Rapid population growth and the expansion of metropolitan regions are defining features of India’s economic growth story. The number of Indian cities with populations above one million increased from 23 in 1991 to 53 in 2011. The average population density has also snowballed to 464 persons/sq km in 2020, 13 …
Devjyot Ghoshal & Sharmistha Mukherjee / Kolkata/new Delhi November 03, 2009, 0:19 IST Kolkata Metro still in red, but DMRC is making operating profits This can be an eye-opener: Around 100,000 passengers are reported to be using the Kolkata Metro daily without tickets, as the ticket-checking infrastructure is in a …
KOCHI: The declaration made by Union Minister for Urban Development Jaipal Reddy has given a new lease of life to the Kochi Metro Rail project. With the Minister saying that procedures for the final nod would start soon, all eyes are now on the Finance Commission. The project, to be …
Garden city could soon become concrete city. Bangalore has lost around 50,000 trees in recent years to infrastructure development and nearly 300 more will soon go for the Metro rail project. Environmentalists and citizens fear that rampant felling could cost the city its 'green heritage' tag. Their fear is supported …
KOCHI: As the Kochi Metro dream comes closer to reality, environmentalists in the city are in a celebratory mood as the multi-crore project will bring along with it a green cover management plan as part of the compensatory afforestation programme. But they are also concerned by the fact that the …
The proposed routes are from Rahon Road to Gill village and BBMB Power House to Ayali Chowk Station Jyotika Sood The two-member team of the Delhi Metro Rail Project (DMRC) that carried out a feasibility study of the metro rail project in the city stated today that it was possible …
Mumbai The proposed Metro station near Nanavati Hospital, part of a typically high-traffic-density route, has been chosen for a pilot study on the implications of granting additional built-up rights on land along the Metro routes. The existing FSI in suburbs is 1 in a 500-m radius of a station. The …
Mumbai: The Human Development Report (HDR), copyrighted by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, is a clear indication of the failures of the state government as well as the Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA). MMRDA is the planning authority for six municipal corporations and 13 councils across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region …
In view of burgeoning population and rising traffic congestion in the Pink City, the state government is gearing up to bring metro rail here and if all goes well the project will materialise in 2013. The state government has roped in Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) for the project. The …
Mumbai The Centre is ready to bear 50 per cent of the cost of the Colaba-Bandra Metro Corridor project under a joint venture model, according to Union Minister for Urban Development S Jaipal Reddy. He was speaking on Tuesday at the foundation-stone laying ceremony of the 32-km Charkop-Bandra-Mankhurd Corridor. President …
MUMBAI: Citizens' groups in the Juhu-Bandra area are getting ready for a long drawn battle with the MMRDA over the issue of an underground section of the second Metro line-Charkop-Bandra-Mankhurd. "We will first try for a dialogue with the MMRDA, only when it fails will we resort to other measures …
Unless an integrated and optimisation-centric strategy is pursued, Chennai may end up having a sub-optimal suburban rail network, disjoined bus system and a stand-alone big-ticket showpiece called Chennai Metro, warns M G Devasahayam There has been no public consultation or participation by the `people of Chennai' in the decision making …
Mumbai: Linking Road residents are not in a mood to soften their stand on the protection of 500 structures which will be affected due to the construction of an elevated Metro. The line will proceed from Juhu towards Santa Cruz Linking Road and end at Bandra junction near Amarsons. Residents …
MUMBAI: The Mumbai Metro scheme for the city got a boost with the MMRDA awarding the construction of the 32-km long Metro II corridor from Charkop to Mankhurd via Bandra to a consortium headed by Reliance Infrastructure Ltd. The decision was taken at an MMRDA executive committee meeting headed by …
