What are your observations about Indian cities? I come from a school of thought that likes cities, and I find an Indian street fascinating. There are so many different users: bullock carts, food vendors, beggars, cyclists and cars. I can see how cars are a necessary part of city life …
It was quarter to nine on a cold December evening at the Kalighat tram depot in south Kolkata. A row of tramcars stood like ghosts under an iron shed. At the corner of one coach an elderly man clad in khakis read the newspaper in the dim light of a …
Frank Lloyd Wright, the American architect, once said that to look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of fibrous tumour. It is probably an apt description of how India
MUMBAI's Metro rail project has hit a roadblock. The regional planning authority, executing the project, is facing shortage of funds. In July, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) approached the World Bank and Japan Bank for International Cooperation for a Rs 20,000 crore loan. MMRDA plans to use the …
PUNE’S civic authorities are moving ahead with the metro rail project. City mayor Mohansingh Rajpal has announced December 12 as the date for laying the project’s foundation stone even as city planners questioned the need for the expensive transport system. A public hearing organised on June 18 to get people’s …
two incidents of fire in April ruined traders of the plastic scrap market in Mundka village in Delhi’s outskirts. While waste pickers search heaps of burnt plastic for metal scraps they can sell to buy a meal, the land owners in Mundka are hoping for better times. The plastic scrap …
This paper by SIM-air presents the past and the current air quality management in Delhi, India, including the discussions on the air pollution levels, sources of air pollution, and policy interventions of the past and on-going. It is based on a presentation delivered at the BioVision Conference in Lyon, France, …
Going by the slow pace of acquiring private land, the Namma Metro project may well join the long list of delayed projects of the City. It's been over three months since Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB) began taking private properties into its possession for the Metro Rail project in …
As it prepares to transport more than a hundred thousand people between the Capital and its posh but water-starved neighbour Gurgaon each day, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation is simultaneously doing its bit to tap every drop of rainwater. The DMRC has made extensive arrangements to catch rainwater on the …
Dug up roads, rows of barricades, traffic diversions and slow vehicular movement, if this explains the state of many roads in the city where metro railway is scheduled to pass though, the scene will be drastically different when the gleaming carriages roll out on its tracks. The Delhi Metro Rail …
The High Court admitted a PIL filed by CMH Shops and Establishments and Residents Association challenging the very commissioning of the Metro Rail project. The High Court on Thursday admitted a PIL filed by CMH Shops and Establishments and Residents' Association challenging the very commissioning of the Metro Rail project. …
Keeping up its reputation of beating deadlines, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has completed construction work on its brand new railway bridge across the Yamuna in a record time of 26 months. The work on the 698.8-metre bridge started in October 2005 as the first project under the ongoing second …
The Sheila Dikshit government on Monday received a pat on the back from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Speaking on occasion of the foundation stone laying ceremony of the 1,500-MW power plant in Bawana, the PM lauded the
With construction of Delhi Metro's second phase on full-stream, and the first section between Dilshad Garden and Shahdara up for completion by the year-end, the state budget has allocated a sum of Rs 819.93 crore for Metro rail in 2008-09. The money will be utilised for construction of eight new …
With a clear aim to give a fillip to the Capital's public transport system before the Commonwealth Games, the government has given the largest allocation of funds to the transport sector. A whopping Rs 2,933 crore (29%) has been set aside for new buses, more roads and bridges and expansion …
For thousands of people who commute between Delhi and Ghaziabad daily, the wait for an efficient and comfortable mode of transport will be over by September 2010. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) and the Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) signed an agreement on Monday for extension of the Delhi Metro …
Indicating its disgruntlement with the public-private partnership route for major infrastructure projects, the state government on Wednesday agreed to constitute the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation, to be modelled after the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation. Following a meeting with DMRC chief E Sreedharan on Wednesday, the government announced that the to-be-constituted …
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has presented a budget of Rs 6,643 crore for 2008-09 to implement a series of infrastructure projects. Some of the major projects that have been allocated funds include Rs 700 crore for the showcase Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP), Rs 1,250 crore for …
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation is likely to be assigned with preparing the Detailed Project Report for the Chandigarh Metro Rail project. The Centre had suggested the names of three companies for the job including RITES, Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC) and Urban Mass Transit Company. The corridors and other …
