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 …
Infrastructure needs to be defined to make policy interventions meaningful as we prepare for massive investments in the 12th Plan Vinayak Chatterjee / New Delhi June 21, 2010, 0:08 IST Why, you may well ask, do we need to define infrastructure at all? Well, a practical definition is required for …
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Government's Urban Development Department has issued comprehensive and revised instructions for better, rational and scientific utilisation of MLA LAD (local area development) fund to ensure that residents benefit from infrastructure development at the earliest, Delhi Finance and Urban Development Minister A.K. Walia has said. The Minister …
The UPA government's policies on infrastructure have not translated into any substantial benefits for the poor. Adequate infrastructure is among the most critical physical requirements for attaining fast economic growth and for encouraging investment in the backward regions of the country. The Planning Commission has suggested that the total investment …
V. Rishi Kumar The World Bank is poised to close funding few more urban sector projects in the country. After initiating works on some urban infrastructure projects, proposals to fund more in several States are at advanced stage of evaluation, said Mr Songsu Choi, Lead Urban Economist, South Asia Region, …
In order to meet the increasing need for urban growth, the urban development ministry today said it planned to include 28 more cities in the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), the central government
India is witnessing a big wave of public-private-partnership projects in various sectors to quicken the pace of infrastructure development. The current impetus on such partnerships comes due to several factors that have shifted the responsibility of infrastructure development from public agencies to private enterprises. The first is the desire to …
Dharavi in Mumbai exemplifies what is most ugly and what is most inspiring about slum life in a city. How should it be redeveloped to remove the ugliness and yet retain its community spirit, enterprise, ambitions and hope? Current plans are focused on profit-making, by developers and government, with the …
IS THE COUNTRY READY FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES? DR. PAWAN GOENKA PRESIDENT,M&M;,AUTOMOTIVE & FARM EQUIPMENT SECTOR YES:More than a decade ago when Mahindra and Mahindra was still largely a jeep and tractor maker, we had decided to look beyond our immediate focus of the automobile sector. We took on the mantle …
The public hearing for Navi Mumbai International Airport was conducted by Maharashtra State Pollution Control Board on 5th May, 2010 at Anant Pandurang Bhoir Vidyalaya of Public Consultation. Proceedings was made available to CIDCO Ltd., to prepare the final EIA study report by incorporating points of environmental concern received during …
LUCKNOW: Come September and each honk in the city would register itself at the national level. With MoEF keeping its date with the ambitious `national ambient noise monitoring network' project, there are hardly any chances that city's high decibels will be missed. UPPCB has started "procuring equipment" to set up …
Prakash Kamat The Goa Chief Minister, Mr Digambar Kamat, on Tuesday sought the intervention of the Centre in resolving the imbroglio between the State Government and the south Goa-based major port Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) over the latter's development and infrastructure expansion projects. Responding to the questions from journalists over …
Mumbai: Realising the importance of environmental balance, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). The agreement was signed by MMRDA metropolitan commissioner Ratnakar Gaikwad and TERI director general Rajendra Pachauri. MMRDA and TERI have agreed …
The district administration on Thursday resolved to take up development work worth Rs 20.37 cr under Karnataka Municipalities Reformation Programme. The proposed project would be funded by World Bank and Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Development Corporation and is aimed to the integrated development of the City. The meeting held at the …
Expressing solidarity with Carmona villagers in their battle against the Raheja project, village groups from across Goa warned the political class not to push mega housing projects against the will of the people without taking the infrastructural requirements into considerations. Representatives of village groups and local villagers assembled near the …
This study, based on a large dataset of 894 projects from 17 infrastructure sectors, attempts to answer certain important questions on time and cost overruns in publicly-funded infrastructure projects: How common and how large are the overruns? What are the essential causes? Are contractual and institutional failures among the significant …
The latest Cooum river restoration project in Chennai aims to focus on slum eviction as an achievable first step. A 19-kilometre elevated expressway on the river is also planned. Together estimated to displace over 18,000 families from the banks of the Cooum, these two projects testify to how waterfront development, …
