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 …
The National Green Tribunal on Monday admitted an application against the concretising and covering of the Kushak/ Satpula Drain in South Delhi and the Shahdara Link drain in East Delhi. The application filed by Manoj Misra of the Yamuna Jiye Abhiyan raised the issue of the “destructive works” at the …
The state government got a rap on the knuckles from the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) for its urban local bodies flouting JNNURM norms. They have also been slammed for lack of planning and delay in projects. In its report for year ended March 2012, CAG has come …
Kerala has been asked to set up a special purpose vehicle (SPV) for operating and managing the buses procured by the State with assistance of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). Setting up the SPV is the main condition put forward to the Local Self-Government Department by the …
The Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) will carry out a special environmental degradation study of the putrid St Inez creek, after the monsoons, over a period of one year. The study would explore and establish the sources responsible for degradation of the creek. The Board has decided to clean …
Arunachal Pradesh government has approved in principle the revised city development plan for the State Capital for its planned growth and accelerated development. Chief Minister Nabam Tuki approved the plan after a threadbare discussion on a blueprint presented by Intercontinental Consultants & Technocrats Private Ltd, a consultancy agency, under the …
The Central Government on Monday submitted before the Kerala High Court that it had already declined a request by the state government to ply buses allotted to Kochi city under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) scheme, to destinations outside the city limits. Counsel for the Centre T …
The World Bank had agreed to finance a Rs 443 crores project to check the flow of sewer water into Ganga. Under this project, 250km of new sewer lines would be laid in the city. A team of World Bank had visited various wards of the city with the officials …
The Coimbatore Corporation has chosen a Bangalore-based firm to generate 500 MW power from the waste accumulated in the Corporation areas under a public-private partnership project. Of the five firms that had submitted solid waste management proposals for processing 500 tonnes, the Bangalore firm was short-listed by a committee. The …
The Himachal Road Transport Corporation (HRTC) has urged the Centre to provide an additional 1,000 buses to it under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) for Himachal to improve its services in the hill state. Addressing a press conference here today, Transport Minister GS Bali said of the …
Hailing Karnataka’s efforts in providing better public transport system, the Centre on Wednesday sanctioned 2,104 buses to the State under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM). A high-level committee headed by Sudhir Krishna, secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, sanctioned the buses to Karnataka, to be deployed in Bangalore. “As …
Pune: To encourage citizens to segregate wet and dry waste, the municipal corporation in Pimpri Chinchwad will soon start distributing two small garbage bins free of cost among 4.65 lakh households here. The civic body will purchase over 9.3 lakh garbage bins in two colours __ white for wet and …
Another groundwater recharge zone will be lost. A project to cover a huge stormwater drain in Chirag Dilli for conversion into a parking lot has angered environmentalists. The drain that starts in Pushp Vihar and passes through Sheikh Sarai and Panchsheel Enclave travelling right up to Ring Road is 5km …
Agency Sitting On . 760-Cr Cash Pile From An Earlier JICA Loan Kochi: After authorities sought to include the second phase of Vyttila Mobility Hub under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), it’s the turn of Rs 900-crore Kalamassery drinking water project to be considered for the central …
The Centre has sanctioned two sewerage integration and treatment plant projects totalling Rs 479 crore for the state to be implemented under the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) scheme. The projects will be implemented at Budge Budge and Barrackpore. A World Bank team is scheduled to visit the city …
To put an end to unplanned haphazard development, the Secunderabad Cantonment Board has decided to prepare a land-use plan that will identify and demarcate the roads and areas of the Cantonment into residential, commercial, semi-commercial, transportation, recreational and green area among others zones. Secunderabad Cantonment chief executive officer Sujatha Gupta …
Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) commissioner MV Satyanarayana said that the state steering committee (SSC) of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) had approved Rs 654.40 crore worth of projects proposed by the civic body. The SSC headed by chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy approved the project …
The State government has proposed 61 new projects for Bangalore and Mysore under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM). The projects include grade separators, public transport, storm water drains, etc. The estimated cost of the projects is Rs 5,265.22 crore, Minister for Urban Development, Vinay Kumar Sorake, said …
Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) plans to purchase 665 buses under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). Bapu Gaikwad, assistant transport planner of the civic traffic cell, said, “The Union government has sent letters to various cities, including Pimpri Chinchwad, informing them that it had extended …
Rajasthan will shortly get Rs.2,200 crore from the Centre under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) for purchasing 1,000 new low-floor buses for plying in 10 cities, including Jaipur and Ajmer-Pushkar. State Additional Chief Secretary (Urban Development) G. S. Sandhu said at a conference on urban governance organised …
Kochi: Putting the city corporation in a tight corner, the local fund audit department has found many flaws, including miserly spending, while implementing projects under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Mission (JNNURM). As per the audit report of the project, the local body had spent only 28.72% of the total …
