Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Redevelopment plan looks beyond beautification and parking issues. Stresses on need to create fire exits and relocate services so that evacuation routes are not obstructed Khan Market is set to wear a new look w i t h u n i fo r m façade, more parking space, wide walkways …
To curb the rapidly increasing vehicular population in the city, the Delhi government is mulling a number of measures, including hefty hike in parking fees, introduction of congestion charges for entering in specific areas and improving the public transport system. The government has already taken an in-principle decision to increase …
To curb the rapidly increasing vehicular population in the city, the Delhi Government is mulling a number of measures, including hefty hike in parking fees, introduction of congestion charges for entering specific areas and improving the public transport system. The Government has already taken an in-principle decision to increase parking …
Aims to discourage parking on roads, use of private vehicles The Capital looks all set to have a new parking policy meant to regulate parking on the roads while placing a restraint on use of public space by private vehicles, thus creating an incentive to use public transport. A series …
The Environmental Pollution (Prevention & Control) Authority (EPCA) presentation on a new parking policy for Delhi before the Lieutenant-Governor on Thursday argued that the rate of parking for surface parking should be kept higher than multi-level parking facilities. Other suggestions related to pricing made by Ms. Sunita Narain and Mr. …
Lieutenant-Governor Tejendra Khanna on Thursday called a meeting of all stakeholders to draw a consensus on “substantially increasing” parking charges in the city in a bid to reduce congestion in the available parking lots. Chief Secretary P K Tripathi is learnt to have suggested the need for optimising the surface …
New Delhi: The city might be looking at a hike in parking rates soon and change in parking policies as stakeholders have agreed, in principle, that such solutions need to be found for Delhi’s parking problem. The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) and Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) on …
The Supreme Court on Friday pulled up the governments of Delhi and Uttar Pradesh for failing to stop pollutants from flowing into Yamuna from the national Capital and Noida. The apex court criticised the poor co-operation between the two governments in stepping up measures to clean the Yamuna. It asked …
All private car owners in the capital may soon have to go for a mandatory annual fitness test of their vehicles with the Delhi government all set to implement a two-year-old proposal aimed at reducing environment pollution. As per the current norms, only commercial vehicles need to go for an …
Vehicle owners in the city could soon be required to have a fitness test done of their cars and two-wheelers ever year, as the Delhi government looks set to implement a two-year-old proposal aimed at reducing environment pollution. As per existing rules, only commercial vehicles need a fitness check every …
New Delhi: The North Delhi Municipal Corporation has decided to make the use of handheld devices to issue parking slips mandatory. The corporation took this step following complaints of overcharging and misuse of parking space by contractors handling its parking lots. The Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) had recommended this …
A draft policy for parking finalised by the Environment Protection and Control Authority (EPCA) headed by Bhure Lal has proposed 10 time-hike in the parking rates depending on the locations of the colony and market areas in the national capital. The draft policy was discussed at a high-level meeting chaired …
New Delhi: On Tuesday, the transport department started the year’s first pollution checking drive as part of its World Environment Day initiative. With the drive reduced to an annual affair — the last one was in July 2011 — driving in Delhi without a pollution under control (PUC) certificate carries …
New Delhi: The Delhi government finally seems to be waking up to the threat of environment pollution from the expanding private vehicle pool in the city. Based on an EPCA (environment pollution control authority) recommendation, the transport department is putting together a proposal for mandatory fitness checks of all private …
NEW DELHI: Trucks and tourist buses with national permits and registered in NCR that need to move cargo or people between two points in NCR are now required to comply with Bharat Stage IV emission standards. The notification was issued this February but sources claim there is negligible compliance. With …
The Supreme Court on Monday expressed serious reservation over the Delhi chief secretary’s failure to honour its August 2011 order, asking him to detail the action taken following a CBI report about the illegal trading of three-wheeler autorickshaw permits in the capital. A bench of Justices D K Jain and …
Non-completion of the Western and Eastern Peripheral Expressway to divert traffic of heavy vehicles is costing the national Capital’s health dearly. According to a study, the city has the highest level of air pollutants called particulate matter less than 10 microns (PM10). To make matters worse, the PM10 levels have …
New Delhi: As the MCD prepares budget estimates for the year 2012-13, the cashstrapped agency is planning to double parking rates in the city. Subsequently, the monthly licence fee pro rata is also expected to go up. At present, the MCD parking fee is Rs 10 for the first 10 …
In an effort to salvage “public confidence” in the much delayed Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Expressway project, the constructing company will open a small, ready stretch for traffic to try out this month. The 135.6-km expressway circumventing Delhi was commissioned in 2006 and was to be opened in 2009 but has missed …
EPCA Tells IGL Not To Revise Prices Again New Delhi: Frequent hikes in pricesof CNG(compressed natural gas) has got the EPCA (Environment Protection Control Agency) to ask IGL (Indraprastha Gas Limited), the sole supplier of the fuel in thecity,todesistfrom making any further price change. Officials said regulating the price of …
