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 …
Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has issued notices to eight municipal corporations and 159 municipalities for not following guidelines on solid waste disposal. The corporations given notices are Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Junagadh, Jamnagar and Gandhinagar. It has threatened to take strict action under the Environment Protection Act 1986 …
This paper considers how resilience thinking and, in particular, its emphasis on learning has been applied in 10 cities in Vietnam, India, Thailand and Indonesia. Applying a “shared learning” approach in the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) has helped to create or strengthen networks, build appreciation for complexity …
Mulls a policy to attract manufacturers in solar power sector. Gujarat government on Monday said that it plans to install about 60 Mw solar power generation capacity in the next three years through roof-top units on houses. It further said it was mulling a policy to attract manufacturers in solar …
Surat’s sporadic expansion between the 80’s and the 90’s resulted in a major service gap in the field of solid waste management (SWM). It resulted in one of the major epidemic in the form of Plague in the year 1994, which was probably the worst in the country in decades. …
Surat: The Diamond City has started taking baby steps on the green path. It is moving towards becoming the first city in India to have a green building council (GBC) that would ensure that the new buildings coming up follow a green building code. The future constructions would have openings …
Cities are creaking under their own weight. And heat. In Surat, for instance, parts of the city with dense concrete jungles swelter at temperatures 5 degrees higher than the city’s greener parts. This phenomenon, of parts of a city having higher temperature than the remaining areas, is called an ‘urban …
190 Govt Offices With Illegal Sewage Connections Release Waste Into The River Surat: River Tapi stinks because of release of untreated sewage water into it by many government and other offices. Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) had found Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), income tax department, government circuit house and police …
New Delhi: In sharp contrast with the findings of the first Annual Survey of India’s City-Systems, Surat and Ahmedabad topped the list of 11 cities in the public survey on quality of life and city-system. In the Voice of India’s Citizens Survey, Kanpur was rated as the worst city to …
Electricity energy requirement in these cities to rise to 15,68,73 MUs by end of 12th plan. Urbanisation, development of infrastructure and increase in the number of malls and shopping complexes will lead to an increase in the electricity energy requirement (EER) in 13 cities from 110,635 million units (MUs) in …
New Delhi: Is urban India drowning in its own excreta? Nearly 80% of the sewage generated in India flows untreated into its rivers, lakes and ponds, turning the water sources too polluted to use. The end result: groundwater in almost the entire country has nitrate levels higher than the prescribed …
Is urban India drowning in its own excreta? Nearly 80 per cent of the sewage generated in India flows untreated into its rivers, lakes and ponds, turning the water sources too polluted to use. The end result: groundwater in almost the entire country has nitrate levels higher than the prescribed …
With the Union urban ministry emphasizing the funding of major transportation projects in the country, Gujarat's cities have readied teams to lobby for multi-crore BRTS projects to be taken up on priority basis in the coming JNNURM committee meeting. The Union budget has made provisions for almost Rs 14,873 crore …
AHMEDABAD: It's not Ahmedabad alone that is aiming at the tall order, but major cities in the state have been given the go ahead with higher FSI limits by the state urban development department (UDD) in recent months. Driven by the need for affordable houses, transit-oriented development, encouraging redevelopment of …
Three people were killed and one person has been reported missing in the fire accident at IOC at Hazira in Surat on Saturday noon. The financial loss in the incident has been estimated to be Rs 45 crore. The fire and emergency teams of Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC), which reached …
However, experts from the oil and gas industry feel that the move by company would not bring much relief in the present high price situation City gas distribution major Gujarat Gas Company Ltd (GGCL) has decided to focus on domestic suppliers for procurement of LNG after its supply contract with …
Surat: A high density corridor will be developed in the diamond city to boost growth and solve transportation problems in its new areas. It would be 29 km long and would come up along the 66 km Outer Ring Road where there is maximum residential and commercial development. The project …
Surat: Surat could well become the first city in India to make solar water heating in all buildings, residential and commercial, mandatory. Earlier, this year, the Union urban development ministry had made it mandatory that civic bodies of all 58 cities identified to be made “solar cities” change their construction …
This article discusses the methodology adapted in designing city resilience concepts under changing climate scenarios for two cities in India, namely, Indore and Surat. This initiative was undertaken in the second phase (2009-2010) of Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) programme. The process of resilience planning has demonstrated how …
AHMEDABAD: In order to achieve the norm of minimum 15% tree cover, the forest department is planning to adopt the public private partnership (PPP) model to increase the tree cover in eight municipal corporations and 159 nagar palikas in the state. The recent tree census taken up by the social …
A group of global businesses with operations in India have worked with the Government of Gujarat and the four largest cities in the state (Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Surat and Vadodara) to identify inclusive and sustainable solutions to key urban development challenges faced by these cities. The companies are part of a …
