Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
The Delhi Government on Wednesday sought more time from the Delhi High Court to respond to a plea seeking contempt action against it for not implementing the mixed use of traffic on the BRT corridor despite HC order. A division bench of Acting Chief Justice AK Sikri and Justice Rajiv …
The Union government on Tuesday approved the extension of the Metro connection from Mundka in Delhi to Bahadurgarh in Haryana. The approval was made at a high-level meeting of Empowered Group of Ministers, headed by Union Defence Minister A K Antony. This will be the third Metro route to Haryana …
New Delhi: With a daily footfall of 44,000, the Sikanderpur Metro station on the HUDA City Centre-Jahangirpuri corridor is an important station on the Yellow line. Now, it’s all set to provide greater connectivity after integration with the Rapid Metro in March next year. A Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) …
Stations are Jahangirpuri, Subhash Nagar, Botanical Garden and Kashmere Gate,” said the spokesperson. Currently, the Metro’s power requirements are regulated through 15 sub-stations spread across different parts of the city and the national capital region. For Phase III, under which about 140km of Delhi Metro lines will be built in …
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Wednesday directed the Delhi Metro to prepare a detailed project report within three months for construction of a mono rail network in East Delhi. Dikshit said her government plans to float a global tender for the 11-km-long network after the DMRC submits a final project …
As cities are growing in terms of population and physical size, their contributions to national GDP are also increasing due to increased economic activities in urban areas. Now in many countries the contribution of cities to national GDP is 80 percent or more of the total GDP. With this greater …
The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to bring 21 Gram Panchayat Offices (GPOs) and two revenue villages under its jurisdiction to enable the capital city get a metropolitan status. In a major decision at the BMC meeting on Monday, it was decided that the GPOs on the outskirts of …
With increasing congestion and traffic woes in the city, the only way forward from here on will be to use public and non-motorised transport, said V Tamizh Arasan, Retired Prof of the department of Civil Engineering from IIT-Madras. He delivered the annual E R R Thillainayagam Endowment Lecture on sustainable …
Govt Study Finds Public Transport System Suffering With Few Buses And Delays New Delhi: The preliminary findings of a study commissioned by the urban development ministry at the Centre has found that the availability of public transport (buses and Metro) in Delhi per 1,000 people is a shocking 0.504. Worse, …
A joint initiative of the Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi and Ministry of Physical Planning, Works and Transport Management, Government of Nepal. The Clean Air and Sustainable Transport Programme of the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) organised the Nepal Country Workshop on Air Quality and Sustainable Transportation …
The dream run of the city’s latest mode of public transport, the monorail, seems to have ended before it has begun. The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has changed its mind and has decided to put on hold all plans for the expansion of the monorail till the first …
The Haryana Government on Friday approved extension of Delhi Metro railway from Mundka to Bahadurgarh. Talking to media persons after a Cabinet meeting, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said the State Government would spend Rs. 788 crore on this project including a contribution of Rs. 152 crore as grant towards …
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Thursday said 14 other proposed bus rapid transport (BRT) corridors, which were to come up in different locations in the city, have been put on hold. This comes after the Central Road Research Institute (CRRI) submitted a report to the Delhi High Court on Monday …
The Delhi government on Wednesday asked for more time from the Delhi High Court to go through the Central Road Research Institute’s (CRRI) report that has favoured scrapping of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor. The court fixed July 23 for the next hearing, asking the government to respond to …
To Cut Emissions In Udaipur, Rajkot & Vizag Ahmedabad: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), Center for Environmental Planning and Technology (Cept) University and Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT-D) are going to make Udaipur, Rajkot and Visakhapatnam low carbon cities. The institutes will work together on improving the mobility …
It is not just the bearings of the elevated portion of the Airport Metro Express Line that are troubling the Delhi Metro, another study points to problems with tunnels, that have led to the buildings above developing cracks. After residents of Shahbad Mohammadpur, a residential colony in the vicinity of …
Report To HC Backs Mixed Traffic Lanes. After examining various scenarios on the Ambedkar Nagar-Moolchand bus rapid transit corridor, the Central Road Research Institute (CRRI) has pronounced that “the no-BRT option yields better benefits for this corridor”. It submitted its final report on Monday to the Delhi high court and …
Rejects Claim That It Serves Large Number Of Bus Users New Delhi: The Delhi government’s argument for continuing with the bus rapid transit corridor — that it serves a large number of commuters travelling by bus — has been shot down by the report compiled by the Central Road Research …
Irrespective of drawing severe criticism from every quarter in the city due to its flawed design, the Delhi Government has refused to budge from its avowed stance on the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Corridor. Its officials are busy devising ways and means to protect the Corridor, despite the traffic gridlock …
Will Include Suggestions By Several Government Agencies In Its Report New Delhi: Days before the BRT case comes up for hearing, the Central Road Research Institute is flooded with “advice” from the transport department and other government agencies on the Ambedkar Nagar-Moolchand bus rapid transit corridor. CRRI, which had been …
