FSSAI has issued draft guidelines on wholesome and nutritious food availability in school that would help control junk food consumption among school children in India
The capital cannot solve its problems without local area solutions
CSE conducts training for municipal officials from 10 cities of Andhra Pradesh
Warns this can lead to gross underestimation of pollution load from trucks and weaken action
Date: October 2, 2015
Moradabad gets 50 per cent of all PCBs used in India, and 90 tonnes of e-waste everyday
Down to Earth finds evidence of a growing crisis in the state – rise in diseases and poor state of health care system
NEW DELHI, September 23: Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has analysed the Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kalyan Yojna (PMKKKY) in the context of the recently notified rules on the District Mineral Foundation (DMF). The analysis has been published in a CSE factsheet and is available here: http://www.greenclearancewatch.org/themes/phw/images/PM-Khanij-Kheshtra-Yojna-and-DMF.pdf
Centre has notified Rules on DMF, which require 10 per cent and 30 per cent royalty as contribution to DMFs; it has also instituted Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kalyan Yojna (PMKKKY)
44 per cent of India’s districts are facing rain deficit
CSE welcomes Delhi government’s draft solar policy which makes installation of solar panels on government-owned, commercial and residential buildings mandatory.
FSSAI has cut down the maximum permitted trans fats in fats and oils. At 5 per cent, the new standards are half of the earlier limit and will come into force by August 2016
Says it misleads policy action on emissions standards and technology roadmap for CNG and diesel buses in India
Delhi has mandated recycled products from construction and demolition (C&D) waste in all future contracts for building works and road works to be taken up by the Delhi government and its agencies
A committee on junk food and childhood obesity set up by the Ministry of Women and Child Development has recommended ban on junk foods in school canteens and within 200 meters of school