A study by Toxics Link, an environmental research and advocacy non-profit identified 20 e-waste processing units in Hyderabad operating with impunity without safeguards. These hotspots house over 5,000 illegal e-waste processing units directly and indirectly, employing over 50,000 people. The sheer scale of the violation of environmental norms highlights the failure of the system, especially […]
Category: Environment & Pollution
Is ‘Puranapul Darwaza’ – A Symbol Of ‘Ganga-Jamuni Culture’ Losing Sheen In Hyderabad?
Hyderabad city is known for many stone walls, which were brought down during the Mughal conquest. There were new ones constructed in their place during the Qutub Shahi rule. Many of these walls were destroyed during the Musi floods in the year 1908 and Puranapul Darwaza is one such wall that had survived. aIt was […]
Don’t Sell ‘Coronavirus Masks’ At ‘Exorbitant Cost’ Telangana Govt Warns Medical Shops
After lot of uproar on social media on high rates selling of Coronavirus masks in Hyderabad. Telangana Health Ministry initiated to conduct raids on stores to ensure that the sale of masks isn’t hiked. The clear warning notice issued to all medical outlets in the state. Telangana Health Minister Etala Rajender announced a crackdown on […]
Why Truckers Are Overworked, Underpaid With No Healthcare Facility?
One of a experienced truck driver of Telangana – Akula Lingaiah, aged 45, has been driving a truck since 10 years, criss-crossing 16 states across India. Quite often, he drives for days without a break to earn a good bonus. “My best record is driving non-stop for three days without any rest,” said Lingaiah, a […]
How Historic Musi River ‘Being Encroached’ In Hyderabad?
Armed with satellite images of the Musi River in Hyderabad over a period of five years between 2014 and 2019, a social activist wrote to the Chief Justice of Telangana Raghavendra Singh Rathore seeking his intervention to save the river from encroachment. Satellite images show how over the course of a few years the dumping […]
How ‘Manual Scavenging’ Dissappeared With Mini Sewer Jetting Machines In Hyderabad?
Hyderabad has achieved quite a bit with 136 mini sewer jetting machines, but a lot more can be done to ensure zero human intervention in cleaning clogged drains by top civic Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB). As an instance, when a 28-year-old Srinivas, driver of the mini sewer jetting machine in Marredpally, […]
Hyderabad On The Brink Of A Severe Sewage Management Crisis
Like many other critical environmental issues, the KCR government has also failed to tackle the enormous problem of sewage treatment in the state, exposing the urban and rural populations to grave health risks. The measures taken by the state government have proved to be grossly inadequate and huge volumes of untreated industrial and municipal waste […]
The ‘Dwindling Farmlands’ Of Anantapur District In Andhra Pradesh
Few districts can demonstrate how droughts can break farmers’ backs as Anantapur. The Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh anyway throws up a challenging landscape to agriculturists. Even among those four southern districts Anantapur has historically been the worst off.The district has been drought-prone for more than a century, rainfall data shows. The situation has only […]
Drastic Dip In Indian Biodiversity Has Now Become A Big Risk
Environmental and FAO experts warns about the proportion of livestock breeds at risk of extinction is increasing and plant diversity in farmers’ fields is decreasing at a drastic low. India’s biodiversity — the variety of life at the genetic, species and ecosystem levels — is under severe threat, says The State of the World’s Biodiversity […]
Deadly Consequenses Ahead As India’s 2-Million-Tonne ‘E-Waste Recycling’ Works
India generates more than two million tonnes of e-waste annually, and also imports undisclosed amounts of e-waste from other countries from around the world – including Australia. The world produces 50 million tonnes of electronic and electrical waste (e-waste) per year, according to a recent UN report, but only 20% is formally recycled. Much of […]