Delhi Metro is going green..

The Delhi metro will Go- Green for its III phase. In III phase a monitoring committee will measure air quality, and water and noise level on a set schedule. Water pollution monitoring will be carried out at least four times a year, air pollution will  be done twice a week and noise level monitoring will be done once a week.

Green Delhi

The first scientific landfill site in the city will be functional from the next month. Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is going to make Narela – Bawana landfill site operational. The set up of this landfill site will be helpful to bring down burden on the three site – Ghazipur, Okhla and Bhalswa. This project will be completed in two phases. In first phase the solid waste will be disposed scientifically in next phase dumped garbage will be converted into energy. In this site 1,300 metric tones of waste will be sorted and will be used to obtain refuse derived fuel (RDF) for industrial use, manure and recyclable material.  

            The cost of the project in first phase will be seventy crore rupees and in second phase will be three seventy eight crore rupees. The site will have facility for material recovery; treating leach ate and trapping harmful gases and to make RDF.

BIO REMEDIATION PROJECT: BUDDHA NALA LUDHIANA

Indian ministry of Environment and Forestry has decided to launch in situ bio- remediation project in Buddha Nala in Ludhiana. This project will stop the industrial and domestic effluent discharge in the Buddha Nala.

The MoEF will try to create filters trough which untreated water will be passed. The effluent will be treated with microbial consortium. The treatment of effluent with microbial consortium will  be helpful to reduce BOD “Bio – chemical oxygen demand” and COD “chemical oxygen demand”.

            The MoEF is expecting to reduce BOD by 40% along with foul odor. In this project only microbes will be used and there will be no use of genetically modified organisms. Buddha Nala project is the largest bioremediation project of our country. The cost of the whole project will be funded by National River Conservation Directorate, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India

Big Cat back to the scene

Big Cat back to the scene

There is a big reason to be happy for the people associated with the wild life in India. Tiger population has increased 12 percent form 2006 to 2010.According to the 2010 Tiger census, which was released were approximately 1,706 which includes about 70 in the marshes of the Sunderbans, which was never surveyed scientifically. The report said that most of the tiger were stable within protected areas. Even outside areas number was increased.

Tiger’s numbers are threatened in Panna Tiger reserve, Kanha and Pench. Environment minister Jairam Ramesh said that “central India has the most losses. Significant areas where numbers have come down include northern Andhra Pradesh, Adilabad- Khaman, east Godavari, Hosahangabad and Kanha.