Tag Archives: waste management

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), India has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that every year before the onset of monsoon, the Mumbai municipal authorities engage ‘seasonal sanitation workers’ to clean about 2200 km long storm water cum sewage drain network with their bare hands amounting to ‘manual scavenging’. …

There is no report of practice of manual scavenging in any district, stated UNION MINISTER OF STATE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT, SHRI RAMDAS ATHAWALE, in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today. Parliament enacted ‘The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013 …

The Central Government has taken adequate steps by making provisions under the Mineral Conservation and Development Rules, 2017 [MCDR, 2017] to ensure environment friendly dumping of mine waste to minimise impact on the environment and society. Under the existing law, the miners are mandated to store the waste material on …

In a significant step to review progress and gather feedback on the progress of the GOBARdhan Initiative, Union Minister for Jal Shakti Shri C. R. Paatil, in New Delhi today, interacted with Compressed Biogas (CBG) producers and key stakeholders of the sector. The meeting signifies the importance the Government attaches …