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 …
Since 70-80%of the urban India that is going to be there is yet to be built, with good sense it can be built right That an urban tsunami is going to hit India (it has already begun doing so) is well known. In 20 years, by 2030, the country must …
The latest Cooum river restoration project in Chennai aims to focus on slum eviction as an achievable first step. A 19-kilometre elevated expressway on the river is also planned. Together estimated to displace over 18,000 families from the banks of the Cooum, these two projects testify to how waterfront development, …
Reform of education and urban mgmt and priority for growth in the Gangetic belt are the key Nitin Desai / New Delhi May 20, 2010, 0:16 IST Population growth seems to have dropped off the public agenda these days. One reason for this is a twist in the old Malthusian …
The World Bank~ which has earned sharp criticism from the Left parties over the years~ seems to be the only hope for the CPI-M led state government to win back hearts of urban and rural populace ahead of 2011 Assembly polls. This time, the state government has secured the Centre's …
Two years ago, Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) had a leaking water supply system and defunct meters. It decided to launch a pilot project in the Dharampeth area, and put in new pipes and meters. Today, over 6,000 connections there have water round the clock— and are happy to pay for …
JAIPUR: The Rajasthan Government's Urban Development Department has selected 81 towns across the State for preparation of master plans during 2010-11 after the completion of the similar exercise for eight of the 20 towns selected in the previous year. The draft master plans for the rest of these cities are …
Mahatma Gandhi's words that India lives in its villages are still a truism. But the accelerating pace of urbanisation suggests that, much before the close of this century, India will indeed live in its cities. Going by current trends, 40 per cent of India's population will be living in urban …
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh now has a unique distinction. The state, after scaling new lows on several fronts, has now achieved another statistical feat most would shy away from. In a ranking of cities, along 19 sanitation parameters, conducted by the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) in New Delhi, 34 cities …
The Planning Commission has approved a Rs 18,260 crore Annual Plan outlay for the state for the ongoing fiscal. The Plan outlay includes Rs 11,100 crore from the state Budget, which is about 10 per cent more than last year
Ahmedabad: The slumdwellers, displaced due to the Sabarmati riverfront project, were allotted houses under economically weaker section (EWS) scheme in the city on Monday. In the first draw, 2,371 houses were allocated under the rehabilitation scheme, out of which 271 slum-dwellers living on the eastern bank, on the stretch between …
Sindh government will be spending Rs 440.800 million on the Establishment of Urban Policy and Strategic Planning Unit (EUPSPU) that is supposed to provide technical support to the Planning and Development Department, Business Recorder learnt on Tuesday. Sources in the Finance Department (FD) informed that the EUPSPU would have no …
Rapid urbanization, concretization, pollution are taking a toll on trees planted during the British period in Central Delhi, finds a survey by Forest Research Institute Ambika Pandit | TNN Age seems to be catching up with the towering and majestic trees lined up along the green stretches of central Delhi. …
This guide clarifies the concept of grievance redress mechanisms and presents the rationale for their implementation. It shows how grievance redress should be built into projects' policy and institutional frameworks as well as planning models. It also describes the key elements of grievance redress mechanisms and provides step- by-step guidelines …
"Energy Efficient Cities: Assessment Tools and Benchmarking Practices" has been developed from a careful review of selected papers presented during two ESMAP-sponsored sessions at the fifth World Bank Urban Research Symposium,
It is 9.30 am. The M block main park in Sundarnagri in New Delhi is gearing up for a meeting. Two men carry a microphone and speaker into it. While they fix the gadgets into place, two men enter on a bike, with a bag of rugs intended for seating …
Bhopal: Minister of State for Energy and Mineral Resources (Independent Charge) Rajendra Shukla has urged the Union government to help in the efforts to mobilise funds for increasing power generation and implementing power reforms. He said that a scheme has been chalked out for renovation of four units of Satpura …
Pune With the government changing the (Special Economic Zone)SEZ development norms, city-based DS Kulkarni Developers have decided to withdraw from the SEZ plan at Phursungi. In a meeting of the SEZ board under the aegis of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry held recently in New Delhi, the board has …
