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 …
Sreekantswamy B , Mysore, DH News Service: The Union Ministry of Urban Development has given its approval for nine projects under Public Contribution Fund (PCF), a programme that has been conceived under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). Mysore City Corporation (MCC) Superintendent Engineer B K Suresh Babu told …
The City Development Plan for Bhopal deals with a comprehensive, cohesive and concise manner, all the important elements of governance in the form of themes: Urban Growth Management/ Development Planning, Urban Basic Services and Infrastructure, Transportation and Traffic Management, Housing and Slums, Urban Environment, Social Development, Urban Governance and Management …
MUMBAI: Here is some good news for citizens reeling under the city's acute water shortage. The central government last week cleared the remaining Rs 94.16 crore needed for three important civic projects under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), among them two water tunnels from Malabar Hill to …
New Delhi: As tiling and concretising of the immediate area around tree roots goes unchecked in the city, the environment department has written to heads of various civic agencies, asking them to take action against this practice. In 2000, the UD ministry had issued several guidelines for greening of urban …
The Ministry of Urban Development has technically sanctioned a water drainage project for Bahini and Noonmati basin at Guwahati under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) at an estimated cost of Rs 125.36 crore. It would be taken up for consideration according to guidelines of JNNURM, said Minister …
The Supreme Court Thursday cleared the decks for the construction of the Commonwealth Games Village on the Yamuna bank. A bench headed by Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan dismissed a petition challenging the ongoing construction. `SITE NEITHER ON RIVERBED NOR FLOODPLAIN, SCIENTISTS' OPINION IGNORED' The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the …
JNNURM shows the way, but partially Since time immemorial, people have migrated from rural areas to towns and cities in the hope of finding employment. Cities are associated with opportunities
Under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission For the better: Mayor S. Sujatha chairing a meeting of the Corporation Council in Tiruchi on Wednesday. TIRUCHI: Tiruchi, Salem and Tirupur Corporations have qualified for inclusion under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) consequent to the Union government
Nagesh Prabhu BANGALORE: Redesigning, protests, delay in land acquisition, poor response from contractors, and re-tendering have delayed work on 17 infrastructure projects sanctioned for Bangalore and Mysore under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). In a way the State has failed to reap the benefits accruing to it …
It is impossible to replicate the Delhi Metro model Sunil Jain / New Delhi July 20, 2009, 0:04 IST Till even a few days ago, if you took a poll, despite the recent string of disasters in the Delhi Metro
Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission. Roudra Bhattacharya New Delhi, July 19 Four states, Bihar, Jharkhand, Tripura and Meghalaya and the Union Territory of Puducherry have not utilised any of the funds provided under the Urban Infrastructure and Governance (UIG) scheme of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) …
New Delhi: The plan of Ministry of Urban Development (MUD) to get exotic plants for Vasant Kunj Biodiversity Park has fallen flat with the Delhi High Court on Wednesday asking the Centre to stick to planting native tree species of the Aravali hills. The HC had earlier put a stay …
July 15: The Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, on Wednesday sought another Rs 10,000-crore from the Centre for the development of infrastructure and civic amenities in Greater Hyderabad. He requested the Union urban development minister, Dr S. Jaipal Reddy, to release the money under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban …
Kudumbasree self-help groups would run more than 1,000 bazars in as many places in the State during the Onam season. Master plans for 18 towns in Kerala are ready and the Government is in the process of preparing the plans for other towns, according to the Minister for Local Administration, …
NEW DELHI: Union Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Kumari Selja has asked Chief Ministers to amend the existing city planning models and prepare and implement
Making cities slum-free is well-worn rhetoric lacking credibility. When Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee promised, in his recent budget speech, that India would become slum-free in five years, there was little enthusiasm. The allocation of Rs.3,973 crore has failed to provide real hope. Slum clearance schemes, as they were previously known, …
