Simply Put: Head in the sand

Municipal expenditure declined from 2012 to 2018: RBI report

Report finds mismatch between functions & finances of ULBs

CAG finds irregularities in Chhattisgarh local bodies

Delays in holding polls, no meetings for several urban local bodies, finds audit

Green protocol not being followed in Odisha local body polls: Activists

Candidates used non-biodegradable election materials such as flex posters and also nailed campaign materials to trees, claim activists

BMC’s 24X7 decentralised ‘war rooms’ helping stem COVID-19 cases in Mumbai

Down To Earth reports on the arrangements put in place by India’s richest civic body to help save lives  

Use app to monitor COVID-19 biomedical waste, SC to civic bodies

The CPCB had come up with the app in May, following directions from the National Green Tribunal; it was not mandatory for municipal corporations …

Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (November 2-6, 2020)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal