Every degree rise in heat index resulted in 187 megawatt increase in electricity demand during COVID-19 lockdown, which was six per cent higher than in 2019, according to a new analysis.
Every degree rise in heat index resulted in 187 megawatt increase in electricity demand during COVID-19 lockdown, which was six per cent higher than in 2019, according to a new analysis.
Every degree rise in heat index resulted in 187 megawatt increase in electricity demand during COVID-19 lockdown, which was six per cent higher than in 2019, according to a new analysis.
नई दिल्ली। अभी तक हम गीला कचरा अलग, सूखा कचरा अलग के नियमों को पूरी तरह आत्मसात कर भी नहीं पाए थे कि अब कोरोना काल में जैविक चिकित्सीय अपशिष्ट ने नई चुनौतियों को जन्म दे दिया है। आलम यह है कि दिल्ली-एनसीआर में जितनी तेजी से संक्रमित मरीजों की संख्या बढ़ रही है उतनी ही तेजी से जैविक अपशिष्ट में भी इजाफा हुआ है। स्थिति का अंदाजा इसी से लगाया जा सकता है कि मई महीने की तुलना में अपशिष्ट 14 गुना तक बढ़ गया है। जैविक अपशिष्टं के निस्तारण के लिए शहर में दो कंपनी एसएमएस वाटर ग्रेस प्राइवेट लिमिटेड और बायोटिक वेस्ट सॉल्यूशन लिमिटेड हैं, जो प्रतिदिन क्रमश: 24 टन और 50 टन कचरे का निदान कर सकते हैं।
After a significant period of learning about social distancing and other precautionary measures related to COVID-19, people are now being wary of even commuting on the roads, and so, like every other activity, road travelling is also taking a new form.
State-run Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) has set up solar-powered smart classrooms in 122 government schools across the backward Yadgir district in north Karnataka, an official has confirmed.
A recent study shows that air pollution poses a threat not only to humans but to many other organisms of the world including our key pollinator, the honeybee. According to the World Health Organization, 9 of the 10 most polluted cities worldwide are now in India, making life difficult for the locals as well as the nearby wildlife. Pollution in the wild has been known to cause behavioral, neurological and reproductive deficits in animals, whether it be from the harmful particles in the air they breathe or contamination of food and water resources.
Pushback from the industry and a weak regulator has allowed deadly industrial trans fats to continue in the Indian food chain, says Amit Khurana of the CSE
The pandemic has ebbed, but only in our mind’s attention space, and this is extremely unfortunate. The virus is ravaging now and has spread across the country. It has gone beyond big cities to remote towns and villages, where there is not even a semblance of health care, forget ventilators. Now is when the impact is worse — people who have the infection are doubly, no, triply hit and hurt, devastated. They have no option but to go back to work. They cannot afford a lockdown.
New Delhi, Aug 9 (Prensa Latina) The government of the capital of India sanctioned the Electrical Vehicles Policy, which aims to make a quarter of all new vehicle registrations in this city batteryoperated by 2024, the media reported today.
Transport minister Kailash Gahlot said revising the road tax and levying a congestion fee are means devised by experts and officials to provide the funds required to push the demand for electric vehicles in the city by offering a variety of incentives.
NEW DELHI: Environment experts Friday welcomed the Delhi government notifying its Electric Vehicle Policy, but said implementation will be the key and suggested installing sufficient number of charging stations for it to become successful.
Environment experts Friday welcomed the Delhi government notifying its Electric Vehicle Policy, but said implementation will be the key and suggested installing sufficient number of charging stations for it to become successful. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Friday launched ''Delhi Electric Vehicle Policy'' under which his government will waive registration fee and road tax, and provide incentive of up to Rs 1.5 lakh for new electric cars in the national capital. Environment expert Vimlendu Jha said, “As a policy, electric vehicles sound very clean. But until and unless the supply of electricity is non-coal and non-thermal, it does not make much of a difference.”
For the past few months, there has been a public outcry over the draft Environment Impact Assessment Notification, 2020. Activists, environmental groups, biologists and students have claimed that the notification is “anti-people”, “anti-environment” and “pro-industries”.
Delhi traffic police control room records show that from May 20 — when public transport and public movement resumed in the city after restrictions were eased — to August 5, at least 15 arterial stretches have seen an increase in vehicular traffic.
NEW DELHI: The Public Works Department built cycle tracks across the city, only to see them taken over by shops and motorised two-wheelers. The Covid lockdown, however, heralded the return of bicycles on the road, to some extent because of the absence public transport. After the capital opened up, Delhiites are still pedalling on short-distance trips, leaving traffic experts to believe that this is the ideal time to induct bicycles and electric vehicles into the public transport system.