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 …
NOTICEABLE DIFFERENCE: Pollution, congested development and lack of a railway system such as the MRTS are depriving residents of north Chennai of quality life. A picture of contrast between Tondiarpet and Saidapet. The lines dividing north and south Chennai are not only drawn across access to quality healthcare, education or …
In an astounding revelation, top state economist YK Alagh has calculated that Gujarat's land will become 70 per cent urban by the middle of the next decade. Addressing the annual convocation of Dharmasinh Desai University, Nadiad, on Saturday, Prof Alagh said, "Already, there are 2,018 villages in Gujarat which should …
The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the Delhi Development Authority, the Delhi Government and the Commonwealth Games Committee on an application for a direction to them to re-locate the sports stadiums to be constructed near Siri Fort auditorium to some other site as it involved cutting of over …
Nine more towns in Rajasthan have been selected for creating sewerage infrastructure under the Urban Infrastructure Development of Small and Medium Towns (UIDSMT) programme of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). A grand total of Rs.389 crore has been sanctioned for the projects which are likely to get …
The World Bank has started "reviewing and updating" the Rs 1,300-crore Andhra Pradesh Urban Reforms and Municipal Services project. APURMS had been undertaken jointly by the World Bank and the state government but has not been implemented in real earnest. The re-evaluation was necessitated as four years have elapsed since …
Though there is an economic boom in India there is a flipside to it too. According to estimates there are 80.7 million urban poor in India and a housing shortage of 24.7 million, says Kumari Selja, minister of state (independent charge), housing and urban poverty alleviation. In conversation with Yeshi …
A grade separator at the intersection of G.T. Road and Road No.56 near Apsara border and another at T-junction near Anand Vihar Inter-State Bus Terminus in the Capital's trans-Yamuna area are among six new projects worth Rs.909 crore that have been approved by the Expenditure Finance Committee of the Delhi …
on march 19, Maharashtra increased the floor space index (fsi) ratio in Mumbai's suburbs. State finance minister Jayant Patil said the new fsi will be 1.33. Earlier the figure was one. The decision, included in the state budget, brings suburbs on par with the island city which already has an …
Gandhinagar will be rocking, soon. Huge multiplexes, sprawling homes, synergized town planning schemes that will contain all the modern amenities you can dream of and other entertainment and shopping extravaganzas will invade the silence that envelops Gandhinagar after every sundown now. You can well call it the
The Delhi Cabinet on Thursday approved the signing of a memorandum of understanding with the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) for declaring Delhi a "World Heritage City'. It also cleared a proposal to grant huge concessions on purchase of battery-operated vehicles in the city. Besides, the …
A corridor from Peeli Kothi to Lothian Bridge to be built at a cost of Rs 75 crore Proposed in 2005 and shelved many times, the decongestion plan around Old Delhi Railway station may finally see the light of the day. Announced in the Budget 2007-08 as a part of …
With an aim to fulfill the dreams of the urban poor in the state to have their own house in the city, the Haryana Housing Board Authorities will construct about 50,000 dwelling units in the next three years. This was declared by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today, who was …
the majestic image you see on the right is going to fade away. The Crawford market in south Mumbai is going to be "redeveloped'. On March 10, amid strong protests from heritage activists, majority of the elected corporators in Mumbai approved the contentious Crawford market redevelopment plan. The municipality refused …
Asom Government today told the State Assembly that the Guwahati Master Plan would be finalized within 45 days. On the opposition by a section of people to the draft master plan, the Government said only some influential groups like Sahara and real estate businessmen have been opposing the draft plan …
If all goes well, an ambitious proposal to increase Floor Space Index (FSI) within the 250-metre radius of the BRTS corridor to encourage development along the route, is being planned by the state urban development department. It is proposed that all developers along the 120.5 km of the corridor can …
THE government may allow multilateral funding agencies such as World Bank and Asian Development Bank (ADB) to directly extend debt to urban local bodies (ULB). At present, the grants are routed through the central government, which passes it to the states. The move is expected to provide an alternative portfolio …
The state of Bangalore's civic body, Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), provides an object lesson on how not to run a city when the country is going through an unprecedented wave of urbanisation. This is tragic because the country's IT capital has so much going for itself. It has no …
Multiplicity of imagining cities is the core concern of this paper. Multiple images and arenas have shaped Indian cities. It is argued that the present city is being influenced by the global styles of architecture, urban design and technologies. That said, the creation of communities with glaring disparities in wealth …
Dunu Roy director of the Hazards Centre has been locked in combat with some vocal representatives of resident welfare associations (RWAs) over their right to shape plans for Delhi's future. The clash has taken place in cyberspace, with furious emails flying back and forth following the Delhi state government's proposal …
