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 …
Funds to be used for building 24,000 km of roads The World Bank will offer a loan of $1.5 billion (about `6,800 crore) to India for building 24,000-km of all-weather roads in the rural areas of seven economically poor and hilly states like Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh. This is …
THE World Bank on Friday pledged $1.72 billion in loans to India, mainly for building 24,000 km of roads in rural areas. "It is the largest roads project to be approved by the bank," World Bank President Robert Zoellick said after a meeting with Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in Delhi. …
MUMBAI: The city's network of roads is ready to expand thanks to the new coastal regulation zone notification, which the Centre announced last Friday. The civic body has already indentified 69 arterial roads and thoroughfares in the eastern and western suburbs. Work on most of these roads or 'missing links' …
The evolution of antibiotic resistance (AR) increases treatment cost and probability of failure, threatening human health worldwide. The relative importance of individual antibiotic use, environmental transmission and rates of introduction of resistant bacteria in explaining community AR patterns is poorly understood. Evaluating their relative importance requires studying a region where …
Pune In 2007, the Congress-NCP alliance launched the ambitious Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) on a pilot route from Katraj to Hadapsar and later had to face protests from the Shiv Sena-BJP combine. However, its decision to extend the Bus Rapid Transit System on 27 more roads has not gone …
The standing committee of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Tuesday approved the BRTS (bus rapid transit system) on 27 more roads in the city. It will cost Rs98 crore for converting 101km into BRTS routes. It will be a mixed BRTS: PMPML buses and private vehicles will use 60km …
The city's administration aims to elevate the stature of Coimbatore so that its infrastructure can compare with the best in the country. WHEN a slew of development projects were placed before successive meetings of the Coimbatore Corporation Council in 2005-06 for its approval, the refrain at every session was
Santosh Singh Upwardly mobile Bihar is now set to become the first state in the country to use latest cellphone technology Android for central monitoring of road construction. Come January 10, Bihar State Road Development Corporation (BSRDC), under the Road Construction Department (RCD), will deploy Android to help executive engineers …
The Madhya Pradesh State Road Development Corporation has built 13 roads measuring 1772.58 kilometres in the state during the last 6 years. These roads have been built while ensuring quality through private-public participation under BOT Project. The state government contributed Rs 489.10 out of Rs one thousand 562 crore which …
The World Bank on Tuesday approved a $1.5 billion Credit and Loan for India's Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) aimed towards improving rural accessibility of roads. The new project will concentrate on the states of Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Meghalaya, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, and Uttar Pradesh, the Bank said in …
The Haryana government on Tuesday said it will construct a 156-km highway corridor to connect states on its south, including Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra, with those on its North such as Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir, to decongest Delhi. The four-lane corridor would commence from Kotputli in Rajasthan …
Light logbook 1857: Gas light (Chitpur) 1889: Electric light (Harrison Road/MG Road) 1970: Fluorescent lamps 1990: Sodium vapour lamps 2009: CFLs 2010: LED lamps The Calcutta Municipal Corporation has taken up a pilot project to illuminate parts of the city with environment-friendly light-emitting-diode (LED) lamps.
Shivakumar | ENS RTI query reveals contractor was paid `240 cr even before receiving clearance for the project THE `1,655-crore elevated expressway from Chennai Port Trust to Maduravoyal is yet to get government approval, according to information under the Right to Information (RTI). In a reply to an RTI application …
THIRUVANATHAPURAM: A crisis management committee, comprising Ministers, which 'felt' that all-weather roads are the need of the hour in the State, decided to set up a high-level expert committee to study the matter. The committee, which met here on Wednesday to discuss the battered state of roads, also set a …
It will connect NH-8 at Kotputli in Rajasthan to NH-10 in Rohtak, shortening the distance by 75 km, while providing an alternative route to skip Delhi Haryana has decided to provide the
Indronil Roychowdhury Bihar, the state where NHAI project manager Satyendra Dubey was killed for whistle blowing on road mafias, has built roads in the state at the cost of $420 million in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank. ADB also plans to release $300 million this month to bring another …
