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The new solid waste management rulebook has teeth but is not the magic pill for India’s waste crisis

Much of the governance challenges of waste management in India centres around the fact that even somewhat decent rules fall ...

Poor waste management: NGT pulls up Sirhind civic body, flags lax recovery of ₹1.29-cr penalty

In its proceedings on April 24, the NGT took note of an affidavit filed by the Punjab Pollution Control Board, which detailed ...
MoneylifeOpinion

India’s New Waste Management Rules: A Watershed Reform That Must Not Be Wasted

The statistics are numbing: 1.85 lakh tonnes of solid waste generated every single day, barely two-thirds of it collected, ...
Mathrubhumi English

Waste disposal: More work for Panchayat members; Provision for legal action against officials

Thiruvananthapuram: Under the new solid waste management rules, responsibilities of elected representatives in local bodies ...
Asian News International

New solid waste management rules to come into force from April 1

New Delhi [India], January 28 (ANI): The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has notified the Solid Waste Management (SWM) Rules, 2026, superseding the Solid Waste Management ...
Indiatimes

In sweeping order, NGT calls out state-wide flouting of solid waste disposal rules

Bhopal: Taking strong exception to continued flouting of Solid Waste Disposal Rules-2016 in Bhopal and all across Madhya Pradesh despite several directives of the NGT and courts, the central bench of ...