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 …
Economic Survey of Maharashtra is prepared by the Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Planning Department every year for presentation in the Budget Session of the State Legislature. The present publication for the year 2013-14 is the 53rd issue in the series. The information related to various socio-economic sectors of the …
This new report on development and ecological sustainability in Uttarakhand by Ravi Chopra, environmentalist analyzes Uttarakhand, India, current development pattern in terms of equity and sustainability in the context of floods and landslides which affected the region. Says that the devastation in Uttarakhand on June 15-17, 2013 was aggravated many …
This new report by PricewaterhouseCoopers analyses the scale of current infrastructure investment and also assesses the prospects for future investment from now to 2025 across 49 of the world’s largest economies including India. Says that India will add another 500 million to its urban population over the next four decades …
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has warned Odisha government that sanction for development projects under Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) will be withdrawn if it fails to implement projects at faster rate. According NABARD, as on March 31, 189 projects with the RIDF loan of Rs.380.09 crore …
It’s curtains for the UPA government’s flagship programme, the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). The new Union Urban Development and Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Minister (HUPA), M. Venkaiah Naidu, who assumed office on Wednesday, said a new mission would be launched soon in place of JNNURM. The …
A two-year-old project to rejuvenate Varanasi's ghats could get a boost under the new government with the new tourism and culture minister, Shripad Naik, announcing he would discuss plans for the holy city with PM Narendra Modi. The tourism ministry in 2012 sanctioned Rs 18 crore to improve the ghats, …
Even as the UPA generously handed an unprecedented 702,000 hectares of forest land to industry, a litany of pending approvals awaits the new govt By mid-May, clearances for industry and infrastructure development amounting to 830,000 hectares of forests remain pending with the Centre and state governments. Some of these date …
Infrastructure projects are likely to get a major push under Modi's regime Land acquisition is the topmost hurdle in the execution of highway projects in the country and should be dealt with on a priority basis by the incoming government, a top official of the Ministry of Road Transport and …
An additional financial boost of USD 17.4M was received yesterday from the World Bank’s International Development Association credit. The money would be used to finance the second urban development project, in that to improve infrastructure services in northern Thimphu and support implementation of the urbanisation policies under the 11th Plan. …
Faster project clearances, improving the ease of doing business, boosting infrastructure investment, introducing the Goods and Services Tax and direct tax code and reassuring foreign investors on tax stability are key steps the new government must take to boost growth and bring confidence, say industry leaders. They hope the new …
Nepal is presently making efforts to move out of an extended political transition and has resolved to accelerate its graduation from a least developed to a developing country by 2022. The importance of inclusive growth and human development to sustain peace, achieved after a long conflict, has been deeply ingrained …
Karnataka’s refurbished five-year tourism policy, due to go in for Cabinet approval in June, plans to put the horse before the cart and address issues of infrastructure, manpower and safety first. New, theme-based travel destinations will be part of the package. Good roads to tourist hubs, toilets, certified guides and …
Having a decent job is widely recognised as the best way out of poverty. The private sector provides some 90 per cent of jobs in developing countries, and is thus an essential partner in the fight against poverty. It is also needed as an investor in sustainable agricultural production if …
Billions of pounds a year is being plundered from Africa through illegal logging and fishing that is prolonging poverty in the world's poorest continent, the former head of the United Nationssaid on Thursday. Kofi Annan's annual update on Africa says that money needed for a green revolution in agriculture and …
Infrastructure in Ethiopia is expected to get a boost as China vowed on Sunday to help upgrade the nation's power grid and road system. Deal signed to upgrade roads, grid in Ethiopia Premier Li Keqiang and his wife Cheng Hong arrive in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Sunday.China News Service The …
A Bill to provide for an enabling and facilitative environment in the State for design, construction, financing, operation and maintenance of Infrastructure projects, through public investment and also through private sector participation, and to provide for an institutional framework for identification, prioritization and effective implementation of such projects.
In order to facilitate and promote increasing role of Public Private Partnership in creation of new infrastructure assets as well as for the management of existing ones, the Government of Kerala proposes to lay down an explicit and comprehensive policy. The Policy being detailed herein will put in position a …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Jayshree Dansena Vs M/s Athena Chhattisgarh Power Private Ltd. dated 30/04/2014 regarding dynamite blasting at project site at Gram Singhitarai, Janjgir-Champa District in Chhattisgarh. The application was moved for the purpose of protecting lives and health …
Advanced techniques of multi-temporal InSAR (MT-InSAR) represent a valuable tool in ground subsidence studies allowing remote investigation of the behavior of mass movements in long time intervals by using large datasets of SAR images covering the same area and acquired at different epochs. Beijing is susceptible to subsidence, producing undesirable …
Bhopal is leaving a huge carbon footprint on the environment due to its energy consumption pattern and continuous depletion of green cover. There is a rapid increase in energy consumption by the urban population. And with the recent depletion in city's green cover in the name of development, the city …
