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 …
GURGAON: From next week the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) is all set to crack the whip on illegal borewells in DLF plotted colonies in the city. Confirming the move, the HUDA administrator, Praveen Kumar, said: "Five teams have been set up to identity illegal borewell connections in residential houses …
Only mass rapid transit solutions can provide India’s urban commuters with efficient mobility. Billions of man-hours are lost with people ‘stuck in traffic’. This fact is also echoed in government’s national urban transport policy. The reasons are well known: exponential growth of motor vehicles with negligible increase in road space. …
New Delhi: The government’s ambitious national urban development plan will ease up on the reform agenda for state and municipal governments. This is a major departure from the take-it-or-leave-it set of reforms that stymied them from dipping into the R60,000-crore corpus of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). …
This Economic Survey attempts to present in detail the current status of the overall state economy as well as its various sectors. This would include all the efforts made by the state government sectorwise and its achievements in respective sectors. It would simultaneously try to underline some of the constraints …
The Knowledge Partnership for Measuring Air Pollution and GHG Emissions in Asia aims to help policy makers, development agencies and other stakeholders in Asia have better access to air quality and climate change data to further enrich policy development activities and development interventions relevant to energy and transport sectors and …
The cities of the State will be given a facelift. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has instructed to chalk out two-year action plan for developing beautiful and clean cities with ultramodern basic amenities. He also instructed to give top priority to works for purifying Maa Narmada River at Amarkantak and …
Despite a second sewage treatment plant on the verge of becoming operational in Panchkula, residents will have to wait for more time before treated water is pumped into parks and lawns. The new plant, constructed by the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) is housed in Sector-22 and will have the …
1.43 lakh units for economically weaker sections: R.Vaithilingam The State will get an additional 1.85 lakh housing units in the next five years at a cost of Rs.17,230 crore. Of these, 1.43 lakh units would be for the economically weaker sections, R.Vaithilingam, Minister for Housing and Urban Development said on …
Two Ministers get additional grant for their constituencies The additional grant of several crores of rupees to two Delhi Ministers, Raj Kumar Chauhan and Arvinder Singh Lovely, and another Congress MLA, Naseeb Singh, has caught the fancy of several other legislators in the Assembly who now also want additional money …
With the State witnessing a high level of migration from rural areas to urban localities and as cities were expanding at a rapid pace, the government has launched Rs.6,654 crore ‘Integrated Urban Development Mission' to provide basic facilities in corporation, municipal and town panchayats. The government will spend Rs.757.28 crore …
AHMEDABAD: Imagine sudden floods at Sabarmati River arising out of climate change and a loss of Rs1,200 crore for Gujarat's Sabarmati Riverfront project! A prior understanding of the effects of climate change and including features to adapt to these effects of climate change in the project could avoid such loses. …
CHENNAI: To improve basic infrastructure facilities in cities and urban areas in the state, Tamil Nadu government today decided to start a scheme at a cost of Rs 6,653 crore. Under the "Integrated Urban Development Scheme", basic infrastructure, including drinking water, sewage water removal, health, rain water drainage, roads and …
The politics of inclusion in the Sabarmati Riverfront Development project, an urban mega-project in Ahmedabad, has been predicated on a “flexible governing” of the residents of the riverfront informal settlements. Such flexible governing has allowed state authorities to negotiate grass-roots opposition and mobilisation, modify the project to gentrify the riverfront …
New Delhi: Chief minister Sheila Dikshit slammed the-Delhi Development Authority (DDA) on Thursday by calling it a “closed system” and an “elephant” that cannot match the pace at which the capital is progressing. “DDA has become like an elephant, which cannot ride or move. And when it moves, it is …
KOCHI: The PWD will soon start the road work for Rs1,343 crore allotted by the Finance Department, said Public Works Minister V K Ebrahim Kunju. After a review meeting of the top officials of PWD here on Tuesday, the minister said the Urban Development Project under the Road Fund Board …
The present issue of the Statistical Year Book India 2012 is 45th edition of the publication in the series. The present volume of the publication contains comprehensive data on economic and social sectors, spread in 44 chapters covering more than 350 tables. The data includes the latest state-wise indicators. In …
MUMBAI: The state is against a central legislation for regulation of the housing sector. It feels that regulation and monitoring of housing must be dealt with at the state level. After proposing model guidelines to regulate the sector in 2009, the Union ministry of housing and urban poverty alleviation has …
The State Cabinet on Wednesday decided to make available Government security worth Rs387.40 crore under Integrated Housing and Slums Development Programme and Basic Services for Urban Poor. With this, decks have been cleared for the construction of 60,000 houses for the urban poor. Under Integrated Housing and Slum Development Programme …
The Deputy Chief Minister, Tara Chand on Tuesday convened a meeting of senior officers to review the pace of progress of various schemes launched by the Municipal Corporation here today. He said mega development projects have been launched in the capital cities to upgrade urban infrastructure, adding that prestigious projects …
KOLKATA, 22 DEC: The state government has taken up a Rs 51-crore project to clean Bagjola Canal, state irrigation minister Dr Manas Bhuniya said at Writers’ Buildings today, adding the Centre would share 35 per cent of the total project cost. He made the announcement following a meeting with education …
