Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation Setting New Standards in Urban Cleanliness
Vasai-Virar is making strides in urban waste management, with frequent garbage collection from commercial and residential areas, and extensive street... Read More
Hearts Out For Noida: A Chakachak Valentine
HCL Foundation – the corporate social responsibility arm of HCL Technologies – had partnered with NOIDA Authority to install over... Read More
Editor’s Page July 2018
[box type=”shadow” ] [/box] This issue is dedicated to housekeeping, especially to all the hardworking housekeepers in the hospitality industry... Read More
Hyderabad seeks RFP for garbage collection
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has issued an RFP (Request For Proposal) from private parties for the maintenance, upkeep... Read More
NGOs engaged for waste collection in Bhopal
In an attempt to improve waste management, Bhopal Municipal Corporation has roped in NGOs that provide the manpower for door... Read More
Railways to develop track cleaning equipment
Indian Railways is planning to develop a wet and dry heavy duty vacuum cleaner that can collect the garbage from... Read More
BMC scheme to keep city slums clean
In order to ensure better garbage collection services in slums, the civic standing committee has passed the resolution for a... Read More
Designing Bins
The basic application of bins is directly associated with garbage or waste collection. But bins are also used for storage in industries like food and textile. Types of bins vary with its applications in various industries. Today, the characteristics of a bin are also influenced by the ambience and aesthetics of its surroundings. Shardul Nautiyal interacts with a few of the suppliers to know all about bins.
UV resistant garbage bins
• Time Technoplast Ltd has launched Dumpo Dome Lid garbage bins in different capacities with attributes like corrosion free, high... Read More
Sanitation drive
The Guntur Municipal Corporation is undertaking sanitation drives in all 50 divisions involving the departments of Public Health, Rural Water... Read More
Belgaum City Corporation; Towards creating wealth out of waste
With a total road length of 758km, 58 wards and a population of about five lakhs, Belgaum is the biggest district in Karnataka. By virtue of having some good tourist spots like Gokak falls, Veer Soudh and Belgaum fort, the city has a large floating population. Municipal Commissioner Priyanka Francis talks about the various programmes adopted towards effective management of waste in the city.
WTERT India to discuss Municipal waste management policies
The brainstorming session of WTERT India noted that the status of MSW management in India has not improved substantially despite... Read More
Mangalore Corporation on Waste Management strategies
In an initiative to better address the waste collection and recycling, the Mangalore City Corporation is working towards implementing a... Read More
A not-so-golden Amritsar visit
India has many heritage spots which attract tourists, but at many of these places one has to walk through a pile of garbage, including the Golden temple
Corporation gives approval for outsourcing waste disposal
In order to address the issue of garbage collection and disposable operations in all zones other that Zone IX, Zone... Read More
BSCs sought for Janshatabdi Express train
West Central Railway is planning to outsource on board house keeping services for 12059/12060 Janshatabdi Express train of coaching depot,... Read More
Panaji to purchase garbage compactors
The Panaji City Corporation is purchasing three refuge garbage compactors of seven cubic metre capacity in the first phase and... Read More
Visakhapatnam Towards a bin-less City
Visakhapatnam or Vizag, the second biggest city in Andhra Pradesh,is the first in the country to have taken e-governance initiatives in early 2000. Today, many municipalities in India have replicated Visakhapatnam’s e-governance model. Not just e-governance but its overall performance in environmental sustainability has helped the Corporation bag the prestigious Euro India’s Environmentally Sustainable Cities Award (ESCA) in 2011. These days Greater Vishakapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) is busy with another ambitious project that involves segregation of garbage at source. Municipal Commissioner B Ramanjaneyulu explains to CIJ, GVMC’s solid waste management project and the Corporation’s efforts in making a ‘bin-less’ city.
Vijayawada on disposal of solid waste
Municipal Commissioner G. Ravibabu, Vijayawada has instructed the officers concerned to prepare a plan for the removal of municipal solid... Read More
Quilon station goes for mechanised cleaning
Southern Railway plans to adopt mechanised cleaning at the Quilon railway station (Thiruvananthapuram Division) by outsourcing services to a cleaning... Read More
