According to a Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) assessment, around 280 KLD of sludge was being collected against estimated generation of 657 KLD. With only 100 KLD treatment capacity, the existing facility can theoretically handle about 15% of daily generation.
BPCL and the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) have signed a partnership targeted at promoting the development of bioenergy solutions, waste-to-resource projects, and circular economy initiatives in India. Using waste-based resources more extensively could help lessen the heaviness on landfills and assist India's target to diversify its energy sources. The MoU offers an opportunity for industry knowledge and environmental research to combine their efforts in order to find solutions that can be applied beyond small-scale projects. The initiative is being launched as businesses are coming under increasing pressure to improve their resource efficiency and decrease their environmental impacts. The purpose of the alliance is to promote and expand the use of technologies capable of converting waste into valuable biofuels, materials, and other useful products. Biofuels could open up new possibilities for making use of agricultural and organic residues while maintaining economic value. The partnership's success will depend on how well promising solutions are turned into commercially viable projects throughout India.
President Droupadi Murmu honoured Manjari V Mahajan, principal of PM SHRI (CBSE) Senior Secondary School at Sujanpur Tihra in Hamirpur district, with the National Teachers’ Award in New Delhi on Saturday for her outstanding contributions to the fields of education and environmental conservation. Manjari was among 48 teachers selected nationwide to be honoured with this highest teacher award. Manjari was recognised not only as an outstanding educationist but also as a visionary leader who had been promoting environment conservation and innovation at the school level. She had earlier been awarded citations like the Environment Leadership Award, Waste Warrior Award, Green School Status from the Centre for Science and Environment while the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA) had included her in the list of the country’s select innovative school heads. Manjari, while talking to The Tribune, said that she believed in a practical approach to education and taking students beyond textbook knowledge. She added that she was happy to get the national recognition of her work that had brought more responsibilities to her. “My husband had always encouraged and guided me as and when I sought his advice,” she added. Her husband Vikram Mahajan is an Himachal Pradesh Administrative Service (HAS) officer, at present serving as the Secretary of the Himachal Pradesh Rajay Chayan Aayog in Hamirpur.
हिमाचल प्रदेश के शिक्षा जगत ने राष्ट्रीय स्तर पर एक बार फिर अपनी सशक्त उपस्थिति दर्ज कराई है। नई दिल्ली में आयोजित भव्य समारोह में भारत की राष्ट्रपति द्रौपदी मुर्मू ने हिमाचल प्रदेश की प्रख्यात शिक्षाविद् एवं पीएम श्री (सीबीएसई) राजकीय वरिष्ठ माध्यमिक विद्यालय, सुजानपुर टीहरा की प्रधानाचार्या मंजरी वी. महाजन को प्रतिष्ठित राष्ट्रीय शिक्षक पुरस्कार से सम्मानित किया। देशभर से चयनित 48 शिक्षकों में शामिल होकर उन्होंने हिमाचल प्रदेश का मान बढ़ाया है। किताबी ज्ञान से आगे, प्रकृति और समाज से जोड़ी शिक्षा मंजरी वी. महाजन की पहचान केवल एक कुशल प्रशासक के रूप में ही नहीं, बल्कि एक दूरदर्शी और नवाचारी शिक्षाविद् के तौर पर भी बनी है। उन्होंने शिक्षण पद्धति को कक्षाओं की चारदीवारी तक सीमित न रखते हुए विद्यार्थियों को प्रकृति, पर्यावरण संरक्षण और सामाजिक सरोकारों से जोड़ने पर विशेष जोर दिया। उनके नेतृत्व में विद्यालय में शिक्षा के साथ-साथ नवाचार और पर्यावरण जागरूकता को बढ़ावा देने के लिए विभिन्न प्रयास किए गए। एक प्रशासक के रूप में भी मंजरी वी. महाजन के खाते में कई राष्ट्रीय और राज्य स्तरीय उपलब्धियां दर्ज हैं। सेंटर फॉर साइंस एंड एनवायरनमेंट की ओर से उनके विद्यालय को लगातार दो बार ‘ग्रीन स्कूल’ का दर्जा प्राप्त हो चुका है। इसके अलावा राष्ट्रीय शैक्षिक योजना एवं प्रशासन संस्थान, नई दिल्ली ने उन्हें देश के चुनिंदा अभिनव स्कूल प्रमुखों की सूची में भी शामिल किया है। बालिका शिक्षा के क्षेत्र में उनके योगदान को भी विशेष पहचान मिली है। जिला प्रशासन की ओर से उन्हें ‘विजनरी लीडर इन गर्ल एजुकेशन’ के विशेष सम्मान से अलंकृत किया जा चुका है। उनकी कार्यशैली में शिक्षा, नेतृत्व, पर्यावरण संरक्षण और विद्यार्थियों के सर्वांगीण विकास का समन्वय देखने को मिलता है। मुख्यमंत्री ने दी बधाई मुख्यमंत्री ठाकुर सुखविंदर सिंह सुक्खू ने मंजरी वी. महाजन को राष्ट्रीय शिक्षक पुरस्कार मिलने पर बधाई दी। उन्होंने कहा कि शिक्षा के साथ-साथ नवाचार, पर्यावरण संरक्षण और उत्कृष्ट नेतृत्व के क्षेत्र में उनका योगदान अनुकरणीय है। उन्होंने कहा कि यह उपलब्धि हिमाचल प्रदेश के समस्त शिक्षक समुदाय के लिए गर्व का विषय है और इससे शिक्षकों को नई ऊर्जा एवं प्रेरणा मिलेगी।
To Siddharth Ghanshyam Singh, a plastic waste management expert at the Centre for Science and Environment, Delhi, regularising the packaging industry is our best chance to enhance recyclability without rejecting the material altogether. "Everybody is using different resins, colourings, and additives. All of this can be standardised," he says. Regulations can specify the permitted ways of manufacturing PET bottles, or LDPE packets, such that the permutations and combinations of plastics a recycler has to deal with reduces. "With standardisation, the acceptance of these materials at the end of their lives becomes better, because a recycler will also invest in equipment based on the kind of feedstock they receive." This allows plastic to retain its functions of protecting food, conveying product information, and marketing while giving a thrust to recycling. Siddharth points out that much stands between the idea and its implementation. "Such standardisation comes only with regulation, and at a cost to the polluter," he notes. This brings us to the question: what responsibility does a plastic producer have towards the plastic that enters the market, and later environment, because of them?
The recent catastrophic flash floods in Nepal is directly linked to decades of an engineering mindset which assumed that rivers and mountains could be re-engineered at will, environmentalist Sunita Narain said on Wednesday. Narain, the director general of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a Delhi-based think tank, said hydroelectric plants are being built back to back in the Himalayas and “what you are seeing today is the revenge of nature.” She was speaking at the inaugural session of the eighth International Conference on Sustainability Education, organised by the NGO Mobius Foundation. According to CSE analysis of the India Meteorological Department data, she said, an extreme weather event occurs in India roughly once a day. “Nature is telling us that the way we have been doing development clearly is not going to work in future,” she said. Narain recommended rethinking and reinventing the solution to impacts of climate change and environment-related issues. “The one thing we do not need more of is more reports and more incremental steps to fix what is today an existential crisis,” she said. Citing Delhi pollution as an example, the environmentalist remarked that a few electric vehicles cannot fix the issue. “Delhi’s air can be fixed only by completely reinventing the way we move, so that we can move without cars… (This) means an incredible augmentation of the public transport system so that we can walk, we can cycle, take a paratransit, take a metro, or take a bus,” she said.
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) and the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on biofuels, biomass resource utilisation, waste-to-resource solutions and circular economy initiatives. The partnership will explore opportunities across the biofuels value chain, including Compressed Biogas (CBG), with a focus on feedstock assessment, supply chain development, biomass and waste resource management, by-product utilisation, technology assessment and pilot and demonstration projects. The two organisations will also work on market development, capacity building and knowledge sharing to support the development of scalable bioenergy solutions. The collaboration comes as India steps up efforts to promote cleaner energy sources and sustainable management of resources. Under the MoU, BPCL and CSE will explore the assessment and utilisation of biofuel by-products, including Fermented Organic Manure (FOM), digestate, Bio-CO₂ and Distillers Dried Grains with Solubles (DDGS). The partnership will also examine sustainable value chains and potential carbon credit opportunities linked to bioenergy projects. BPCL Director (Marketing) Subhankar Sen said the partnership reflects the growing importance of collaboration and partnerships in scaling sustainable energy solutions. He said the two organisations would combine their respective strengths to pursue opportunities that could not be achieved independently.
New Delhi: Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) and the Centre for Science & Environment (CSE) have signed an MoU to collaborate on biofuels, biomass utilisation, waste-to-resource solutions and circular economy initiatives.
The recent catastrophic flash floods in Nepal were directly linked to decades of an engineering mindset which assumed that rivers and mountains could be re-engineered at will, environmentalist Sunita Narain said on Wednesday. Narain, the director general of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a Delhi-based think tank, said hydroelectric plants are being built back to back in the Himalayas and “what you are seeing today is the revenge of nature.”
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) and Centre for Science & Environment (CSE) on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore collaboration in biofuels, biomass resource utilisation, waste-to-resource solutions and circular economy initiatives. Under the MoU, the two organisations will identify and explore opportunities across the biofuels value chain, including Compressed Biogas (CBG). The collaboration will cover areas such as assessment of feedstock and development of supply chains, biomass and waste resource management, utilisation of by-products, technology assessment, pilot and demonstration projects, market development, capacity building and knowledge sharing. The partnership comes as India accelerates its transition towards cleaner energy and sustainable resource management. BPCL said the collaboration aims to combine its growing biofuels portfolio with CSE's expertise in research, policy advocacy, waste management and sustainable development. The two organisations will also explore opportunities to assess and utilise biofuel by-products, including Fermented Organic Manure (FOM), digestate, Bio-CO₂ and DDGS. The initiative will also look at developing sustainable value chains and potential carbon credit opportunities associated with bioenergy projects. Speaking on the occasion, Subhankar Sen, Director (Marketing), BPCL, said the partnership marked an important stage for the company as it looks to work more closely with other organisations to develop sustainable solutions. "This close collaboration with CSE represents a defining moment in our organization's life cycle. We are entering an era where organizationxal success is defined by collaboration and partnerships--combining our strengths to achieve what neither could do alone," Sen said. CSE's Director General said the organisation would bring its experience of working with municipalities and its understanding of the CBG ecosystem, while BPCL would contribute its industrial capabilities and execution strength. "I am highly confident that we will leverage our respective strengths. While CSE brings its deep expertise in working with municipalities and understanding the Compressed Biogas (CBG) ecosystem, BPCL brings the industrial capability and execution strength to scale these solutions," the Director General said. The MoU provides a broad framework for cooperation and knowledge exchange between BPCL and CSE. Specific projects and activities will be taken up through separate agreements, wherever mutually agreed, with such agreements defining the scope, responsibilities and mechanisms for implementation. The collaboration is expected to support the development of innovative and scalable bioenergy solutions by bringing together expertise in research, policy, waste management and industrial execution. (ANI)
The recent catastrophic flash floods in Nepal is directly linked to decades of an engineering mindset which assumed that rivers and mountains could be re-engineered at will, environmentalist Sunita Narain said on Wednesday. Narain, the director general of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a Delhi-based think tank, said hydroelectric plants are being built back to back in the Himalayas and "what you are seeing today is the revenge of nature." She was speaking at the inaugural session of the eighth International Conference on Sustainability Education, organised by the NGO Mobius Foundation. According to CSE analysis of the India Meteorological Department data, she said, an extreme weather event occurs in India roughly once a day.History "Nature is telling us that the way we have been doing development clearly is not going to work in future," she said. Narain recommended rethinking and reinventing the solution to impacts of climate change and environment-related issues.
The children on stage at India Habitat Centre opened the eighth International Conference on Sustainability Education (ICSE) with a song. Behind them sat educators, environmentalists, policy leaders and development practitioners; before them was the central question of the two-day gathering: can education prepare a generation not merely to understand the climate crisis, but to alter the systems that are producing it? The opening session of ICSE 2026, convened by the Mobius Foundation under the theme “Sustainability Education for Transformative Action,” made clear that the answer cannot lie in another chapter in a textbook or another campaign of awareness alone. The discussion placed education at the intersection of public transport, water, waste, livelihoods, public health, civic participation and the everyday choices that shape India’s development pathway. The most arresting intervention came from Sunita Narain, Director General of the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). Describing the condition of Delhi’s river, she said: “The Yamuna is dead; it has just not been officially cremated.” The remark was deliberately unsettling, but it was grounded in a larger argument: ecological collapse is the result of systems designed as though rivers, mountains and communities can be endlessly engineered around. Narain linked the recent disaster in the Nepal–Tibet region to decades of an “engineering mindset” that treated fragile landscapes as objects to be remade at will. The lesson, she suggested, is not to reject engineering or technology, but to restore ecological limits, local knowledge and public purpose to development decisions. She argued that Delhi’s air will not be cleaned merely by replacing petrol cars with electric ones; the decisive shift is to build public transport good enough that people do not need to depend on private cars in the first place. That distinction between a technical fix and systemic change became the intellectual centre of the inauguration. It also gives sustainability education a much more demanding task. Learners must be equipped to ask: Who benefits? Who bears the risk? What is the ecological cost? And which institutions must change?
At ICSE 2026, CSE’s Sunita Narain highlights India’s distinct environmentalism, urging reformed development practices, stronger regulatory institutions, and safer Himalayan projects to drive climate action
The disaster has meanwhile renewed scrutiny of development and environmental practices in the Himalayan region. Environmentalist Sunita Narain said the scale of the flooding was linked to decades of treating rivers and mountains as though they could be continually re-engineered, particularly through extensive hydropower development. The continuing recovery operation comes as authorities confront the destruction of transport links and the large number of people still missing, leaving the final human cost of the disaster uncertain.
जलवा यु संकट अब भवि ष्य का खतरा नहीं , बल्कि हमा रे सा मने खड़ी हकी कत है. नेपा ल में आई वि ना शका री बा ढ़ से लेकर भा रत में बढ़ती गर्मी , अचा नक हो ने वा ली भा री बा रि श और दि ल्ली की जहरी ली हवा तक, पर्या वरण में हो रहे बदला वों का असर सा फ दि खा ई दे रहा है. ऐसेऐ सेसमय में सि र्फ लो गों को पर्या वरण के बा रे में जा गरूक करना का फी नहीं है, बल्कि शि क्षा को सी धे का र्रवा ई से जो ड़ना हो गा . सम्मेलमे न में सेंटसेंर फॉ र सा इंसइं एंड एनवा यरनमेंटमें (CSE) की महा नि देशक और पद्मश्री से सम्मा नि त सुनीता नारायण नेनेपाल की हालिया त्रासदी काजि क्र करते हुए कहा कि जलवा यु परि वर्तन से इनका र करना अब वा स्तवि कता से मुंह मो ड़ने जैसा है उन्हों ने हि मा लयी इला कों में लगा ता र हो रहे नि र्मा ण, सड़क और हा इड्रो पा वर परि यो जना ओं पर सवा ल उठा ए. उनका कहना था कि इंसाइं सान को यह भ्रम छो ड़ना हो गा कि वह नदि यों और पहा ड़ों को अपनी सुविसुविधा के हि सा ब से फि र से बना सकता है.
नेपाल में आई प्राकृतिक आपदा के बाद हिमालयी क्षेत्र में विकास मॉडल और जलवायु परिवर्तन पर गंभीर सवाल उठ रहे हैं. सेंटर फॉर साइंस एंड एनवायरनमेंट की महानिदेशक सुनीता नारायण ने चेताया है कि प्रकृति के संकेतों को अनसुना करना भारी पड़ सकता है. समय रहते पर्यावरण संरक्षण और संतुलित विकास को प्राथमिकता देना आवश्यक है. नेपाल में हाल में आयी प्राकृतिक आपदा के बाद हिमालयी क्षेत्र में विकास के मौजूदा मॉडल और जलवायु परिवर्तन के कारण लगातार बढ़ रही प्राकृतिक आपदाओं पर सवाल उठ रहे हैं. समय के साथ हिमालयी क्षेत्र में अचानक बादल फटने, भूस्खलन और ग्लेशियर टूटने के कारण आने वाली बाढ़ के मामले अधिक हो रहे हैं. ऐसे में अब सभी को इस बाबत गंभीरता से विचार करना होगा कि इस आपदा से कैसे निपटा जाए. बुधवार को आयोजित 8वें इंटरनेशनल कांफ्रेंस ऑन सस्टेनेबिलिटी एजुकेशन को संबोधित करते हुए सेंटर फॉर साइंस एंड एनवायरनमेंट (सीएसई) की महानिदेशक सुनीता नारायण ने कहा कि प्रकृति लगातार संकेत दे रही है कि पर्यावरण से छेड़छाड़ नहीं हो. लेकिन इसे सुनने को कोई तैयार नहीं है. नेपाल में आयी त्रासदी से यह समझ लेना चाहिए कि जलवायु परिवर्तन का खतरा कितना गंभीर हो गया है. ऐसे में पर्यावरण संरक्षण और प्रकृति से छेड़छाड़ तत्काल बंद होनी चाहिए. दुनिया के अधिकांश देश अत्यधिक गर्मी, बेमौसम बेहताशा बारिश, बाढ़ और अन्य प्राकृतिक आपदा का सामना कर रही है. प्रकृति लगातार संदेश दे रही है कि विकास के मौजूदा मॉडल पर विचार किया जाना चाहिए. अगर समय रहते प्रकृति के संदेश पर अमल नहीं किया गया तो आने वाले समय में नेपाल जैसी आपदा कई जगहों पर देखने को मिलेगी और इसका स्वरूप और भयावह हो सकता है. हिमालय में संतुलित विकास समय की मांग सुनीता नारायण ने कहा कि हिमालयी क्षेत्र में हो रहे विकास कार्य और जलविद्युत परियोजनाओं की उपयोगिता पर विचार करना होगा. हिमालयी क्षेत्र में विकास के अंधाधुंध निर्माण और नदियों के प्राकृतिक प्रवाह को रोकने का आने वाले समय में गंभीर खामियाजा भुगतना पड़ सकता है. हिमालय के क्षेत्र काफी संवेदनशील होते है और यहां विकास स्थानीय भौगोलिक स्थिति के अनुसार संतुलित होना चाहिए. विकास होना चाहिए लेकिन पर्यावरण की अनदेखी कर नहीं. भारत में जलवायु परिवर्तन के कारण चरम मौसम की घटना सामान्य होती जा रही है. गर्मी ऐसी पड़ रही है कि लोगों का सड़क पर निकलना मुश्किल होता जा रहा है. कहीं बहुत अधिक बारिश, बाढ़ और अन्य प्राकृतिक आपदा के कारण लोगों का जीवन प्रभावित हो रहा है. इसी तरह शहरों में प्रदूषण लगातार बढ़ रहा है और यह बड़ी स्वास्थ्य समस्या बन रही है. प्रदूषण से निपटने के लिए सार्वजनिक परिवहन को बढ़ावा देना होगा और जीवन जीने के तरीके में बदलाव लाना होगा. प्रकृति के साथ तालमेल बनाकर चलना होगा और प्रकृति के अनुकूल विकास को बढ़ावा देने के तरीकों पर विचार करना होगा.