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Judgment of the National Green Tribunal regarding thousands of trees facing danger due to illegal mining, Rupnagar district, Punjab, 19/03/2025

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 …

Time to use plastic waste for laying city roads

S. Annamalai Other States and civic bodies have taken a lead in utilising it Experimental:A portion of Vilachery Road in the city laid with waste plastic, which has withstood the onslaught of rains. , Dean, Thiagarajar College of Engineering:

Boulevards Of Dreams

Frank Lloyd Wright, the American architect, once said that to look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of fibrous tumour. It is probably an apt description of how India

Rs 1,300 cr for Punjab roads

Patiala: Public Works Department (PWD) minister Parminder Dhindsa has said as many as Rs 1300 crore would be spent on the construction of the new flyovers and roads in the state. Dhindsa stated this at the prize distribution function of the Maharaja Ranjit Singh Senior Secondary Public School here today. …

After hiccups, riverside road project back on track

Pune Construction of the road from Shivane to Kharadi along the Mutha river, delayed after being initiated and stopped twice thereby pushing up the project cost by Rs 200 crore, will finally be started by the Pune Municipal Corporation. The Mutha river cuts across the city. The civic body plans …

State to seek Rs 1,300cr Central aid: Cabinet

THIRUVANATHAPURAM: The State Government on Wednesday decided to seek a financial assistance of Rs 1,300 crore from the Centre for the maintenance of roads in the state. Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan said after the cabinet meeting that the heavy rains in the state had resulted in the collapse of several …

ADB to lend $300 m more for road development in Bihar

ASIAN Development Bank, or ADB, is ready to channel a fresh $300 million loan to Bihar for developing state roads which were one of the keys to Nitish Kumar

Chennai, Ennore ports to release funds for road project: Vasan

Priority for upgrading all major ports so as to attain global standards CHENNAI: In the next few days, Rs.24 crore will be released by the Chennai Port Trust and Ennore Port as its contribution towards Ennore-Manali Road Improvement Project (EMRIP), said Shipping Minister G.K. Vasan on Friday. Addressing a dinner …

World Bank to fund $200 mn for State roads

SHILLONG: The World Bank has sanctioned a loan of Rs 1070 crore ($200 million) for implementation of the Prime Minister's Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) in the State. Informing this in the Assembly on Thursday, Home Minister HDR Lyngdoh, also in-charge of PWD, said the State Government would receive the amount …

Thiruvananthapuram East to be pothole-free

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Government has decided to make all the PWD roads in the Thiruvananthapuram East constituency pothole-free by December 31. In a meeting convened by V Sivankutty MLA, the officials of various departments were asked to carry out works related to sewarage and roads in the area. The meeting decided …

Cement Concrete Road Construction In Villages Is A Big Challenge

Panchayat, Rural Development and Social Justice Minister Gopal Bhargava said that the Madhya Pradesh Government has accepted a big challenge of constructing cement concrete roads in 52 thousand villages. He asked the construction agencies to use such techniques with which quality roads at less cost shall be constructed. While inaugurating …

Methodology for estimating carbon footprint of road projects- case study: India

Carbon footprint is a tool commonly used to describe the total amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions for which an individual or organization is responsible. The South Asia Department (SARD) of the Asian Development Bank carried out this study to explore possible approaches and methods to calculate …

Zirakpur-Parwanoo stretch to be ready by January, NHAI tells HC

The Zirakpur-Parwanoo section of National Highway-22 is scheduled to be opened to traffic by January 2011, the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has claimed. In the status report filed before the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday, Anil Dahiya, Project Director, NHAI, said there had been a 87.5 …

A signal-free drive to Taj in 3 years

New Delhi: The drive to Taj Mahal through NH 2 will become faster and nearly signalfree in the next three years. NHAI plans to build flyovers or underpasses at all traffic intersections on the route, including one at Ashram Chowk in the capital, and a major private developer will start …

BRTS liability increases with elevated road

Avanindra Mishra |TNN Jaipur: The elevated road at Shipra Path and New Sanganer road has also been included in the amended proposal of the Bus Rapid Transit System. Estimated to cost around Rs 64 crore, the elevated road was earlier proposed for heavy vehicle movement.

Methodology: How the states were ranked

If you want to rank states, there are two broad roads to follow. First, you can administer questionnaires and respondents' reply to specific questions. This route, however, presumes that respondents know about all the states you wish to rank. Typically, that doesn't happen. Respondents know about states they operate in …

Roads to Gir sanctuary to be closed during nights

GANDHINAGAR: The Gujarat government has decided to close all the roads passing through the Gir national sanctuary

Centre okays Rs 1200 cr road project in Odisha

The Centre on Thursday approved a Rs 1,200 crore road project in Odisha to improve connectivity in extremist-hit parts of the state, as well as linking the areas to neighbouring states. The Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure (CCI) approved taking up improvement of balance 600 km of state roads in Odisha …

160 trees to face axe for road-widening

As many as 160 trees will be axed to make way for widening the Suranjan Das Road connecting the Old Madras Road and the Old Airport Road. Twenty-eight of these trees have already been felled, delivering a severe blow to the area

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