The NGT, July 5 directed a joint committee to look into the matter of trees being cut while widening the road from 60 feet to 80 feet from village Hawala Khurd to Shilp Gram, Udaipur, Rajasthan. A factual and action taken report will have to be filed within six weeks, …
Nagpur: Even as the principal bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT) at New Delhi on Monday initiated contempt proceedings against the forest department and National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), tree felling continued on NH-7 for the four-laning project on Tuesday. A spot visit found that trees were being felled …
Stickers will be pasted on vehicles in no-parking zone. To deter motorists who park their vehicles at their whim and fancy on the arterial roads, traffic Police are trying to put a new system in place. They are pasting stickers on the window of a car or the handle bar …
In a major move to improve the infrastructure of rural villages in the national capital, the Delhi government on Thursday cleared 315 schemes worth Rs.480.99 crore. The decision was taken in a meeting of Delhi Rural Development Board chaired by Rural Development Minister Gopal Rai. The schemes will mainly cover …
Water-logging, poor road design and potholes remain, as usual, a roadblock for smooth traffic flow in Delhi this monsoon, just like any other. As one civic agency characteristically blames the other for not having done its bit to ease the situation and thousands of man hours, on both sides of …
Between 2011 and 2013, road accidents injured 20,706 people and killed 5,796 more in Delhi, according to government data. With casualties continuing to mount, road accidents have found a place in the draft disaster management plan of the Delhi government. While the document examines in detail natural disasters like earthquakes, …
Trees Stand In The Middle Of Widened Andheria Mor-Fortis Hospital Stretch. The public works department has taken precautionary measures after a TOI report last month highlighted how several trees in the middle of the carriageway between Andheria Mor to Fortis Hospi tal could be a major safety hazard. However, boards …
A new report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) says the projects funded by the World Bank have over the past decade physically or economically displaced 3.4 million people globally. The story is no different for India, but World Bank India claimed the projects cleared by it followed …
NAGPUR: The Orange City — one of the cities selected to be developed as a smart city — has many shortcomings. Sample this: City is supplied 640 million litres per day (MLD) water supply but generates only 345 MLD of sewage. Only 40% of the city has underground sewage network …
The Delhi High Court today asked an environmentalist it appointed as amicus curiae to look into felling of 800 trees to widen a road in South Delhi's Vasant Kunj area to submit her report by April 9. Justice Rajiv Shakdher also asked the city government and the petitioner in the …
The Delhi High Court, on Monday, appointed environmentalist Sunita Narain as amicus curiae to look into the matter of chopping of 800 trees to widen a road connecting Andheria More to Fortis hospital in Vasant Kunj. The court of Justice Rajiv Shakdher asked Narain to file a report by April …
Arunachal Pradesh has urged the Centre to approve the proposed 2,000-km road from Tawang to Vijaynagar to provide connectivity to the border areas along the MacMohan line by declaring it as National Highway. State PWD Minister Gojen Gadi made the plea during a meeting with Union Minister of State for …
With poachers and depleting green cover already posing threats, the critically endangered tigers now have excavators for company in a Karnataka forest. It sounds funny but it is true that the heavy construction equipment are "roaring" inside a tiger reserve of the state. This is in violation of rules, which …
Power plants, highways, railways and seaports, meant to be the engines of India's economic growth, are now its Achilles heel. The 2014 World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Report cites poor infrastructure as one reason it ranked India at 71 out of 144 economies in the competitiveness index. This could prove …
The state government has approved construction of a road connecting Isapur in Kolhapur district and Chaukul in Sindhudurg district with diversion and deforestation of reserved forest spread over 4.32 hectares in the ecologically-sensitive areas. Officials said that the road will cut at least 40 kms of the distance between the …
Over a hundred roadside trees in Hafizabad union under Panchagarh Sadar upazila have been felled and sold off in last few months, allegedly defying rules. Seven members of the union parishad (UP) along with locals filed a complaint to Deputy Commissioner Muhammad Salah Uddin on October 23, stating that the …
India’s to-be-built “Smart Cities” will lay considerable emphasis on a world-class public transport that discourages people from taking their personal vehicles out, while earmarking separate lanes for pedestrians and cyclists on its roads. The new 100 Smart Cities, the ambitious project of the Narendra Modi government, would also emphasise on …
Gujarat high court on Wednesday came down heavily on the state government for its proposal to cut trees between Sanand and Nal Sarovar for widening the road in view of fast industrialization in the area. A PIL had pointed out that cutting of trees — which could be around 7,000 …
NEW DELHI: Fifty-six proposals under Forest Conservation Act and 11 projects under Environment Impact Assessment Notification for roads and public utility sectors were granted clearance in hilly states during the last one year, government today said. Presently, 55 projects for forest clearance and one project for environment clearance are pending …
The Delhi government plans to convert several single-carriageway flyovers in the capital into two-carriageway flyovers to ease the traffic load. The proposal includes the flyovers at Moti Nagar, Punjabi Bagh and Rao Tula Ram (RTR) Marg. Converting the Savitri flyover into a two-carriageway flyover is also under consideration. A provision …
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's budget had to disappoint It may have had something to do with Narendra Modi's historic victory. It may have been due to the overbearing urge to banish everything that has anything to do with UPA. Or it may have been because of the relatively bold Railway …
