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 …
Finally, work has begun to quench the thirst of Mohali and other parts of the Greater Mohali area by bringing 40 MGD (million gallon daily) water from Bhakra Main Line (BML) in Kajauli. The Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) has awarded the project
The objectives of this scheme are: To develop urban infrastructure facilities such as transport, drinking water, sewerage, drainage and solid waste management etc. at satellite towns / counter magnets around million plus urban agglomeration (UAs) covered under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) and to channelize their future growth …
Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) today scrapped the master plan of 1983, on the basis of which the present anti-encroachment drive is being carried out in the capital, and sent the same for ratification by the urban development department, even as bulldozers remained silent through the day as protesters hit the …
The environmental problems confronting Indian cities today have arisen because millions of people have been forced to live in illegal settlements that lack adequate sanitation and other basic urban services. This is the result of two factors. The first is the legacy of the colonial city characterized by inequitable access …
Slums, informal settlements, and dilapidated inner-city tenements are problems that many cities in Asia and the Pacific struggle with while their economies try to modernize and develop. Their existence puts at risk not only these economies but also poor people occupying vulnerable areas that climate change and natural disasters will …
The gross negligence of Mysore Urban Development Authority and Mysore City Corporation has resulted in encroachment of government land in Vijaynagar and surrounding areas, writes Ramesh S Kebbehundi The popular adage 'Water, water everywhere not a single drop to drink' applies to Vijaynagar and surrounding areas in the city. Though …
Union Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath on Thursday assured Mayor Krishna Gaur who called on him along with the Urban Administration and Development (UAD) Minister Babulal Gaur that the Central Government would provide additional funds for the Narmada project and Bus Rapid Transport System (BRTS) project of the State capital. …
A group of architects have started an initiative, Vision 2050, to create three different models for the planning of Delhi. Printer Friendly Page Send this Article to a Friend URBAN DEVELOPMENT Unique vision AJOY ASHIRWAD MAHAPRASHASTA A group of architects have started an initiative, Vision 2050, to create three different …
MUMBAI: The BMC has issued commencement certificates to 11 public parking towers-eight in the Parel-Dadar belt and three in Goregaon-for 15,845 vehicles, according to the latest official figures. The structures will be about 10-15 storey high. These certificates were issued before chief minister Prithviraj Chavan early this month ordered a …
Panchkula MC Budget; Nothing for slums; last year only Rs 3.69 cr was spent on development work. In its first meeting in a year, the Panchkula Municipal Council (MC) passed its budget unanimously for fiscal 2011-12. An amount of Rs 37.75 crore has been earmarked for development works whereas last …
Isher Ahluwalia-led panel says the govt should invest at least . 32.4 lakh cr in 20 years The government needs to scale up urban development funding by at least 15% per annum in the 12th Plan (2011-17) to meet the challenges of rapid urbanisation in the country, an expert committee …
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) will now audit the land acquisition policy of the Haryana government to examine the alleged irregularities in the acquisition of agricultural land and compensation paid to the farmers. Sources have stated that a CAG team from Delhi has been dispatched to Chandigarh …
The responsibility of municipalities to provide crucial services is being increasingly passed on to the resident welfare associations located in middle and upper middle class areas in cities. Similar tools of intervention are absent in the slums and low-income neighbourhoods and even the local ward committees fail to represent their …
The BMC has received India Tech Excellence award for closing its 19.6 hectare Gorai dumping ground in a scientific manner. BMC is the first civic body in country that has encashed carbon credit reducing greenhouse gas emission and earned Rs24.50 crore. India Tech Excellence award is given by the central …
NEW DELHI: As it struggles to get a grip on its finances in the post-Commonwealth Games scenario, the Delhi government on Monday got a Central grant of Rs 1257.86 crore in the Budget. Up from last year's Rs 1080.51 crore, this year's grant sets aside Rs 500 crore for infrastructure …
This Report comes to the conclusion that India’s economic growth momentum cannot be sustained if urbanisation is not actively facilitated. Nor can poverty be addressed if the needs of the urban poor are isolated from the broader challenges of managing urbanisation. Cities will have to become the engines of national …
This paper explores notions of participation as located in ‘second generation’ or institutional reforms, particularly as articulated by prominent state-sponsored public-private partnerships such as the Bangalore Agenda Task Force (BATF) and the Tamilnadu Urban Development Fund (TNUDF). These ‘model’ partnerships provided key programmatic elements that became the basis of national …
The state government has received the go-ahead from its consultants to raze the 90-metre hillock near the proposed Navi Mumbai airport for levelling the land. A review meeting regarding the airport was held with US-based project consultant Louis Berger at the CIDCO office on Monday afternoon. They have given their …
