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 …
Shimla: The government will spend Rs 10.39 crore on creating various infrastructure facilities at the Pong Dam lake in the first phase under the Asian Development Bank-funded Infrastructure Development Investment Programme for Tourism. Director of Tourism Arun Sharma said his department would also promote community-based tourism activities for generating employment …
MUMBAI: The World Bank has come out strongly against delays on the construction of the Santa Cruz-Chembur Link Road (SCLR) and has called for greater coordination between the state implementing agency and the railways for completing the road. At a joint press conference with the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority …
Troubles are far from over for global steel giant Posco to set up its Rs 54,000 crore steel plant in Jagatsinghpur in Orissa with tribals in the area divided over allowing the Korean company to enter. Although Orissa
BHUBANESWAR: The Orissa Mining Corporation (OMC) will contribute ` 200 crore to be spent under the corporate social responsibility (CSR) through the Chief Minister
Haryana government has constituted a committee of secretaries on infrastructure (CoSI) under the chairmanship of the chief secretary to facilitate infrastructure development in the state under public private partnership (PPP) mode. The principal secretary to chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, financial commissioners and principal secretaries of revenue, planning, law and …
NEW DELHI: Three road infrastructure projects were inaugurated by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit in East Delhi on Tuesday paving the way for smoother travel in the area. Ms. Dikshit inaugurated a grade separator at ISBT Anand Vihar crossing on Road No.56, another grade separator on G.T. Road at Apsara …
Do local improvements in infrastructure provision improve city competitiveness? What public finance mechanisms stimulate local infrastructure supply? And how do local efforts compare with national decisions of placing inter-regional trunk infrastructure? This paper examine how the combination of local and national infrastructure supply improve city competitiveness, measured as the city’s …
BHUBANESWAR: This might appear a tall order but the State Government has set a goal of turning urban Orissa totally sanitised by 2016-17 in tune with the National Urban Policy. The Government, which aims at creating community driven healthy towns, has come up with the Urban Sanitation Strategy to free …
The Orissa Economic Survey, 2010-11 takes note of the efforts of the State Government to bring visible improvements in the State finances, to reduce Debt-GSDP ratio from 55.92% in 2002-2003 to the sustainable level of 23.24% in 2009-10, to create fiscal space for higher plan and capital outlays to propel …
It would not be wrong to say that virtually all infrastructure and industrial projects—from mining to thermal and hydel and nuclear power to cement or steel—are under attack today from communities who fear loss of livelihoods. These communities are at the forefront of India’s environmental movement. They are its warriors.
2010 was a loud year for the environment. High profile projects—from Vedanta to Posco and Navi Mumbai airport to Lavasa—hit the headlines for non-compliance with environmental regulations. While 2009 was the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal gas tragedy, it was only last year that we were all outraged by the …
Urban renewal, with a focus on inclusive development of urban centres, is one of the thrust areas in the National Common Minimum Programme and accordingly the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission was launched. This paper analyses the present urban development policies with a focus on coverage at the state …
GMR Infrastructure, the Bangalore-based developer of power plant, airports, roads and urban infrastructure, is understood to be closing in on its second coal mine acquisition in Indonesia. The mine is expected to cost close to $150 million and has reserves of close to 200 million tonne. In 2009, GMR had …
With an area close to 19,000 hectares in 78 villages in Kalyan and Bhiwandi under its control, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) is sitting on a potential goldmine. However, the authority
