Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
Zarqa City faces a major problem in its urban planning and design. Four main obstacles surround the city. From the north the location of heavy industry such as the Jordanian Refinery, the thermal plant for producing electricity and the purification unit to treat the wastes of the capital Amman and …
Traffic conditions in most of the cities are very chaotic and crucial, this is particularly observed in million plus cities. As the urbanization process takes momentum, these problems crop up due to the lack of commensurate development of infrastructure, particularly roads, road transport and inadequate public transport system. Weak public …
Man guilty of pooh-poohing all air pollution charges finally admits something is wrong Wednesday was a watershed. For, the man guilty of slamming the brakes on every move to convert polluting vehicles in town showed the first signs of being converted himself (see graphic). It happened during a closed-door meeting …
The chaos on the roads points to the alarming fallout of the huge rise in vehicle population. Pedestrians, the bulk of the urban poor, are affected most of all. Traffic snarls. Bad roads, bad road users and bad planning. The writing on the wall is clear, but what should be …
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. …
The Bangalore Metropolitan Land Transport Authority (BMLTA), constituted by the State government under the framework of National Urban Transport Policy (NUTP), has accorded approval to the Comprehensive Traffic and Transportation Plan (CTTP) for the City. Gaurab Gupta, Commissioner for Urban Land Transport, said the CTTP envisages an investment of Rs …
25 With just a week left for the Bus Rapid Transit System to open for the public, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit went for an early morning spin on the corridor today. The CM said she found some "glitches' on the corridor and made a slew of recommendations to her officers, …
A few months away from elections and hurtling towards the Commonwealth games deadline of 2010, the Delhi government has in its 2008-09 Budget made an unprecedented 41% hike in the allocation for the transport sector
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 …
Planning Commission recommends Rs 10,000 crore The Planning Commission today recommended the annual plan size of the National Capital Territory of Delhi at Rs 10,000 crore, a whopping Rs. 1000 crore more than the existing plan, and asked the Sheila Dikshit government to give an increased impetus to the Yamuna …
The vehicle population of the city has risen from 13.53 lakh in 2006 to 14.76 lakh in 2007 and now stands at over 16 lakh. With used cars dealers ensuring that vehicle owners have a ready avenue to get rid of their old vehicles and go in for new models, …
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 …
Despite expectations, the only major sops in the state budget for Mumbaiites is an increased FSI in the suburbs and the announcement that all the corridors of the Mumbai Metro rail project would be up and running in eight years. Also, MHADA colonies will be granted an FSI of 2.5 …
Games preparations in full swing: L-G NEW DELHI: With the Delhi Assembly elections due later this year, the address of Lieutenant-Governor Tejendra Khanna on the first day of the Budget session on Monday highlighted the achievements of the Delhi Government, stating that the progress in the last one year on …
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 …
METRO MARCH: Metro construction work in full swing with the help of two Tunnel Boring Machines near INA Market on Tuesday. In a major push for expansion of the Delhi Metro network, the Japan Bank for International Cooperation has advanced a loan of 72,100 million yen to the Delhi Metro …
The UT Administration, in principle, has decided that the metro rail system in Chandigarh will be entirely underground. As regards the positioning of rail lines in Punjab and Haryana, the decision has been left to the states. Earlier, the administration had planned to run the metro underground only in the …
A Unified Metropolitan Transport Authority has recently been set up in the city. All modes of public transportation, including Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) buses, the Mass Rapid Transit System (MRTS) and the proposed Chennai Metro will soon be brought under the purview of this body. Sometime ago, the first joint …
