Vehicular congestion and insufficient parking facilities are significant emerging challenges for India’s mega and metropolitan cities, severely impairing mobility. Although curtailed by constitutional mandates, many Indian cities are seeking to resolve the issue through parking policies, focusing on regulations, pricing as a management tool, new technologies, and off-street parking provisions. …
PUNE: The parliamentary standing committee on urban development has said the bus rapid transit system (BRTS) plan for Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad must be put on hold immediately. The committee in its report to Parliament last week said the future course of action on the system, which is in the …
With the rising vehicular pollution across metros becoming a matter of concern, the National Green Tribunal earlier this week asked the Centre to place before it the Dr. Mashelkar Committee Report on auto fuel quality, vehicular emission norms and related issues. An NGT bench headed by Justice P. Jyothimani directed …
Facing a serious situation due to poor performance of the main garbage processing plant, Hanjer Biotech, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) administration has sought approval to finalise a rent of Rs 32 lakh per year for a stone quarry at Pisoli to dispose the waste generated in city. The government …
The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change is setting up a three-member committee to look into the issues surrounding the recent landslide near Pune, Maharashtra. According to sources, the move allegedly comes after an MP sent a complaint to the District Collector Sourabh Rao regarding construction and development activities …
PUNE: Groups of cyclists on Sunday threw their weight behind creating safe and usable cycle tracks in the city, and asked the Pune Municipal Corporation to improve the tracks it has laid in the past decade instead of converting them into business places for hawkers. The cyclists' groups are against …
Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) administration, citing feasibility issues, has been opposing the poposed light rail transport (LRT) project from Shivajinagar to Hinjewadi. Corporators in the civic standing committee on Tuesday went ahead and gave the nod to the project and sought finaces from the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) for …
Finally here is a sure-shot-method of measuring a child’s progress towards obesity. With doctors warning of a rise in the number of children being brought in with adult lifestyle diseases – including obesity, diabetes and hypertension – a multi-centre, cross-sectional study done on 10,842 children in five cities – Delhi, …
Pune : The consensus outlook for the summer monsoon season (June-September), developed in the fifth session of the South Asian Climate Outlook Forum (SASCOF-5), indicates below-normal to normal rainfall over South Asia as a whole. "Below-normal rainfall is likely over broad areas of western, central and south-western parts of the …
Bangalore generates 57,000 MT of electronic waste a year, reveals Assocham study. The report, Electronic Waste Management in India, released as part of World Earth Day on April 22, said India generates around 12.5 lakh MT of electronic waste annually, growing at the rate of 25 per cent. Bangalore generates …
Motorized two-wheelers - motorcycles, scooters, mopeds, and similar vehicles - are a growing form of transport in Indian cities. As such, the rise of motorized two-wheelers has significant implications for the future of public transport. This working paper draws on existing literature and explores the case of Pune, which has …
Pune: The air Pune’s residents breathe carries a rich dose of pollutants, too small to be filtered by scarves and masks that road users or even traffic cops use. Analysis by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology’s (IITM) of pollutant emissions in Pune Metropolitan Region (covering around 60 km area …
NASHIK: The National Green Tribunal (NGT), Pune, on Monday instructed state government officials to be present for the next hearing on the petition filed for Godavari river's revival, failing which it has warned of prohibitory orders against them on the forthcoming Kumbh Mela. On January 16, the NGT had asked …
Citizens’ Transportation Status Report 2013 reveals need to increase share of public and non-motorized transport. In a first of its kind, city-based NGOs Parisar and Save Pune Traffic Movement (SPTM) have released a Citizens’ Transportation Status Report (TSR) on the lines of the Environment Status Report (ESR) that is published …
Pune BRTS is a proposed Bus Rapid Transit Project for the city and the Construction of 15.5 km pilot route comprising of stretches from 3 corridors. PMC has decided to carry out a road safety audit of the BRTS corridor before starting the BRTS system to enhance safety of vehicles …
PE firm Avenue Venture invests Rs 40cr in Vastubodh's affordable housing project. Vastubodh to launch affordable housing project in Boisar Mumbai. Pune-based Vastubodh Projects today announced that it has received funding of Rs 40 crore for two of its affordable housing projects from PE firm Avenue Venture Partners Real Estate …
Mumbai: The national green tribunal (Pune bench) has admitted a petition seeking restoration of the ecology and marine life of Ulhas river in Thane district and winding up of all industries releasing untreated effluents, sewage and pollutants into it. The petition filed by NGO Vanshakti has demanded action against Maharashtra …
Pune: The Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) drive to bring all clinics in the city under its common biomedical waste disposal system has flopped. Only 2,500 of the 7,000 clinics have joined the facility since the drive began in May. Over 4,000 clinics in the city that have not joined the …
Pune: Incomplete works to facilitate the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) on a 16-km stretch between Vishrantwadi and Wagholi on Ahmednagar Road that can jeopardize the safety of commuters if the project is launched in its current state, have irked citizens and members of industrial associations. A joint panel, comprising …
Pune: Food safety norms will now be implemented in six cantonment areas in Maharashtra including three in Pune and one each in Nashik, Ahmednagar and Aurangabad that come under the Union government’s jurisdiction. State government officials have been asked to oversee the work in these areas. Though standards and guidelines …
