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 …
AMC Signs Kyoto Declaration in Seoul Kumar Manish | TNN Ahmedabad: The six-monthold Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS), popularly known as Janmarg, is taking Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) to places. Recently, the case study of Janmarg was discussed during
Every movement needs a poster boy. India's quest for securing its water needs could use Rajiv Mittal. At 49, the Managing Director of VA Tech Wabag, is one of the younger water entrepreneurs who are changing the way we treat the liquid that sustains our life. Mittal was sent to …
Kumar Manish | TNN Ahmedabad: Summer has begun in earnest, pushing the mercury up but for Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) it is time to draw up the monsoon action plan! The reason? AMC has made promises in this regard to the National Consumers Disputes Redressal Commission at New Delhi. What
There I was, zipping down bustling Ahmedabad. The bus stopped at a station, designed so the doors of the bus and the station open simultaneously to let passengers out and in. People were walking to the station, buying tickets and waiting. A notice flashed when the next bus would arrive. …
Ahmedabad: Perhaps for the first time, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has taken up cudgels to make the city free of open defecation spots (ODs) and manual scavenging. The civic body will be conducting a comprehensive survey through three agencies
Ahmedabad: For the first time, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) is doing a comprehensive health survey in the city to profile cases of malnutrition, vaccination, anaemia and also immunisation reach among urban poor. The Multi Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) intends to cover the population living in city slums and other vulnerable …
Paul John & Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Ahmedabad: A paradigm shift has taken place in the latest Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar metro rail plans. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has submitted a detailed project report (DPR) to the state government which now wants a portion of the Thaltej- Kalupur metro line in …
Ahmedabad: Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has invited firms for constructing the Rs 16.51 crore BRTS elevated corridor. The three-km-long corridor has been planned between Dariyapur Darwaza and New Cloth market to ease off traffic for BRTS bus service that will be extended to Kalupur by the end of next year. …
Paul John | TNN Ahmedabad: The metro rail project between Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar has been put on the fast track with Gujarat Urban Development Corporation (GUDC) finally giving the go-ahead for appointing a managing director for Metro-link Express for Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad (MEGA), the special purpose vehicle that would implement …
Cycle rally by youth groups promotes environment awareness Tulsi Tushar Shah Ahmedabad: Chitra Pandya, 17, a student of civil engineering at Cept University, made a ballyhoo as she displayed a banner saying
Kumar Manish | TNN Ahmedabad: Faculty members, students of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, ISRO scientists, government officials and city youth will participate in a cycle rally to promote cleaner, greener and safer Ahmedabad. The cycle rally will start from the old IIM-A campus, passing through CN Vidyalaya, Space Application …
Paul John & Kumar Manish | TNN Ahmedabad: The upcoming headquarters of Ahmmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) in Danapith will be the first green public building in the city. This is among four energy-efficient green public buildings based on energy saving designs under construction. The other three are new dental hospital …
Ahmedabad: In a major green initiative, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) is targeting industrial areas of Vatva, Narol and Odhav for cutting down the increasing pollution level. The civic body will be developing urban green lungs in these industrial clusters in eastern part of the city. A senior AMC official said,
Ahmedabad: A unique project that converts daily waste into fuel to heat boilers, is being set up at Gyaspur solid waste site in city. The project is one of a kind in the country and will be projected as part of clean development initiative by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) to …
Ahmedabad: Ahmedabad was at the centrestage during the recently-concluded Sustainable Transport Award function at annual Transportation Research Board (TRB) meeting in Washington, DC. AMC authorities made four presentations on the city in front of international civic bodies and financial organisations like World Development Bank and US Federal agency. Commissioner, Ahmedabad …
Ahmedabad: The ambitious Kankaria Lake Front Development (KLFD) project looks like a runaway success for the city municipal body. According to KLFD authorities, 47 lakh people visited the Kankaria lake between January and December 2009. The KLFD was inaugurated in December, 2008 coinciding with the week-long Kankaria carnival, during Christmas …
Ahmedabad: Its yet another milestone for BRTS-Ahmedabad. Its being adjudged the best sustainable transport system in the world. This is the first time that Sustainable Transport Award is given to a city in South Asia. Ahmedabad BRTS happened to be the only mass transit system from India that was nominated …
Shopkeepers Sell It Under The Counter Kumar Manish | TNN Ahmedabad: The only perceptible change in the availability of manja in the city after the recent ban on the Chinese kite thread is that it has slipped to under the counter from the window. Now, if you go looking to …
