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Habitat And Urbanisation

  • Transport chief revs up anti-emission drive

    Motorists will now have to produce their Pollution Under Contorl (PUC) certificates when they drive in to petrol pumps in Mumbai to tank up their vehicles. The "No PUC, No Petrol" campaign which is

  • HYda to revise twin cities master plan

    The Hyderabad urban development authority(Huda) on Tuesday said it would come out with a revised master plan for the twin cities and the nine surrounding municipalities based on latest land use data

    • 13/10/1999

  • DDA uses new technology

    For the first time, the Delhi Development Authority is using the hollow-block technology in construction of houses for the economically weaker sections. The hollow concrete block technology was first

  • UK expert to aid Calcutta restoration

    The city's long-neglected heritage buildings may finally have something to cheer about. The British government has appointed conservation expert John Raw as an advertiser to the Calcutta Municipal

  • Rs 600-croro World Bank fund for development of 10 cities

    The State government has designed a RS 600-crore World bank aided project for the provision and development of basic amenities in 10 cities in the State. Speaking at a press conference at Raichur

  • UN award

    The Mumbai-based National Slum Dwellers Federation has been selected for this year's prestigious Habitat scroll of honour awards. The award is given annually by the United Nations Centre for Human

    • 05/10/1999

  • Low cost housing project in Mumbai

    A low cost mass housing project at Goregaon in Mumbai is being developed by the Nagri Nivara Parishad (NNP) and is being constructed by B E Billimoria & Company in technical collaboration with Mascon

    • 09/07/1999

  • Kerala to introduce heritage legislation soon

    There's relief in sight for heritage lovers and art historians who have long been lamenting that Kerala's traditional timber houses are inexorably disappearing from the scene and its beautiful

    • 06/07/1999

  • Bengal puts on hold auto emission norms

    The West Bengal Government has put on hold its earlier decision to implement stricter emission norms for automobiles from July this year following threats of a State-wide strike issued by taxi, truck

  • Kodagu district tops list

    The first ever Human Development Report prepared for Karnataka using the latest methodology adopted by the United Nation's Development Programme(UNDP) show that north Karnataka districts of Belgaum,

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