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 …
A parliamentary panel has noted that Yamuna river seems "dirtier" than before despite Rs 6,500 crore having been spent on its clean-up even as a project to lay interceptor sewers along the three major drains of Delhi suffers delays. In its latest report, the Standing Committee on Urban Development has …
Rs. 4.30-crore deficit budget presented. Efforts will be on to save energy by replacing the 19,193 sodium vapour street lamps to light emitting diode (LED), enhance solar power generation and also extend it to private buildings, creating parking lots in four zones, besides planting nochi herbs in all houses to …
In what could be considered as their last meeting before the present term of central government comes to an end Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewable mission (JNNURM) has approved detailed project reports (DPR) worth Rs 95 crore for setting up water networks in old and new city areas of Surat. …
In an effort to make Madurai a clean city, the corporation has come down hard on shop keepers in and around Periyar bus stand and complex bus stand. Mayor V V Rajan Chellappa has instructed all the shop owners inside the bus stand premises to keep a dustbin in front …
Minister Of Environment And Forests, Dr. M. Veerappa Moily stated in the parliament tha the "Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has identified 150 polluted stretches along various rivers in the country based on BOD (Bio-chemical Oxygen Demand) levels, a key indicator of organic pollution. The pollution load on rivers of …
Aim is to ensure that funds do not lapse The State has decided to set up a special purpose vehicle (SPV) to operate and manage the buses procured with 80 per cent financial assistance from the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). Official sources told The Hindu that the …
Delhi Has Only Half Its Requirement Of 11,000 Buses, Number Of Private Vehicles Rising New Delhi:More than 46 lakh people use public transport, specifically buses, every day in Delhi. To meet this demand, there are 5,216 Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) buses and another 1,000 under the cluster bus scheme, but …
VISAKHAPATNAM: The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation's (GVMC) efforts to tackle revenue losses arising out of water supply to bulk consumers, most of whom are giant industrial units and public sector units like Visakha refinery of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), Eastern Naval Command, Visakhapatnam Port Trust, with the installation of …
State-level RPMC and 14 city RPMC’s to be set up A Reforms and Performance Management Cell (RPMC) at the State-level; 14 city RPMCs; preparation of State capacity building plan and integrated city plan; and appurtenant peri-urban area are the highlights of the Rs.49-crore city plan proposals cleared under the Jawaharlal …
After completing the first phase of the storm water drain project, the Coimbatore Corporation wing executing projects under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission has started taking steps to start the second phase. According to sources in the civic body, the JNNURM wing had almost completed the first phase …
In a bid to improve the public transport system here, the Centre has sanctioned 50 buses for the city under its Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) Scheme. The Patiala Municipal Corporation (MC) will launch the bus service and has identified 5 acre land near Ghalori Gate for setting …
The Union Urban Development Ministry has sanctioned 1,080 buses to seven States under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission programme. Projects related to ancillary infrastructure including depots, workshops and intelligent transport system have also been sanctioned. The State governments will have to procure these buses as per urban bus …
42-Km Pipeline From Dam To Deliver 1.3 TMC Of Water To City Pune: The standing committee of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) approved the second phase of the Bhama Askhed pipeline project. “The Alandi municipal council and the state forest department have submitted proposals for land acquisition. The PMC has …
Service levels as well as service efficiency of water supply continue to be poor across all Indian cities. Water PPPs in India have recorded significant achievements—notably a stated focus on leveraging private sector efficiencies for improved service delivery, rather than private sector finance alone. PPPs are one among options to …
New Delhi: Government spending of over Rs 46,000 crore on infrastructure augmentation under UPA’s flagship JNNURM scheme seems to have improved key indicators of urban life in India and reached the poorest of poor. The recent National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) data shows that over 90% of slumdwellers feel water …
Hyderabad: While Andhra Pradesh has the second largest slum population in the country after Maharashtra, government surveys show that about 60 per cent of urban slums in the state are located on privately owned land. Interestingly, the National Sample Survey Office report states that half of these slums have been …
Despite the slowing economy and high inflation, the number of urban slums have fallen by nearly a third while the access to electricity, water and sanitation has improved across households in the four year period up to 2012. But worryingly, nearly 60 per cent of rural households continue to have …
At a time when the government talks about inclusive growth, more than 66 years after Independence almost 60 percent of people staying in rural India do not have access to latrine facilities, official data released here Tuesday showed. Data released by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), under the Ministry …
To promote green technology and attract passengers to make use of public transport, the Jaipur City Transport Service limited (JCTSL) will soon introduce articulated (double buses) and hybrid (battery operated) buses in the city. According to officials, a total of four buses, including two articulated and two hybrid buses, will …
Proposing a massive housing scheme for slum dwellers in municipalities and town panchayats, the State government has planned to construct around 2.15 lakh dwelling units at a cost of about Rs.13,455 crore. If this proposal were to fructify, 25 per cent of urban slum families in these two categories of …
