All Services takes up suburban station cleaning
Scores of passengers who travel every day by suburban trains in Mumbai can now look forward to having some relief from stink and stench in the station premises. Continuing with…
Scores of passengers who travel every day by suburban trains in Mumbai can now look forward to having some relief from stink and stench in the station premises. Continuing with…
In the recent years there is a significant shift in handling solid waste with Municipal Corporations across the country adopting various models of disposing and recycling waste. Pondicherry Corporation has successfully adopted door-to-door collection, transportation and processing model. Coimbatore Corporation has adopted house-to-house collection model and outsourced secondary collection and processing to private parties under PPP mode. In certain other cities, the processing has been outsourced on PPP basis. Besides waste collection, various technologies like composting, bio-methanation/gasification or high-temperature incineration and waste-to-energy are being used for waste management. For example, the service provider in Coimbatore Corporation had started with compost plant, now they are seeking permission to put up a waste-to-energy plant at their own cost. Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagar Palike has forked out certain areas to be cleaned by sweeping machines. All Corporations are experimenting innovative methods to collect and treat waste. Ajit Patil, Secretary, Corporation of Cochin, in an exclusive interview with Clean India Journal, talks about how solutions to keep the city clean has been successfully implemented.
Karcher announces India subsidiary By establishing its fully-owned subsidiary in India in April this year, Alfred Karcher GmbH& Co. KG has been stepping up expansion of its countrywide dealer and…
In this centenary year 2011-12 of the civil aviation, India also takes pride of being the 9th largest market in the aviation world and in the forward march, it is expected to become one of the three largest markets in the world by 2020. With the air passenger traffic likely to cross over 300 million (domestic) & 100 million (international) by 2020, the Airport Authority of India is investing heavily in sprucing up Indian airports to meet world class standards. The Mangalore Airport with its newly constructed integrated terminal is leaving no stone unturned to match the cleaning standards of any international airport. On August 1, the cleaning of the new terminal was outsourced to Durga Facility Management Pvt Ltd for mechanized housekeeping services.
In an exclusive interview,
M R Vasudeva, Director-Airport Authority of India, Mangalore, explains to Mohana M the Airport’s plans to provide international standards to passengers.
Taking cognizance of the pathetic state of toilets in the Mantralaya building, the Chief Secretary, Maharashtra Government, has issued a circular on a clean up drive to improve the sanitation…
The Mysore City Corporation is targeting women to effectively handle the solid waste generated daily. The corporation took women leaders, including women corporators, to the sewage farm at Vidyaranyapuram, the…
British national Jodie Underhill, 35, is pledged to “leave nothing but footprints” as she leads a team of volunteers to set up waste disposal pits at Chamba district ahead of…
Chennai based East Coast Christian Matriculation Higher Secondary School in Neelankarai has won the Green Schools of India Award, 2011, for its active environmental conservation activities. The school has been…
Tonnes of garbage were recently removed in Chennai city as part of a massive cleaning drive announced by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa. During the cleanliness drive, 1884 metric…
It’s better to roll up the window while driving out of Howrah Station than to take the unbearable stench generating from piles of garbage, discarded & worn-out tyre, faeces, hotel…