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 …
Real estate values have reached new heights along Metro routes in Delhi, a study has found, revealing that a Metro station in the locality pushes up prices by at least 22 per cent. At the ongoing Urban Mobility Conference in the Capital, Professor H M Shivanand Swamy of the Centre …
Sandeep Joshi Prime Minister Manmohan Singh presents the JNNURM Award for Best City and Mass Transit Projects to Mumbai, during the National Conference on the JNNURM, in New Delhi on Thursday. NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday asserted that the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government was committed to …
Even the number of cars plying on the city roads, fuelled by low-budget options, continue to go on an upward curve, the Union Urban Development Minister Jaipal Reddy said he is not
The Draft Master Development Plan for Jaipur Region prepared for the horizon year 2025 is approved in the Jaipur Development Authority 57th Authority Meeting Dated 14/10/2009. It is notified for objections and suggestions under section 23(1) of Jaipur Development Authority Act 1982 vide notification JDA/STPMP/2009/09/D312 dated 06/11/2009. http://121.242.213.11/Jaipurjda/DMDP4download.aspx
Today, 370 million people live in cities in earthquake prone areas and 310 million in cities with high probability of tropical cyclones. By 2050, these numbers are likely to more than double. Mortality risk therefore is highly concentrated in many of the world
Recognizing the ever-increasing vulnerability of coastal urban cities in Asia due to climate change impacts and variability and also due to fast-growing urban development, this study focusing on climate disaster resilience is conducted in order to measure the existing level of climate disaster resilience of the targeted areas using a …
Land is the heart of infrastructure development. The first India Infrastructure Report (IIR), which was brought out in 2001, identified the process of land acquisition as the most important structural constraint to the development of infrastructure. This IIR 2009 to examine various facets of
MUMBAI: In a bid to bring about greater transparency in the utilisation of funds allotted for urban development projects, the civic body will video-tape its under construction buildings and post it on its portal. Agencies will soon be appointed for the video-shoots. The BMC took this decision following a state …
The Central Government is likely to allocate additional Rs 1,000 crore for the 2010 Commonwealth Games under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Renewal Mission (JNNURM). Top sources said that both Ministry of Urban Development and Ministry of Home Affairs have given green signal to use funds under JNNURM for the project …
PRASHANT PANDEY Three more cities -- Ambala, Kanpur and Dehra Dun -- were on Wednesday included on the list of counter-magnet cities for the national capital region (NCR) with the aim to check migration in Delhi. The funding for the development projects in these cities may be made available through …
LUCKNOW: Top rung of state urban development authority (SUDA) went into a damage control exercise on Tuesday, a day after the Centre pointed a finger at UP, clubbing it with four other states for performing poorly in integrated low cost sanitation (ILCS) scheme for urban poor. In a categorical reference …
While the Delhi Government has revised DTC fares to overcome the financial crunch, the irony is that it is all set to spend again about Rs 60 lakh after having spent Rs 35 lakh earlier only to `study' the feasibility of Rs 1,100 crore elevated East-West Corridor connecting Anand Vihar …
Managing a country's limited resources for development purposes is not exactly taught even in the world's best B-schools. It comes with years of ground experience and foresight. Not so for India, which is neither endowed with rich resources, nor has it, like many countries, learnt to use its resources to …
The unbundling of services and technological innovations, particularly in the areas of sanitation and water supply and SWM has opened up these areas to the private sector. Also, global trends show that the private sector has been able to mobilize funds necessary to finance infrastructure projects and that it is …
The urbanisation of the state has thrown up a number of challenges. The re-distribution of political power away from the villages, the migration of large numbers of people to cities (including from other states), the changing nature of the new economy, the threats to the environment and the character of …
Gandhinagar: The World Bank (WB) has agreed to enhance total funds to be made available for development and modernization of urban infrastructure in selected towns from $162.5 million to a maximum of $300 million. WB is seeking to aid non-Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (non-JNNURM) cities, even as insisting …
Ranchi/Jamshedpur, Oct. 21: After three years of wait, Jamshedpur can finally reap benefits under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). A memorandum of agreement to this effect was signed in Delhi today. The JNNURM funds will, however, come with a rider. Only an urban conglomerate, excluding Tata Steel …
