Experts have pointed out that West Bengal pollution control board’s recent plan to put up a mega green wall to stop air pollutants entering the state from outside, the execution of which may run into several crores and take years, may not serve its purpose. According to sources, the proposed bio-shield will be put up
The model of ‘graded response action plan’ (GRAP), announced by the Bengal environment minister Manas Bhunia recently, to counter air pollution in Kolkata and five more polluted cities in the state has already been “scrapped” in Delhi where forecasting based GRAP model is presently followed; observed experts. “The model of GRAP, that is imposed when
India tops the list of countries when the rise of carbon emission is considered over the last year, shows a report released in COP 27 at Sharm El Sheikh on Friday. The 2022 carbon budget, released by Global Carbon Project, shows that, despite repeated warning from the experts to cut down greenhouse emission at the
West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) has given clearance to a unit from Maheshtala in south 24 parganas, M T Industries, to manufacture green fireworks in late September which is owned by a local Trinamul councillor. The unit, so far, is the only one being cleared by the green regulatory body. The permission was provided
Translated from remarks of Mayor’s during the climate pledge taking program in Kolkata Municipal Corporation on September 14, when Kolkata became the first city in India and biggest in south Asia to express formal support for non-fossil fuel driven future and increasing climate resilience; joining the list that already has more than 70 global cities
A new global report has ranked Delhi as one of the global toppers within most populous cities when gross mortality caused by toxic PM 2.5 pollutants is considered; but Mumbai leads the metro cities in India when the rise of PM 2.5 linked deaths is assessed over the last decade. PM 2.5 is the ultrafine
Kolkata continues to be choked with foul air despite getting a windfall for pollution control; environmentalists claim serving political interest is the trigger behind the city’s investment in non-priority sectors linked to air pollution control. Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has received over 536 crores from union government since 2019 to combat air pollution in the
Heap of endangered turtles, found dead in an outfall canal last Wednesday at Medinipur around 50 km away from Digha and initially believed to have killed by toxic effluent released by adjacent rice mill, were actually thrown into the canal by traffickers when the animals died in transit; claimed local police on Friday evening after
A senior ground water expert from Kolkata has opined that Kolkata Municipal Corporation should immediately stop withdrawing underground water in Bowbazar and adjacent zone within central Kolkata to halt further subsidence and collapse of houses in the area being triggered by an accident catered by East – West metro construction first in 2019; and again,
A coincidence, as loud as one can be. On last Monday hardly few hours after Eastern Zonal bench of National Green Tribunal observed that no effective action has been taken by police to control noise pollution in Kolkata and rest of West Bengal; CPM MP and former Mayor of Kolkata Bikash Bhattacharya violated noise norms