The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Birgunj Sub-metropolitan City, the Asian Development Bank and Municipal Development Fund today signed a memorandum of understanding for a Rs 3.25-billion project for the construction of sewage system and management of garbage in the sub-metropolis. The deal was signed under middle urban integrated environmental reform project for the long-term solution …
The KMC Administrator Syed Hashim Raza Zaidi has said that comprehensive studies about Karachi Mass Transit and water drainage system had been conducted in the light of Master Plan 2020, and capacity of extensive cooperation with Asian Development Bank (ADB) exists for their implementation. He said this while talking with …
The Sri Lankan government has received a US$ 98 million loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to rehabilitate and improve around 120 kilometers of provincial roads in Sri Lanka's conflict affected North. Under the Northern Road Connectivity Project, the financial assistance from the ADB will be utilized to rehabilitate …
Minister for Science, Technology and Environment Uma Kant Jha has stressed on the need to provide clean cookstoves to every household in the country so that traditional stoves could be replaced as soon as possible. Inaugurating a three-day event ‘Clean Cookstoves Market Place 2013’ in the Capital yesterday, he said, …
The destruction in Uttarakhand was caused not merely by excessive rain but due to mindless construction across young mountains and building of dams on the Ganga and its tributaries, said Magsaysay award winning conservationist Rajendra Singh. Speaking to The Hindu here on Sunday, Mr. Singh urged the Centre and the …
Giving a pat on the back to the government’s flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), a recent study by the Asian Development Bank has said it is a very effective labour market programme. However, India’s performance for over all social protection is below average. India was rated …
Poor in Asia Pacific exposed to risks, unemployment & natural disasters due to lack of social protection system, says ADB Large numbers of poor and vulnerable are exposed to risks and unexpected difficulties like unemployment, ill health, and natural disasters, an Asian Development Bank (ADB) study says, because of lack …
Says budgetary provisions for hill state would be almost doubled to Rs 700 cr from Rs 450 cr under MNREGA Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has substantially raised financial aid for the floods-ravaged Uttarakhand. This includes a budget of Rs 700 crore under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Gurantee …
Speakers at a workshop on Monday stressed the need for a sustainable fecal sludge management with appropriate technology, socially acceptable, financially viable and environment friendly sanitation system for ensuring sound health of the people. Asian Development Bank organised the two-day ‘Action planning workshop for improving sanitation conditions in Khulna and …
Agriculture Development Strategy (ADS) team has submitted its final report to the government. ADS team led by major donor —Asian Development Bank — handed over the 20 years long strategic plan to minister for Agriculture Development Tek Bahadur Thapa today. The ADS will replace Agriculture Perspective Plan (APP) in 2015. …
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Sri Lankan government signed the first-tranche of US $ 84 million under the multi-tranche credit line to implement the non-revenue water management programme in the Greater Colombo area. The total investment cost of this programme is US $ 400 million of which US …
The urban development department has prepared a Rs 670 crore scheme for execution of water supply, sewerage and waste water management of Gaya town. Asian Development Bank (ADB) is to be approached for funds for the scheme's execution. According to an official letter sent by urban development secretary S Sidhartha, …
'Second phase of Kudcemp work will deal with water supply' The urban development department is pursuing the proposal to include Mangalore under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM), said Urban Development Minister Vinaya Kumar Sorake. Chairing a meeting to review the progress of various development work in the …
The Asian Development Bank will provide US$ 198 million in loans for Bangladesh to help upgrade a critical regional highway and two land ports to boost connectivity and trade across South Asia. In this regard, the government and ADB on Wednesday signed a loan agreement. Economic Relations Division secretary Md …
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of India have signed an agreement for a $150 million loan that will help build a strong and reliable bulk power evacuation system in Uttarakhand. The fourth tranche loan under the Uttarakhand power sector investment programme will help develop infrastructure for a …
INDORE: Water supply of the city has increased by 250% in the last three years, claims Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC). However, there seems to be no end to the water woes of Indoreans. A large number of people are still deprived of tap water supply and are have to depend …
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Centre have signed an agreement for a $110-million loan to improve urban services, including water supply, in Jammu and Srinagar. The second tranche loan under the Jammu and Kashmir urban sector development investment program will also help develop infrastructure for solid waste management, …
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Pakistan today signed an agreement to invest $ 99.1 million in improving water supply, sanitation, and solid waste management facilitates of 8 smaller cities in Pakistan’s Sindh province. Werner E. Liepach, ADB’s Country Director for Pakistan and Muhammad Shahzad Arbab, Secretary …
The Asian Development Bank will maintain its lending rate to India of about $2 billion per annum for the next three years, which will be invested in power, transportation, water and sanitation, the multilateral bank’s president Takehiko Nakao said on Sunday. Nakao added that the bank had identified some projects …
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved Rs. 6.89 billion ($80 million) loan to modernise and expand the wastewater network and treatment facilities in the populous Kathmandu Valley. “Better and broader sewage and water systems will improve health and living conditions and reduce river pollution in the Kathmandu Valley where …
