Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Sobha Singh & Ors. vs. State of Punjab & Ors dated 15/09/2015 regarding remedial measures for polluted River Satluj. Previous Order
Chhattisgarh is all set to adopt the US model of developing dedicated Public Transport corridors in its cities. The development of a highly evolved Public Transport System with dedicated corridors, will begin from the road connecting Swami Vivekananda Airport to Raipur city, said Chhattisgarh’s Urban Administration and Development Minister Amar …
Panaji: Goa's capital city was chosen by the Union government as one of the 100 smart cities to be developed in the country. The list was released as part of the first stage of the smart cities mission by Union urban development minister Venkaiah Naidu in Delhi on Thursday afternoon. …
This year State may get two as Centre plans to develop only 20 cities Officially, the Centre has announced that Tamil Nadu, one of the most urbanised States in the country, will get 12 smart cities. That is all the 12 corporations in the State will get the Smart City …
The report for revenue sector indicated illegal mining in the state while doing scrutiny of files and registers of 13 district mining officers for the period between May 2013 to February 2014. The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) tabled its report for the year ended March 31, 2014, in the …
BHOPAL: Not just state capital Bhopal, but all civic bodies in the state are not adhering to municipal solid waste (MSW) rules for management and handling of solid waste, according to environmentalist Subash Pandey. It was on his petition national green tribunal (NGT), central zone bench directed for clean-up of …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) for water and sanitation, 12/08/2015. State Governments/ULBs have implemented JnNURM projects in PPP mode. The details of said 44 projects implemented in PPP mode are furnished at Annexure-I. The water supply and sanitation projects are on-going with the assistance of International Bank …
VARANASI: Sanitation and cleanliness in the city are the prime concerns for the city. The reason is the failure of solid waste management (SWM) project that was launched under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) in 2009. The solid waste management (SWM) in the city is in a pitiable …
PUNE: The 7.1km Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) corridor between Vishrantwadi and Sangamwadi, where trial runs have been going on for two days, is better than the pilot project launched nine years ago, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has claimed. What sets it apart is the branding and the uniformity …
Finally, a big respite has come for residents of Dehradun city, especially of the Sahastradhara area who have been living a miserable life near the trenching ground of the Dehradun Municipal Corporation (DMC). After a long struggle of eight years, the state government yesterday gave the DMC approval to go …
Uttar Pradesh has sent out a list of 13 cities to the Government of India for development as Smart Cities. Apart from state capital Lucknow, seven cities from western UP—Ghaziabad, Meerut, Aligarh, Saharanpur, Moradabad, Bareilly, Agra, and Rampur—have made the cut for being considered as Smart Cities under guidelines prescribed …
With Gurgaon having failed to find a place among the top two cities that would represent Haryana in the Centre's 'Smart City Challenge', chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Wednesday said the state government will develop Gurgaon as the "smartest city" on its own. "Gurgaon is already a smart city …
The Directorate of Urban Local Bodies, Haryana, has served a time-bound notice on all municipal councils to stake claim to the smart city status. The civic bodies have been asked to submit details within a week. Out of 100 such cities across the country, the Government of India has chosen …
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi launching the smart city project in New Delhi recently, the Municipal Corporation of Jalandhar (MCJ) has geared up to get the city included in the project. The MCJ is trying hard to give the city a 21st-century “smart city” look, an urban-planning term for the …
The ambitious plans of rejuvenating the Sabarmati riverfront with treated sewage water — a project which was shelved for the last several months for want of Central government approval — will now be revived. The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) had earlier applied for funds under the JnNURM scheme, but after …
Agartala: Tripura will present the success story of Light Emitting Diode (LED) illumination of Agartala tomorrow to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and all other Indian city administrators at Vigyan Bhawan. Tripura Urban Development Minister Manik Dey on Wednesday said that Ministry of Urban Development has convened a meeting of urban …
Cities accommodate nearly 31% of India's current population and contribute 63% of GDP (Census 2011). Urban areas are expected to house 40% of India's population and contribute 75% of India's GDP by 2030. This requires comprehensive development of physical, institutional, social and economic infrastructure. All are important in improving the …
The Coimbatore Corporation could go in for an overhaul of the solid waste management system. According to sources, the overhaul would be the result of its simmering feud with the Coimbatore Integrated Waste Management Company Limited, which manages the second collection and waste processing in the Vellalore yard. The Corporation …
Urban Transportation in Indian Cities provides 13 examples of initiatives to improve service delivery of urban transport. For each, the study features a description of the project, success factors, budgetary implications, performance, impact, challenge and lessons learned.
AGRA: As many as 21 of the 41 drains (nullahs) in the city directly discharge sewage into the river Yamuna instead of being routed through a treatment plant, according to Jal Nigam officials. Moreover, the condition of the remaining 20 nullahs which are connected to a treatment plant overflow during …
