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@sbasu_in On foot and pedal
Issue Date: May 15, 2012
Rent an e-scooter
Issue Date: Sep 30, 2011
Once famed as the bicycle city of India, Pune has lost that reputation because of rising number of motor vehicles. It can once again host a quiet and clean transportation system, albeit with a twist. The Maharashtra transport authority has approved a scheme under which Puneites can hire electric scooters that emit absolutely no exhaust gases.
Flawed, but accepted
Issue Date: Mar 15, 2011
A recent study by the Central Pollution Control Board has exonerated vehicles of being the worst polluters in Delhi and Mumbai. Instead, it has pinned down liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) as the biggest source of fine pollutants. Experts have contested the study, saying the findings are unsubstantiated and scientifically untenable. The study will set the basis for the post-2010 emissions standards for vehicles and fuels.
Pune metro rail on track
Issue Date: Jul 31, 2010
PUNE’S civic authorities are moving ahead with the metro rail project.
Brick kiln pollutes Pune outskirts
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2009
PEOPLE who purchased flats in Mohammadwadi in Pune’s outskirts over the past few years are ruing their decision to move out of the city. They are unable to breathe fresh air or go outdoors for walks because of a brick kiln that spews smoke next to their homes. An estimated 50,000 people living in and outside the 150-acre residential estate, developed by Nyati Builders, are affected.
14 km from Pune, its footprint
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2009
Villagers suffer the city's garbage. Relatives don't visit them, diseases do
Hanumant Bhandari is getting used to his speckled face. The 10-year-old student of a school on the outskirts of Pune was intrigued by the white
spots on his face and thighs when they first appeared a year ago. The spots disappear whenever he takes medicine, but reappear in no time.
The town farmers built
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2009
Faced with an encroaching city, old world farmers created--and now own--a new world town
Pune is clean
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2008
Because it sends its garbage to pollute a nearby village
SINCE 1983, all the municipal garbage from the city of Pune in Maharashtra has travelled 12 km to be dumped in the village of Urali-Devachi.
More than 1,000 tonnes each day. Spread across 43 hectares, the dump pollutes the area. Leachates contaminate the groundwater, rendering
For a green house
Issue Date: Oct 15, 2008
after Pune, which is reaping the benefits of an eco-housing scheme launched last year, Mumbai now can do the same. The decks stand cleared for the launch of an eco-housing scheme in Mumbai, which offers financial incentives to both builders and consumers.
Prepared by Pune-based Science and Technology Park and recently adopted by the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (mcgm), the scheme will certify green residential complexes, both new constructions and retrofitted buildings.
