Weekly environmental information roundup from throughout totally different media networks for Week 25 (16 to 22 June) 2025.
1. IMD approves cloud seeding pilot project
The India Meteorological Division has permitted Delhi’s pilot undertaking on cloud seeding geared toward mitigating air air pollution and all of the preparations are full, Delhi Surroundings Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa mentioned on Wednesday.
2. Delhi merely spent 1/3rd funds received under NCAP to fight air pollution
Delhi, one of the vital polluted cities in India, has used lower than one-third of the funds it acquired underneath the Nationwide Clear Air Programme, based on authorities information.
3. Delhi needs ₹4,500 cr more to meet targets under National Clean Air Programme
Delhi would require over ₹4,500 crore in extra funds to fulfill its long-term targets underneath the Nationwide Clear Air Programme, officers have mentioned, whilst the town struggles with underutilisation of funds and a sluggish tempo of implementation.
4. 218 end-of-life vehicles impounded, 11,157 challans issued
Delhi Surroundings Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Sunday knowledgeable that 218 end-of-life autos had been impounded and 11,157 air pollution challans issued throughout the town within the final 48 hours to curb air pollution within the metropolis.
5. Delhi deploys automatic misting systems to fight air pollution
Delhi surroundings minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa, who inspected the Computerized Misting System put in alongside Lodhi Street on Friday, mentioned comparable methods are being deployed on DDA-maintained roads in Dwarka and are underneath execution at Africa Avenue and Shanti Path.
6. Delhi’s ambitious dust-pollution control project to cost over Rs 2000 crore
A proposal to fight mud air pollution within the capital, permitted by the cupboard final month, is ready to price a complete of Rs 2,388 crore over the following ten years.
7. Zero-tolerance against discharge of untreated sewage & industrial waste in Delhi: Verma
The Delhi authorities has taken up the difficulty of air pollution very significantly and in one other current step in the direction of safeguarding the surroundings, Public Works Division and Water Minister Parvesh Verma has issued strict orders for fast motion in opposition to the unlawful discharge of untreated sewage and industrial waste throughout industrial and industrial institutions and all related institutions within the nationwide capital.
8. Water supply affected in parts of north, central, west Delhi: DJB
Low water ranges within the Yamuna have impacted water provide in components of north, central and west Delhi, the Delhi Jal Board mentioned in an advisory on Monday.
Epressing deep anguish over the order to both chop down or transplant 856 timber for the Common Pool Residential Challenge in Kasturba Nagar Part-II, Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee President Devender Yadav mentioned the transfer would trigger grave ecological hurt and additional erode the town’s already fragile inexperienced cowl.
Officers from Delhi’s forest and wildlife division say they’re carefully monitoring the leopard noticed in Jagatpur village close to East Delhi.
11. International Big Cat Alliance holds its first assembly in Delhi
The Worldwide Massive Cat Alliance held its first meeting at its Delhi headquarters on Monday.
12. Delhi: 100-feet mobile tower falls in Safdarjung, residents recall protests against installation
Residents of Safdarjung Enclave’s B2 block — which is amongst South Delhi’s plush residential colonies — awoke on Sunday to a nightmare: a 100-feet-tall mobile tower had collapsed close to the colony’s entrance, smashing by means of increase limitations, timber, and energy strains. The autumn occurred within the aftermath of heavy in a single day rain that lashed the Capital.
13. ‘Great Nicobar Trunk road will spur jobs, but sacrifice trees’
The Trunk Infrastructure Street that can minimize by means of Nice Nicobar Island and join all villages on it, will result in giant scale employment, facilitate enterprise and in addition make “unconnected areas on the route prosper,” the draft social impression evaluation examine for the undertaking claimed.
