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 …
in kerala, the ruling coalition, the Left Democratic Front, is divided over the Asian Development Bank's (adb) loan for urban improvement. An agreement was signed between the government and adb on December 8, 2006, for a sum of Rs 1,061 crore for the Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Project. Chief minister …
This paper examines urban health in low- and middle-income countries, in relation to two sets of environmental issues: persistent local environmental health burdens, and most notably the water, sanitation and housing deficiencies prevalent in the poor neighbourhoods of so many urban settlements; and emerging global environmental burdens that will be …
J&K; project through: The Jammu and Kashmir High Court recently granted a stay on a decision by the state government to cancel a contract for the 1,200-MW Sawalakote hydroelectric power project. The project is coming up on the river Chinab in Doda district. Based on a petition filed by the …
on october6, 2006 the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (kspcb) withdrew the consent for establishment it had granted to Bangalore-based Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprises (nice) for the Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor Project (bmicp). The primary goal of this project is to build a six-lane expressway (see map: Carriageway) between the two …
karnataka's decade-old plan for creating a Greater Bangalore entity has finally got a fillip with the state government's recent go-ahead for the merger of seven city municipal councils (cmcs), one town municipal council (tmc) and over 100 villages within the Bangalore metropolitan area under the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (bmp) limits. …
Urban India is beginning to explode. The question is if our cities will be able to manage this growth or will they just burst at the seams? The reason I ask this is because we still don't have a clue about what urban growth will mean for us. We cannot …
On December 3, 2005, prime minister Manmohan Singh launched "the single largest initiative of the Government of India for a planned development of our cities'. The programme, the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (jnnurm), acknowledged that urbanisation was a "relentless process' that had caused an acute urban crisis. Infrastructure …
Hyderabad has submitted a wish list worth Rs 20,017 crore to MoUD, under JNNURM. The ministry's central sanctioning and monitoring committee has approved Rs 379 crore and released Rs 33.22 crore as the first instalment. Hyderabad Urban Agglomeration's (HUA's) population is likely to increase from 5.7 million in 2001 to …
The preparation of the CDP for Lucknow has been undertaken in the context of the JNNURM. Although Lucknow formally qualifies for JNNURM funding for being a state capital, it also is a million plus city and has a rich heritage. The CDP offers a city assessment, a vision for the …
The CDP provides both a perspective and vision for the development of a city. It presents the current stage of city’s development, sets out directions of change, identifies thrust areas, suggests alternate routes & strategies & interventions for bringing about the change, provides framework and vision within which projects need …
On December 3, 2005, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh launched the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (jnnurm). The ambitious mission, worth Rs 100,000 crore, promises to reform and rebuild 63 Indian cities, which will be identified subject to the willingness of the state governments to
The CDP aims at developing Srinagar as major tourist city by addressing the issues of ecological preservation, economic growth, poverty, good governance, development of infrastructure, improve traffic and transportation and delivery of basic services to the urban poor through a consultative process of strategizing and visioning. A collective city vision …
Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission has been launched by Govt. of India in the year 2005-2006 to carry out development of selected city. To access the funds under JNNURM, the selected city is required to prepare City Development Plans (CDPs) and implement the reforms at the state and the …
As per 2001 population census 285.35 million people reside in urban areas. It constitutes 27.8% of the total population of the country. In post-independence era while population of India has grown three times, the urban population has grown five times. The rising urban population has also given rise to increase …
Your major projects in India? We plan 4-6 Royal Garden Cities (rgc), with total live/work/play environments for 300,000-500,000. rgc s will be completely web-enabled, a world-class, self-contained city with state-of-the-art infrastructure. We are already working on one near Bangalore. What about basic infrastructure? Our cities would be standalone eco-friendly cities, …
Letter from Maharashtra Pollution Control Board to the Secretary, MOEF on the environmental clearance for a tourism project/hill station in Mulshi and Velhe Talukas of Pune District, Maharashtra dated July 15 2005.
karnataka's vendors' associations are lobbying for the implementation of the National Policy for Urban Street Vendors, passed by the Union ministry of urban development and poverty alleviation in 2004, in the state. They want the state government to grant them legal status by issuing identification cards and permitting vending in …
At one point in the epic Mahabharata, the pandavs and kauravs go to warfare school. Amid thick forests, they train hard. Then, the time comes when they must leave. Yudhister, the eldest pandav, gifts the space as guru dakshina to his guru, Dronacharya. In time, there came up a town …
http://www.saukaryam.org International accolades are pouring in for Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation's (vmc) cyber initiative, Project Saukaryam (convenience). Awards received include the United Nations Development Programme (undp) cyber city award 2002, to add to the prestigious Stockholm Challenge International Award (public service) in 2001 to name just two. Designed by Sanjay Jaju, …
