on conservation in Western Ghats. The research centre will come up in Sangameshwar, in Ratnagiri district. The conservation projects will focus on community-based approach programs that will benefit the
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According to the findings of the emission inventory by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, (IITM) Pune, Emission from diesel-operated vehicles and dust from road construction have emerged as major pollutants in the city. College students have helped collect information from source (hotels, vehicles, slums, industry) of pollution for the emission inventory under the guidance of
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