The rise in COVID-19 daily new cases and daily new deaths compelled many state governments to impose local level lockdowns during April-May 2021. As of 20th April, 2021, partial lockdowns were noticed in 10 states across the country and complete lockdown was imposed in Delhi. As of 8th May, 2021, nearly the entire country was under complete lockdown as a result of either partial lockdowns and night curfews or complete...
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Surat's underground garbage system shows way to Delhi and other big cities -Dipak K Dash
-The Times of India SURAT/ NEW DELHI: Surat is showing the way to Delhi and other big cities that are struggling to manage garbage spilling out of ‘dhalaos’ and filling the air with foul smell. The city’s municipal body has installed 43 underground garbage bins, each of which can contain up to 1.5 tonnes of waste as a part of the Smart City Mission and these are fitted with sensors to...
More »Tiruppur shows how it's done: on controlling industrial pollution -T Ramakrishnan
-The Hindu The court-ordered clean-up in the textile town has managed to mitigate ill-effects of industrial pollution to a large extent. A similar remediation effort, involving the government and stakeholders, is needed in other parts of Tamil Nadu, where groundwater has been so contaminated that farming is not possible anymore On a sunny June morning, two men are spotted fishing close to the Orathupalayam dam in Erode district. A rather ordinary act in...
More »Surat Textile Traders on Indefinite Strike Against GST -Damayantee Dhar
-TheWire.in The traders have incurred a loss of over Rs 5000 crore in the last 22 days, while 15 lakh labourers have lost their jobs due to the shutdown. Surat: On July 8, Surat, the economic capital of Gujarat, witnessed an unprecedented protest against the new tax regime, the Goods and Service Tax (GST). Texile traders swarmed a three-km stretch on the Ring Road, which holds city’s main textile market, on a...
More »40,000 cloth artisans in Ludhiana stare at job loss as they fall out of GST chain -Sumeer Singh
-Hindustan Times Rehman, who is in the embroidery business for more than 15 years, is one of thousands of artisans who are unable to get work as they did not register under GST, as is required now, and neither have textile firms that sent them cloth to work on. Ludhiana: Tucked away in the outskirts of the industrial city of Ludhiana, in New Kundan Puri area, embroiderer Abdul Rehman is sitting...
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