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 …
After a concerted push from the road transport ministry, the finance ministry has agreed to consider offering concessions to stuck highway projects under the public private partnership (PPP) mode. Government sources indicated that the approval came through at a meeting between finance minister P Chidambaram and road transport minister CP …
Kerala Cabinet granted Rs. 25 crore additionally to the State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) on Wednesday to tide over its financial problems. With this the total grants to the KSRTC during this financial year rose to Rs. 100 crore, in addition to the original Budget provisions. The Cabinet authorised Chief …
Capital Development Authority has given approval for starting Rapid Transit System in the federal capital. Sources in CDA said that the project would cost Rs 5 billion. The CDA officials have started accumulating funds from the relevant departments to realise the plan. The project will facilitate the locals making them …
Shanghai is to introduce 200 new-energy buses in a bid to cut emissions and reduce noise, Xinhua News Agency reported on Feb 20. A new-energy bus, using electricity rather than petrol, could run for nearly 10 hours, or 150 kilometers, even if it is fully loaded with the air-conditioner working, …
Kochi: The Greater Cochin Development Authority (GCDA) will focus on addressing transport issues in the upcoming budget. Briefing the media on pre-budget discussions in Kochi on Monday, GCDA chairman N Venugopal said that various transport projects, including the ring road and water transport projects, would be given importance in the …
A summary of the proceedings from the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Doha, Qatar, and their significance for the land transport sector. This report, prepared by the Bridging the Gap initiative, provides some background and gives a short overview of the key issues and a summary of the outcomes …
The Punjab Government on Thursday has approved the scheme of Transport Sector with an estimated cost of Rs. 3269.678 million for “Construction of Metro Bus Transit System for Lahore-Ferozepur Road Corridor, Erection of Escalators and Platform Screen Doors at MBS Stations Package-IX (Revised)”. Eight other development schemes of various sectors …
Investing in Resilience: Ensuring a Disaster-Resistant Future focuses on the steps required to ensure that investment in disaster resilience happens and that it occurs as an integral, systematic part of development. At-risk communities in Asia and the Pacific can apply a wide range of policy, capacity, and investment instruments and …
RITES had proposed the construction of dedicated bus lanes in the grid system in the tricity. It had also suggested that both the Metro under the Mass Rapid Transport System (MRTS) and Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) System be developed at the same time. Also, it recommended integration points with the …
At current annual average growth rates, the number of vehicles in Asia will double in less than seven years from 2010 and India along with Indonesia, Nepal, PR China & Sri Lanka show the fastest annual average growth rates. This report presents the first benchmark of air pollutant (PM) and …
New Delhi: Creation of IT jobs in Bangalore and Hyderabad seems to have a direct impact on the growth of private vehicles in these two cities. Bangalore, in the past two years, has emerged as next only to Delhi in terms of annual vehicle registration while Hyderabad recorded a big …
New Delhi: The recent covering of smog over Delhi has brought the two delayed peripheral expressways around the capital back on the table. Chairman of the Supreme Court-appointed Environment Protection and Control Authority (EPCA) Bhure Lal has sought highways minister C P Joshi’s intervention to expedite the twin projects. Lal …
NEW DELHI: The city's thirst for owning vehicles looks nowhere near quenched even though Delhi's roads are groaning rather loudly under their weight. Vehicles are in fact known to be the largest contributor to the capital's fast deteriorating air quality. Despite this, the city added over five lakh vehicles to …
The idea of the Punjab and Haryana High Court of having Metro-like smart cards for the expressway seems to have clicked as the authorities have started working out the details. Following a spot visit while the traffic police suggested measures like repairing slip roads, DGSCL representatives are busy working out …
The UK's goal of reducing transport CO2 emissions received a boost today as the Government made £16.5m worth of funding available for new research and development. Grants will be awarded to UK businesses through a new open competition for collaborative research and development funding, which will be managed by the …
This study by Sarath Guttikunda and Puja Jawahar focuses on the energy and emissions outlook for the transport sector in India which could effectively result in a co-benefits framework for better air quality management in the cities & national climate policy dialogue. This study focuses on the energy and emissions …
New Delhi: The problem of polluting commercial vehicles breaking down on Delhi roads will finally be addressed now. The transport department, which at present operates only one centre in Burari for pollution check of commercial vehicles, will soon get centre another at Najafgarh. The centre, which will be run by …
New Delhi: Come Monday, parking a vehicle on an arterial road will invite a fine of Rs 600 with additional towing charges. Observing that a large number of vehicles are parked on thoroughfares like Ring Road and Connaught Place roads, traffic cops have decided to slap multiple sections of the …
The Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor between Ambedkar Nagar and Moolchand got the Delhi High Court backing on Thursday, when a bench of Justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Manmohan Singh dismissed a petition asking for scraping of the new traffic system. The court said in a city, where population is increasing …
‘Delhiites Will Have To Use Buses’ The Delhi High Court dismissed a PIL against the controversial BRT corridor on Thursday saying there was no escaping the fact that Delhiites will have to “one day or the other use public transport”. A division bench comprising Justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Manmohan Singh …
