The Orissa High Court has directed the State Government to expeditiously dispose of the huge backlog of pendency in land cases by holding the revisional courts for a minimum period of three days in a week.
At a time when controversy over alleged scams of biomedical wastes at R G Kar Hospital are making headlines, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation is considering plans to set up its own medical waste treatment plant for proper disposal of such wastes.
India must take chemical safety and waste disposal issues very seriously and develop more cogent ideas for underground disposal, considering its technical barriers, legal
environment, waste characterization and conditioning. This includes assessment of isolation of chemical waste safely from the environment and the development of sophisticated eco-friendly technologies