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
Vehicular congestion and insufficient parking facilities are significant emerging challenges for India’s mega and metropolitan cities, severely impairing mobility. Although curtailed by constitutional
Pandurang Mhaske Municipal commissioner Jairaj Phatak shot down Shiv Sena executive chief Uddhav Thackeray's appeal to cut the water connection in highrises and construction sites in the city. In view of the water cut in the city, Thackeray had recently appealed to the state government asking them to cut the water connection in highrises as well as the construction sites. This came in response to minister Ajit Pawar's demand that the water supply for agricultural purposes should be stopped.
Mumbai, July 22 Maharashtra Nature Park Dy Director says newly developing habitat should be made safe, secure for the birds For nearly a month, a vast stretch of the much-abused Mithi river
The 32-km elevated second phase of the metro rail project which will connect Charkop and Mankhurd via Bandra will have 27 stations. After the state government okayed the project, the Centre accorded its in-principal approval to the line in February 2007. Two years ago, the cost of the project was pegged at Rs5,616 crore. Now, it has been estimated that the project would cost almost Rs8,400 crore. The deadline for the project is 2012. The Ambani brothers, it has been learnt, will bid for the project.
Mumbai, July 20 As Asia's largest slum readies for makeover, residents of an
The growth of Indian cities is chaotic at best It is a migration that is unstoppable. throughout Asia, including India, the wave of people moving to cities will only swell as years go by.
Mumbai, July 18 The tree census 2008 figures may show that the green cover in the city has doubled over the decade, but several tree authority members have contended that 19 lakh trees are inadequate for a city with a population of one crore. A city bursting with development, where highways, malls and skyscrapers are mushrooming everywhere, 19,17,844 trees are still short, they assert.
Indian policymakers are fascinated by Shanghai and they seek to develop Mumbai into another Shanghai. This vision is based entirely on the fascination with the Shanghai/Pudong skyline, without any substantive understanding of or facts about the growth in the Chinese city. True, there has been rapid growth in Shanghai, but most of this growth has been to the benefit of corporations (public sector and foreign controlled), little has gone to the city's households. Since the late 1990s, the poor of Shanghai have in fact seen a relative decline in incomes vis-
Mumbai, July 16 With the organised efforts of the city's Tree Authority, several rare trees in the city are set to get nameplates. These trees will get a bright green metal plates identifying them by their common and scientific names, in English as well as Marathi.
Mumbai, July 16 Park authorities happy but also maintain this is just preliminary round, chief conservator of forests and wildlife experts will do final scrutiny Twenty-four leopards and a five per cent increase in the animal count: reads the preliminary wildlife census report for 2008 released by the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), and from the looks of it, it seems bright.
Mumbai, July 16 MMRDA is waiting for Railways to finalise Churchgate-Virar elevated tracks proposal After a series of flip-flops on how to go about the first phase of the Metro rail in the city, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has now put the third route, to run from Colaba to Bandra, on hold indefinitely. The reason: The route would duplicate the proposed elevated railway along the existing Churchgate-Virar line.