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, …
KATHMANDU: The government, through the budget for next fiscal, has announced plans to introduce an integrated law to make land acquisition and valuation easy. For many years, land acquisition has remained a major challenge for the government to implement infrastructure projects effectively. In the budget unveiled on Sunday, the government …
KANDY: Defence and Urban Development Ministry has planned a development project for Kandy with a World Bank credit line of USD 100,000,000. The project would be launched before the end of August 2014, an official representing the Ministry Defence and Urban Development told a meeting held at the Kandy District …
CHENNAI: The city’s road safety has come under fire with the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) report pointing out that the maximum number of road accidents occur here. And activists, motorists and road safety experts are not in the least surprised that there were 9,663 accident cases recorded in …
Pedestrians and cyclists have emerged as the most vulnerable group on Delhi roads with the two of them accounting for the largest share of road injuries and deaths. Worse, Delhi also has the highest number of fatal accidents among all major cities, with five deaths recorded per day. This has …
CHENNAI: Chennai’s roads are the second deadliest in the country, says a report published by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a Delhi-based research organisation. According to the statistics of National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), Chennai had the highest number of traffic accident cases in the country. The city saw …
INDORE: Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) will review its decision to cut 199 trees and transplant 22 for the construction of bridges, culverts and roads. While hearing a petition filed by social activist Kishor Kodwani, National Green Tribunal (NGT) in its interim order in March had directed not to cut any …
A project that involves cutting down trees to build a bus lane in Pakistan's capital is pitting environmentalists against officials An excavator digs up a greenbelt area along Ninth Avenue in Islamabad for construction of a bus lane. Photograph: Courtesy of Saleem Shaikh/Thomson Reuters Foundation For over two decades, Hussain …
The Alakolaveva-Padiyapelalla road development project was launched by Private Transport Minister C. B. Ratnayaka recently. A fund of Rs. one million has been allocated for the project carried out in the divisional secretariat area of Valapane in the Valapane electorate of the Nuwara Eliya district.
CSE releases the assessment of road accidents and accident hotspots; presents findings of its safety audit; puts forth an action plan Deadly tally: About 16 deaths and 58 road injures per hour in India; share of fatal accidents in the total is up from 18 per cent in 2003 to …
Tackling a million deaths: Paving a path for Trauma Systems Development in India - a presentation by Amit Gupta at CSE round table conference on "Our safe right of way", on June 23, 2014 in New Delhi. Read the presentation: http://www.cseindia.org/userfiles/Road%20Saftey%20Amit%20Gupta.pdf
The Economic Development Ministry will commence brass, iron, apparel and clay industries at the Wariyapola Bamunakotuwa Divisional Secretariat area, said Senior Minister S. B. Nawinne at a press briefing at his residence in Wariyapola, Malwana recently. He said the government will spend Rs. 132 million for the development of infrastructure …
Kathmandu, May 15: A record of traffic police showed that annually 38,000 people had to meet their untimely deaths only because of road accidents when they defy traffic rules. Traffic officials speaking at a three-day ‘Road Safety Exhibition,’ kicked off on Thursday organised by the Metropolitan Traffic Police Division (MTPD) …
Asian Development Bank will provide USD 275 million loan for improving rural road connectivity in five states in the country. "The Government of India and ADB today signed a USD 275 million loan agreement to continue improving rural roads in five states including Assam, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and West …
The government has undertaken an ambitious integrated programme to develop four Districts, Ampara, Trincomalee, Batticaloa and Polonnaruwa, as part of the seventh Deyata Kirula exhibition to be held at the Hardy Technical Training Institute, Ampara on Feb. 4. The government had allocated Rs. 45.3 billion for selected projects in the …
Andhra Pradesh is taking back land offered at concessional rates from errant entrepreneurs who have failed to roll out stipulated projects on time or sought to use the acquired land for other purposes. The policy decision has enabled the state to reclaim 4,200 acres from 562 companies so far, including …
Fish Passage 2015 will be an important international forum to exchange findings and experiences on fish related passage issues. This international conference is of interest to researchers, educators, practitioners, funders, and regulators who have an interest in advancements in technical fishways, nature-like fishways, downstream passage solutions, stream restoration and stabilization, …
