Judgment of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Balwinder Kaur Vs State of Punjab & Others dated 19/03/2024. Balwinder Kaur, the applicant raised the grievance of risk of thousands of trees felling due to likelihood of land sliding. It was said that illegal mining is being carried out …
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has allocated Rs 1.150 billion for 47 projects of environment sector in budget 2014-15. Initiating an ambitious programme of billion tree tsunami, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to set-up nurseries on 80 acres of land, tree plantation on 15,700 acres of land, seed sowing on 2400 …
Uttar Pradesh government launched a road safety policy, claiming to be the first such initiative in the country, which seeks to check occurrence of street accidents and resulting mortalities. Uttar Pradesh is the first state in the country which has launched its road safety policy that deals with ways and …
It will give Defence free hand to implement projects within 100-km of the LAC The government signalled on Thursday that it will not allow environmental considerations to veto the development of its defence infrastructure along the Sino-Indian border. Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar revealed that a policy was in the works …
LDA Gets The Power To Sanction Building Maps In 197 Villages Falling Under Zila Panchayat LDA announced to include the city's extended areas under the master plan 2031. This would empower LDA to approve maps in these areas. Currently, it is done by zila panchayats. There has always been a …
Development comes at a cost. This appears to be true in case national highway 2 that is being widened. More than 600 trees on the divider from Sarai Khwaja to the YMCA face the axe as the plan is to reduce its width. “Nearly 625 trees on the divider will …
RAIPUR: Six people have died in last three days owing to heat even as temperature continued to remain high at 44.1 degrees celsius on Monday. Terrible change in climatic conditions has triggered anxiety that Raipur and Bhilai were never so hot 8-10 years ago and perhaps a Chipko Movement is …
The government has started work on amending the Land Acquisition Act to accommodate a provision of compensation based on market rate. Currently, the government is being forced to pay much higher than the market rate for land acquired for several infrastructure projects. Many transmission line, irrigation and road projects have …
Rural Road Development Project in the Eastern Province. Not only were we able to rehabilitate 61km more than originally planned within the same fund allocation, but also completed all the works one year ahead of loan expiry" Sarath Abeygunawardane, Chief Secretary of Eastern Provincial Council said in his opening remarks …
The widespread loss of greenery to the ongoing road expansion drive in Kathmandu Valley is set to be reverted beginning with a section on the 2.2km road spanning Maitighar and Tinkune. Trees, shrubs and herbaceous species will provide much-valued greenery to 350 metres of the road in the first phase …
Metal sign boards, unscientifically placed or in an awkward manner, are posing a threat to pedestrians in Sasthamangalam. The boards, maostly made of metal, are erected along the Sasthamangalam-Peroorkada Road and Sasthamangalam - Edapazhanji Road. Boards of private institutions as well as government organisations along with the sign boards are …
Rukum, June 5: Only nine kilometers road has been constructed in 14 years after the start of the construction works. Merely nine kilometers of Sheetalpokhari-Jhulkhet-Chunbang agriculture road has been completed within 14 years. The construction works of the road section was started in 2059 BS at a cost of Rs …
NAGPUR: A host of public interest litigations (PILs) on traffic safety are pending in Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court but with a few exceptions, those have failed to move the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) and traffic police officials. In many PILs were disposed of on assurance of officials, but …
Gopinath Munde's tragic and untimely death is one more desperate wake-up call for road safety in India. For me, the news was particularly distressing as seven months ago, it was on the same road-Aurobindo Marg-that my cycle was hit by a reversing car. I was lucky that Good Samaritans picked …
Need to actualise goals of UN Decade of Action for Road Safety The numbers say it all. Every four minutes a life is lost in a road accident in India with 1,40,000 deaths recorded in 2012 alone. In the past decade, over a million people have lost their lives in …
The corporation has narrowed down on a consortium of Indo-French consultancy firm STUP Consultants Pvt Ltd and multinational consultants Ernst & Young. In a major fillip to the ambitious coastal road project which envisages building a road along Mumbai’s Western sea front, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said that his ministry …
The government has so far released over Rs 319.566 billion under Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) for various projects against total allocations of Rs 540 billion for the fiscal year 2013-14. According to the latest data of Ministry of Planning, Development and Reforms, Rs 48,269.400 million has been released for …
Locals of Lagam-5 in Surkhet district are constructing road at their own initiatives. They are active in constructing road from Lagam-Dharas road section. The Users' Committee decided that local teachers and officials have to provide salary of a month for the same. Chairman of the Users' Committee, Bhim Bahadur Tiruwa, …
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Development Working Party (PDWP) on Thursday approved 22 development projects valuing around Rs13 billion for the next fiscal. The approval came during a meeting, which took place here under the chairmanship of provincial additional chief secretary Khalid Pervez. The meeting was attended by the administrative secretaries …
Development: National Assembly members yesterday decided to include the 55km Shingkhar-Gorgan road construction in the 11th Plan. Works and human settlement minister Dorji Choden said representatives from Bumthang and Lhuentse proposed for the road construction to the National Assembly is 2005. “The road was included in the 2007-2027 road master …
Owing to delay in compensation distribution to landowners, locals have obstructed road construction on the mid-hill Bhimeshwor-Ghurmi highway in Sindhuli. According to Sharad Acharya, a local, construction of the road that links Bhimeshwor-Ghurmi highway was obstructed as the authority failed to distribute compensation to victims. Blacktopping along with other road …
