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 …
KOLKATA, March 30: Unable to complete its slum development projects under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) scheme on time, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) now faces a cost escalation of around Rs 80 crore. This amount will be borne by the civic body. A civic official pointed …
MUMBAI: Why are bicycles, which don't pollute, take up little space, are cheap and have virtually no maintenance cost, not a popular mode of travel in Mumbai? According to activists and cycling enthusiasts, the reasons are a mindset that favours motorised vehicles and a lack of infrastructure to promote cycling …
AHMEDABAD: If development becomes driving force these general elections, there is surely one thing that the ruling party in Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) will wilfully avoid. Central committee on JNNURM had insisted that each of the multi-crore project it partly funded in city carry a placard that gives acknowledgement to …
Chandigarh: The UT Administration has given its approval for Municipal Corporation councillors to conduct a study tour in Gujarat. A communication to this effect was received on Monday. The clearance assumes significance as the proposals for study tours that were sent earlier had been rejected. In the last tour, 19 …
Mumbai: The Democratic Front government on Monday reiterated its commitment to transforming Mumbai into a world class city. In his address to the joint session of the state legislature at Vidahan Bhawan, the governor of Maharashtra SC Jamir outlined the socio-economic and political priorities of the Congress-NCP government. The 20-page …
Muktsar: Muktsar residents committing slow suicide by drinking 7-foot-deep water Everyday, Kotkapura Road residents, Vivek Sharma and his wife Neetu, get a 10-litre can filled from the Water Works office campus, after it closes. They don
Extension likely THE Centre may extend the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (jnnurm) beyond 2012, its current deadline. Planned with the objective of better cities and projects for the urban poor, the Rs 50,000 crore mission applies to 63 cities.
SANTOSH K. KIRO Clean-up act Ranchi, March 12: Kitchen waste will soon become valuable. The civic body in the state capital would set up a plant at Bero, some 35km from here, to convert the waste generated from households into compost
Gandhinagar: The Gujarat government has begun to draw up a city development plan (CDP) for Porbander following a Government of India (Gol) nod to include the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi as a Mission City under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JN-NURM). State urban development minister Nitin Patel told …
MUMBAI: The city's civic bus utility is expecting to augment the size of its fleet by 1,000 buses, of which 200 will be air-conditioned, by June. The Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport Undertaking (BEST) has applied for funds of Rs 300 crore under the Centre's Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal …
SANTOSH K. KIRO Ranchi, March 3: Jharkhand drinking water and sanitation department will jointly work with the Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) to carry out a Rs 288-crore drinking water supply project, sanctioned under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). The civic body agreed to assist RMC for the …
India's recent phenomenal prosperity has taken everybody by surprise. The rolling out of ambitious programmes and its right implementation has leapfrogged India into the category of fast developing countries. Taking over this mantle from the Centre, Maharashtra has become the first state to successfully implement the Centre's flagship schemes and …
The Government of India has formulated a National Urban Transport Policy (NUTP), 2006 which seeks to work out an approach for dealing with the rapidly growing problem of Urban Transport as also to offer a clear direction and framework for future action in the area of Urban Transport. The policy …
To boost public transport, Centre will help cities buy buses About 15,000 new buses are in the pipeline for 63 cities in the country. The Central urban development ministry launched a new scheme on January 12 to assist states and transport units buy buses for public transport under the Jawaharlal …
AHMEDABAD: In what could be said to pump adrenaline into BRTS project, the Centre has approved a rolling stock stimulus fund of Rs 282 crore for BRTS, new green CNG AMTS and feeder buses for BRTS network for Ahmedabad. These buses would not include the first 50 BRTS buses that …
ANKUSH SINGH Jamshedpur, Feb. 22: It will be some time before Jamshedpur gets funds under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). The Union urban development ministry has sought time to seek legal opinion before signing the Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) for the implementation of JNNURM schemes in Jamshedpur. …
