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SRA Netram Portal to Track Illegal Slums in Mumbai Using Satellite Images
SRA Netram Portal : Mumbai’s Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) has developed a…
Environment
New waste rules put every obligated entity on a central portal by October
New Delhi - India generates roughly 620 lakh tonnes of municipal solid waste a year, and new rules require every…
Delhi NCR industrial emission deadline slips to October as monitoring lags
New Delhi - The Commission for Air Quality Management pushed back its deadline for large and medium industrial units in…
Battery waste portal now cross-checks producer claims against GST and customs data
New Delhi - The battery waste compliance portal now cross-checks declared sales against GST filings and customs data, and that…
E-waste recycling targets hit 70 per cent as certificate price band stays in court
New Delhi - Producers of electronic goods must recycle 70 per cent of their estimated waste generation in financial years…
CPCB moves from nudges to penalties on plastic packaging targets
New Delhi - The Central Pollution Control Board has moved from persuasion to penalty on plastic packaging, and the companies…
Effluent rules extend to micropollutants as zero liquid discharge stays a licence condition
New Delhi - Zero liquid discharge sounds like an environmental aspiration. For a distillery or a textile processing unit in…
Industrial groundwater goes on the meter as CGWA tightens permit conditions
New Delhi - Industrial groundwater users now report their extraction monthly through digital flow meters, and in over-exploited areas most…
The single-use plastic ban now runs on barcodes, where the producer is registered
New Delhi - India has stopped adding items to its single-use plastic ban and started trying to enforce the list…
Biodiversity benefit sharing reaches 20 per cent of sales, and now covers gene sequences
Chennai - Any Indian company with turnover above one crore rupees that uses biological resources must now file an annual…
Green credits now require trees to be alive after five years, not merely planted
New Delhi - The government has rewritten how green credits are earned for tree planting, replacing a count of saplings…
