Judgment of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Balwinder Kaur Vs State of Punjab & Others dated 19/03/2024. Balwinder Kaur, the applicant raised the grievance of risk of thousands of trees felling due to likelihood of land sliding. It was said that illegal mining is being carried out …
The State government has sanctioned Rs 200 crore for improvement of roads in various Assembly segments across the State, Public Works Minister C M Udasi said on Monday. Speaking to reporters in Bangalore, Udasi said as many as 200 non-urban Assembly constituencies have been identified under the new scheme
Only four days are left for the Centre to take a final decision on executing the Hazaribagh-Ranchi four-lane project worth over Rs 600 crore, even as its bids were decided on February 27.
With a large number of road development projects facing a resource crunch as well as cost overrun and delay in completion in many cases, the Road Transport and Highways Ministry is seeking to double its budgetary allocation for smooth functioning. At the Transport Bhawan, Road Transport and Highways Minister Kamal …
Kerala Govt sets deadlines for handover of lands. The State Government will hold discussions with all affected persons and institutions to sort out problems and execute the acquisition on time. Our Bureau Thiruvananthapuram, June 19 The State Government has decided to put land acquisition for rail and national highways development …
Nabard has released Rs 41 crore for the development of 52 rural roads in the district, said sources in the Public Works Department. Phalahara Swamy Mutt Road, Lakkumanahalli-Sadarahalli-Belavadi Road, Nellur-Kalledevarahalli-Undedasarahalli-Pais Compound Road have also been included in the present list. Rs 264 lakh has been released under the Suvarna Rasthe …
Satish Shile, Bangalore, DH News Service: Who should bear the land cost? This is the issue that has slowed down the process of kickstarting the State government
Shortage of credit in the market and undue interference from the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has had a negative impact on the road development in the country with a number of projects being stalled and some being delayed much beyond the target. Although the newly appointed Minister for …
http://www.pgportal.gov.in A few months back, the telephone company BSNL dug up newly built roads in Faridabad, Haryana, to lay cables. A resident highlighted his concern at http://www.pgportal.gov.in. To his surprise, BSNL and Municipal Corporation of Faridabad were served a show cause notice. The portal run by the Union government
BANDIPUR: A sub-committee comprising senior officials of Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu and other stakeholders will be constituted to study the effect of vehicle movement in the national parks in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve (NBR) and to suggest steps to mitigate its impact. The authorities will conceive and adopt a
Dipak Kumar Dash | TNN New Delhi: Ambitious it might sound, road transport and highways minister Kamal Nath has set a target of constructing 20 km of national highways per day to accelerate the highway development programme after over two years of snail paced progress. Though exact data on the …
Swarleen Kaur Chandigarh: In a move that would boost the economy of Himachal Pradesh, the state Cabinet has given its nod to the Rs 142-crore road-widening project. The 72-km stretch from Kumarhatti to Nahan would be widened and strengthened under the World Bank-aided project, which would link the Kalka-Shimla road …
257 tsunami houses in Sinnangudi in advanced stage of construction INSPECTION: Nagapattinam Collector C. Munianathan, right, inspecting tsunami houses constructed by Rajiv Gandhi Rehabilitation project at Chinnakudi village. NAGAPATTINAM: A total of 3,095 development works are under execution under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme on an outlay of Rs. …
Farmers and the Greater Noida Authority have reached an agreement for the payment of land compensation at the rate of Rs 850 per sq mt for the land to be acquired for the Peripheral Expressway around the national capital. The success of the long struggle of the Noida farmers for …
MUMBAI: Environmentalists are up in arms after the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) recently converted a pathway into a six-kilometre tarred road that cuts through 102 hectares of mangroves along Thane Creek. Greens fear that the pucca road will encourage trespassing into the mangrove zone and encroachment by builders. The …
The present paper evaluates the trade-off between economic development and environmental degradation with respect to different countries. The analysis is based on cross-country data on forest degradation and the level of economic development. It also examines the factors that affect environmental degradation. The study highlights that the rate of deforestation …
Stepping into a major environmental dispute, the Obama administration said Thursday that no new timber-cutting or road project could begin in roadless areas of national forests without the permission of the secretary of agriculture. The Agriculture Department, which issued a directive outlining the policy, called it an interim measure meant …
The Word Bank (WB) is satisfied with the spending of its funds in Bangladesh during the first five months of the present government and pledged increased assistance for rapid socio-economic development of the country. Pulok Chatterji, WB's executive director for the South Asian Region, made the recognition when he called …
The projects in the road sector for the present fiscal year would take 10 to 339 years to complete if the current rate of implementation persists, says a study of Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS). "A large number of road projects are often taken up on political considerations resulting …
LUCKNOW: PWD minister Naseemuddin Siddiqui while expressing displeasure over the poor quality of road construction in the state said that some officers are giving boost to corruption by showing repairing of same roads again and again. He said the concerning officers should assign the construction work to efficient and honest …
