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Naval personnel celebrate World Environment Day in Goa
The Goa Naval Area observed World Environment Day today. Naval personnel along with their families planted saplings as a part of plantation drive and participated in several activities designed to build a "clean and green environment" at the naval premises and NCS School, Goa.Around 250 saplings were planted by families of the naval fraternity to develop a green cover for future generations. Also, as a part of plantation drive, a total of 700 saplings are being planted per week by the Navy personnel and their civilian staff.As part of the activities towards building a "clean and green environment" like drawing and painting competition for women and children, lectures on protecting the environment and mass plantation drive were also conducted.On the occasion of World Environment Day, Naval personnel was encouraged to create a clean and pollution free environment. The naval community also offered prayed for a productive and enriching monsoon season for the state as well as the country.
2,052 houses approved for construction under PMAY in Jammu
The Jammu and Kashmir government has decided to build 2,052 more houses in Jammu district under the Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana (PMAY), said officials. To be implemented by 2022, the PMAY envisages providing central assistance to urban local bodies and other agencies through states and union territories for rehabilitation of slum dwellers, using land as a resource through private participation. Giving details of the decision, officials said under phase one of the PMAY scheme, 1,059 houses have been approved for construction in Jammu and R S Pura tehsil. Of these, 684 houses have been geo-tagged, while the construction of 542 has been started, out of which 127 have been built up to the roof level, said District Development Commissioner Ramesh Kumar. A total of 993 houses have been approved for construction in Arnia, Bishnah, Gho Manhasa, Khour, Jourian and Akhnoor tehsils in the next phase, he said. Of these, 623 houses have been geo-tagged while 52 others have already been built, he ..
On World Environment Day B-town celebs urge fans to save earth
As the world celebrated Environment Day on Wednesday Bollywood celebrities took to social media to raise awareness about various environmental issues and to spread the message of saving our planet.Actor Dia Mirza, who is also the United Nations Environment Goodwill Ambassador for India, shared a video on Twitter, where she can be seen planting saplings with a few children. She emphasized the importance of planting trees, especially the indigenous ones."Trees are natural air purifiers and sequesters of carbon! As we celebrate #WorldEnvironmentDay with action - planting indigenous trees, we hope that more people will come together to #BeatAirPollution. UNEnvironment UNinIndia SDG2030 #SDGImpactChat #ClimateAction #BreatheLife," she wrote alongside the video.Akshay Kumar collaborated with Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change on the occasion to enlighten people about the alarming air pollution issue.Akshay is seen wearing a face mask to raise the important message with the ..
State fails, Odisha man completes bridge with own savings
Frustrated with years of government apathy, a retired employee of the Veterinary Department has invested all his savings in completing a half-finished bridge over Salandi river in Odisha's Keonjhar district.
World Environment Day: Javadekar plants saplings, urges people to follow suit
On the occasion of World Environment Day on Wednesday, Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar planted saplings at the ministry headquarters here with celebrities like legendary cricketer Kapil Dev and actor Jackie Shroff. The minister also clicked a picture with the sapling as part of the #SelfieWithSapling campaign he launched on Tuesday. The campaign is aimed at encouraging people's participation to tackle environmental issues. Addressing the media on the occasion, Javadekar urged people to plant at least 8 to 10 trees each in their lifetime. "Every individual should plant at least 8-10 trees to fulfil the lifetime requirement of oxygen (for one person)," he said. Javadekar hailed Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari's decision to plant 125 crore trees along the national highways constructed during his tenure. "I appreciate Gadkari ji's decision to plant 125 crore trees along the highways constructed under the Modi government. Whatever Gadkari ji decides, he delivers," he ...
Indian beauty & hygiene Association's sustainable plastic waste management initiative gets encouraging response
Today on the 45th World Environment Day, the Indian Beauty & Hygiene Association (IBHA) has reported successful implementation of its plastic waste management project in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Chennai.The project was launched in 2014, under a task force of IBHA members - L'Oreal, Godrej, HUL, Nivea, Dabur, Himalaya, ITC, J & J, P & G, Wipro, Marico, Colgate, Hygiene Research Institute, and is now looking at expanding this project to other cities.The 'zero-waste' plastic management project focuses on collecting, segregating and recycling post-consumer use multi-layered plastics (MLP), which are considered to be difficult to collect and recycle. Multi-layered plastics are most commonly found in packaging of food packets, shampoo sachets, among others. Under this initiative, the project has successfully collected and recycled around 55 tonnes of MLPs in these cities."While several steps have been taken over the years to recycle post-consumer solid plastic waste, what ..
Sustainability - a way of life at Dalmia Bharat Group
Sustainability has always been a way of life at Dalmia Bharat Group, and the company is globally ranked No 1 by CDP for business readiness to a low carbon transition. Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Limited has adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in its own capacity to ensure the faster realization of SDGs near our manufacturing locations.In line with the SDG's Dalmia Bharat Group is committed to green manufacturing and ensures minimum impact on environment right from procurement of the raw material, to manufacturing process and to the production of the final product."Visualisation of the future and taking bold commitments has been our core strength. We have been leading the sustainability dialogue for over two decades. We take pride in being industry stalwarts for developing products that minimize carbon impact on the environment and are conducive for the society at large. These initiatives have enabled us to create a benchmark and position for Dalmia Bharat Cement as the only ...
Will buyback non-recyclable polythene: Himachal CM
The Himachal Pradesh government will buyback non-recyclable polythene on a fixed price, said Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur while presiding over the State Environment Leadership Awards here on Wednesday. He said a scheme in this regard would be launched by the state government. The award ceremony to mark World Environment Day was jointly held by the HP Council for Science, Technology and Environment (HIMCOSTE); HP State Pollution Control Board and the departments of environment, science and technology and education. Thakur flagged off awareness rallies, in which around 600 students from 30 schools of the town participated. He also unveiled a book, "Compilation of Best Practices on Environmental Excellence", besides other awareness material. The CM awarded institutions and individuals for promoting environment conservation. The awards carried a citation, memento and cash prizes from Rs 25,000 to Rs 50,000.
Festival at tribal village seeks to preserve veggies that grow
Trucks loaded with fruits and vegetables whizz past this tribal village on the Mumbai-Visakhapatnam national highway every night, supplying food to the country's financial capital. The highway has put Vaishakhare village in Thane district on the map. It has also brought to the village the vegetables and fruits which were once available only in the cities. But the same connectivity has endangered the knowledge of wild vegetables that grow in surrounding forests and have to be foraged. To preserve the culinary tradition of the local Thakar community of which forest vegetables are an important part, some organisations in the district have been making conscious efforts for the last six years. On World Environment Day, a competition to collect as many varieties of wild vegetables as possible and cook them was organised at Vaishakhare. Groups from eight villages in the vicinity foraged for veggies in nearby forests Tuesday, woke up early Wednesday to cook them, and brought ...
We have to treat Nature like our mother: Baba Ramdev
Nature should be treated like our mother, said Yoga guru Baba Ramdev on the occasion of World Environment Day on Wednesday.Speaking to ANI, Ramdev said: "Nature and environment, data and artificial intelligence are areas of opportunity and crisis as well. We have to treat Nature as our mother.""We have to behave with reasons. So that nature is not destroyed. If we play with the environment, we will face the consequences," he said."The market forces call for consumerism but we have to think about whether it is possible to live without consumer goods. If I can use one mobile phone, then is there a need for me to use five mobile phones. Similarly, this is true for other utilities and consumer products," he added.Explaining the causes of global warming, the Yoga Guru said: "If we use more resources, the more impact it has on our environment. This leads to global warming. Another reason for global warming is the consumption of meat.""For one kg meat, 100 kg fodder and other crops are used .
China launches its first rocket from mobile platform in sea
China successfully launched a rocket from a mobile platform at Yellow Sea for the first time on Wednesday, sending two technology experiment satellites and five commercial satellites into space. A Long March-11 solid propellant carrier rocket blasted off from a launch pad aboard a ship in the Yellow Sea off the coast of Shandong province at 12:06 pm (local time). It is China's first space launch from a sea-based platform and the 306th mission of the Long March carrier rocket series, official media here reported. China in recent years has emerged as a major space power with first ever mission to the dark side of the moon as well as manned missions besides building its own space station to be ready by 2022. It is also a leading country in launching number of satellites from its launch stations on land. Launching a carrier rocket from an ocean-based platform has many advantages over a land launch. The closer to the equator a rocket launch can get, the greater the speed boost it will ...
How to be environment-friendly during periods
Use menstrual cups, biodegradable sanitary napkins or organic tampons to ensure you are environment-friendly during menstruation, suggest experts.
Realise perils of plastic: Noida MLA Pankaj Singh
Noida MLA Pankaj Singh visited various places here on World Environment Day and stressed on the need to ensure strict implementation of the ban on polythene and raise awareness about the "perils of using plastic". Accompanied by Noida Authority officials, Singh Wednesday visited Harola village in Sector 5, Sector 50 and 62 and Barola village. The MLA interacted with the locals and took stock of the sanitation situation and water clogging issues. "There is a need for officials to ensure stricter implementation of the ban on polythene and raise adequate awareness about it and people also need to realise perils of using plastic," Singh tod PTI. He also asked people to do their bit in reducing use of plastic and ensuring its proper disposal. "People, on their part, should also resolve to reduce the use of plastic and its random disposal," Singh said. He further said monsoon would soon arrive in the mainland and there have been complaints of clogging in city drains. "The focus now is to ...
Hindustan Zinc to revive Fatehsagar lake in Udaupur
Hindustan Zinc on Wednesday announced an initiative to revive the iconic Fatehsagar lake in Udaipur to mark the World Environment Day. "Under the month long project, Fatehsagar Lake will be desilted by 22.5 lakh cubic meter, thus paving the way for long term water solution in the region and conserving the local flora and fauna," the firm said in a release here. The company said it has already set up 20 million litres per day (MLD)Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) in Udaipur to address the issue of sewage dumping and its capacity will be increased to 60 MLD, which will treat more than half of the sewage generated by the entire city.
Another tiger attack reported in Madhya Pradesh
After a youth in the Seoni district of Madhya Pradesh was attacked by a tiger on June 1, another incident of the tiger attack on Tuesday near the Paraspani village in the same district has been reported.
Delhi Metro becomes India's first project to receive power from waste-to-energy plant
Continuing its efforts to establish an environment-friendly network, the Delhi Metro has become the first ever project in the country to receive power generated from a waste-to-energy plant.The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) said it has started receiving 2 MW power from a 12 MW capacity waste-to-energy plant set up in Ghazipur."DMRC is receiving the power since the beginning of this month from this facility which is being utilised at the Vinod Nagar Receiving Sub-station (RSS) for meeting the operational requirements of Pink Line of Delhi Metro," said a press statement issued on Tuesday."DMRC will take approximately 17.5 million units per annum from this plant. However, the energy offtake will depend upon the actual generation of the plant," it said.The waste-to-energy plant set up by East Delhi Waste Processing Company Limited (EDWPCL) is based on a Public Private Partnership (PPP) involving the Delhi government and East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC), besides the ...
Chief Minister Yogi plants saplings on World Environment Day
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wendesday planted saplings at his residence here on the occasion of World Environment Day, which also coincided with his birthday.This year's theme for the World Environment Day is -- an environment free from air pollution.Speaking to ANI, Chief Minister Yogi said: "Protection of humans in the world is only possible through a clean environment.""It is very important that along with the government and various other organisations, even common citizens take the initiative to keep the environment clean," he said.Yogi said the forestation is the only medium through which one can wish for a brighter future for the coming generations."On this World Environment Day, I congratulate the entire 23 crore people of Uttar Pradesh and I urge them to take a resolution towards planting 23 crore trees in the state. It is a big but necessary goal," he said.
Babul Supriyo highlights the need of eliminating pollution on World Environment Day
Union Minister of State for Environment Babul Supriyo on Wednesday spoke of the necessity of saving the environment through small but significant efforts."India is one of the few countries in the world where forest land has expanded vastly. But we are definitely not doing enough to prevent pollution and save the atmosphere. There are so many cities which have a dangerous level of PM 2.5. Therefore, one of the very few natural processes to eradicate pollution is saving the trees and fostering the green area of our country," he said on the occasion of World Environment Day.Underlining the fact that forest area emits enormous oxygen which cannot be procured from any other source, said, "Whenever all the roads that we construct under the MPLAD fund in Asansol are concretized, I urge people to grow small plants in front of their main house doors. Some people have done it, some have not."Prakash Javedkar, Supriyo's senior in the ministry, on Wednesday launched the #Selfiewithsapling ...
Environmental issues need to be treated on par with political ones: Rahul Gandhi
Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday stressed the need for treating environmental issues on par with political ones, while stating that environmental destruction has reached a critical point today.Taking to social media platform - Facebook - to share his concerns on the World Environment Day, Gandhi said: "Till we make environmental issues, political issues, they won't get the importance they deserve. This World Environment Day, let's get together and commit to doing just that."The Congress president said that "environmental destruction has reached a critical point today and there might be "no turning back" if the people failed to make amends today."Mankind's insatiable lust for power and wealth has speeded up the pace of environmental destruction, like never before in the history of our planet. We're at a tipping point, from which if we don't reverse the environmental degradation we are causing, there may be no turning back," he said."There is now enough scientific evidence ..
Akhilesh Yadav, Ram Naik and Dinesh Sharma celebrate Eid and World Environment Day
Uttar Pradesh Governor Ram Naik, Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma and former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday attended prayers at the Eidgah here on the occasion of Eid-Ul-Fitr.Extending his Eid wishes, Yadav said, "I have got the opportunity to congratulate everyone from this Eidgah again. I have been coming here for a very long time."All three leaders were also seen celebrating World Environment Day by planting saplings.As the day was being observed as World Environment Day, Yadav talked about the need to protect the environment and said,"I think the land is bigger than our own mother and we should take to give a protective and healthy environment to next generation. Today, we should take an oath to protect our "Ganga-Jamuni Tehjeeb".