Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton Canal nearly choked due to garbage dumping appearing in the DT Next dated 11.05.2025". The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton …
The multi-level parking lot at Sarojini Nagar Market, which was supposed to open last month, is still waiting to be inaugurated. The parking space, built at an approximate cost of Rs 80 crore, is waiting for approvals from various departments, said New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) officials. It is yet …
Even as Panchkula residents grapple with the cattle menace, the Municipal Council’s (MC) plan for establishing a cowshed hangs in the air. This cowshed was to come in Pinjore on a 12-acre land. Ravinder Rawal, President, Municipal Council, said, “Haryana government sanctioned the land for a cattle shed so that …
In the Municipal Council budget, nothing was earmarked for slums. At that time, Executive Officer K K Jain reasoned that the slums were on Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) land for non-allocation of funds. Now, a special grant of Rs 70 lakh has been sanctioned by the state government for …
To sensitise principals of all municipal, government, private schools and nodal officers of colleges in the New Delhi Municipal Council area about prevention and containment of vector borne disease, the civic body's health department organised an awareness programme this past week. About 250 representatives from various school and colleges participated …
The main objective of the paper is to assess the status of urban decentralization in the state of Jharkhand in India and to relate it to some major implications on service delivery. We find that while some of the functions are assigned to the local bodies on paper, none of …
JAMMU, Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah on Thursday underlined the need for comprehensive and balanced development of twin capital cities and towns in the State keeping in view the challenges on account of sewerage, drainage, transport, parking, housing and commercial activities. Chairing a high level meeting to take brief about the …
Finally, free parking facility at posh Khan Market will come to an end. Starting from next week, if you take your vehicle in the market, you will have to shell out comparatively higher parking charges following the orders of Supreme Court appointed Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA). Following …
Panchkula MC Budget; Nothing for slums; last year only Rs 3.69 cr was spent on development work. In its first meeting in a year, the Panchkula Municipal Council (MC) passed its budget unanimously for fiscal 2011-12. An amount of Rs 37.75 crore has been earmarked for development works whereas last …
New Delhi: Digging a trench along Kasturba Gandhi Marg for cable laying work has cost Transco dearly. According to Transco, it has been asked to pay up Rs 50 lakh by New Delhi Municipal Council and Rs 1 lakh by the forest department for resulting in the felling of a …
Starting April 1 visitors to Khan Market will have to pay for parking, which has been free for the past 25 years. The charges are being levied following the Environment Pollution Control Authority’s (EPCA) directions to the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC). The EPCA, NDMC, L&DO and the market association …
This Report comes to the conclusion that India’s economic growth momentum cannot be sustained if urbanisation is not actively facilitated. Nor can poverty be addressed if the needs of the urban poor are isolated from the broader challenges of managing urbanisation. Cities will have to become the engines of national …
Noting a fall in groundwater levels, the fact that all major parks in Delhi are facing water shortage and that the treated effluent used for horticulture purposes leaves behind a foul smell, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) is in the process of charting out a plan to address the …
It will auction its electronic scrap to authorized dealers and then insist on certificate to ensure the job is done The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) will organize an auction of e-waste in the third week of February. According to officials, only authorized dealers will be allowed to participate in …
Under an ambitious scheme of the Union government, Mohali will soon become a solar city. A proposal to this effect received from Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) was approved at the general house meeting of the Mohali Municipal Council (MC) held here this evening. With Chandigarh and Panchkula already cleared …
The Mohali Municipal Council (MC) on Thursday decided to renew the existing contracts for undertaking sanitation works in the city with over 82 per cent hike in the present contract amounts. As the present annual contracts expire on Thursday, the civic body approved extension to the present contractors to continue …
This is a special report in Down To Earth on how the 13the Finance Commission puts three times more money in the hands of local governments to spend—at their own will. Panchayats and municipal bodies will now have three times more money to spend—at their own will. The 13th Finance …
Panchayats and municipal bodies will now have three times more money to spend—at their own will. The 13th Finance Commission has pushed for greater autonomy for local governments by vesting spending power in their hands instead of the state, while increasing their non-plan expenditure from Rs 20,000 crore to Rs …
The implementation of decentralisation reform as embodied in the 73rd and 74th amendments of the Constitution has suffered from complete negligence. The two recent articles by Oommen and Sivaramakrishnan have highlighted the inexplicable attitudes of the finance commissions and the judiciary towards decentralisation.
