Urban India’s parking woes: an overview
Vehicular congestion and insufficient parking facilities are significant emerging challenges for India’s mega and metropolitan cities, severely impairing mobility. Although curtailed by constitutional
Ahmedabad (T)
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Ahmedabad district tree cover grows at 13%
Tree cover in the district has grown by 13% in the last decade. The number of trees in the district-58.52 lakh in 2003-has increased to 66.41 lakh according to the tree count taken up earlier this year.
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No malaria, dengue death in govt hospitals: State to HC
The state government on Monday submitted the status report to the Gujarat high court on the action taken by authorities to prevent diseases during monsoon. The government has said that no death due to
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Walled city not moved by BRTS
Despite The Expansion, User Numbers Not Increasing The BRTS has had a rather empty beginning in the walled city. The service is failing to draw large numbers of passengers. On the stretch from Ellisbridge to Sarangpur, an average of about 800 passengers board these buses every day.
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Sliver of hope for BRTS as govt orders project report
The City’s hopes of getting a Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) may have floundered in red tape, but the State government has offered Bangaloreans a fresh ray of hope that BRTS can be made a reality.
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Ahmedabad district gains 13% tree cover
Around six lakh trees are thriving within the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) limits. The district, meanwhile, has 66.4 lakh trees, an increase of about 13% as compared to 2008-09 when there were
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Civic body to clean Sabarmati riverbed
The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) will conduct a thorough bio-remediation of the Sabarmati riverfront in the coming months. This process involves cleansing the river of biological and chemical
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Mineral water plant on anvil
Heard of any municipal corporation operating a mineral water bottling plant before? The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) now plans to set up a mineral water plant near its Kotarpur sewage treatment
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Gujarat HC dismisses PIL opposing BRTS on Ashram Road
Gujarat high court has turned down a PIL against the proposed plan on part of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation to ply the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) on the Ashram Road of the city. The bench of Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice J B Pardiwala commented that the court cannot decide in which area the local buses should be plied. The court's view led the petitioner to withdraw his PIL.
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PIL opposes BRTS on Ashram Road
A PIL has come to be filed in the Gujarat high court against the proposed plan on part of the city body to ply BRTS on Ashram Road. Advocate Kiran Pandit has filed the petition, claiming that the idea of Bus Rapid Transit System has been a flop one in western countries, and elected members and bureaucrats have been imposing the failed model on citizens.
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No end to abuse of Sabarmati, waste still dumped in river
AHMEDABAD: After spending lakhs over cleaning the Sabarmati river bed in recent months, insensitive citizens continue to throw garbage into it in the name of religious paraphernalia. Plastic bags today