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 …
A controversial road project has not only rung alarm bells for urial population in Chumbi-Surla Wildlife Sanctuary, the sole protected area in the Salt Range, but also brought different departments to lock horns with each other. The approval of a new 11.83km long road, from Khokar Zer village in Chakwal …
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday pledged loans and other economic aid worth $5.9 billion to Bangladesh over the next five years. Abe made the promise as he held talks with his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina who arrived in Tokyo on Sunday, the foreign ministry said. Japan will provide …
A seven-member team of the Implementation Support Review (ISR) Mission of World Bank on Tuesday said the implementation of National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project (NCRMP) in the State was satisfactory. The members, who made field visits to various cyclone shelter projects from May 12 to 15, hailed the NCRMP achievements …
Even before he enters parliament as MP of Varanasi and India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has already started development plans for his parliamentary constituency as well as the rest of the country. Sources in the government told TOI, Team Modi has reached out to the bureaucracy and sounded the bugle …
The government has so far released over Rs 310.545 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 …
An additional financial boost of USD 17.4M was received yesterday from the World Bank’s International Development Association credit. The money would be used to finance the second urban development project, in that to improve infrastructure services in northern Thimphu and support implementation of the urbanisation policies under the 11th Plan. …
BANGALORE: As many as 1,800 tress have been cut to widen National Highway (NH) 212 which connects the State with Kerala. According to sources, a total of 2,667 full-grown tress are proposed to be cut for the project. Public Works Minister H C Mahadevappa said the work is being executed …
After the 80 km safe corridor along the Kazhakkoottam-Taikod-Kottarakkara-Adoor route, the World Bank has now suggested dmevelopment of another 10 safe corridors across the state to demonstrate the effectiveness of the best practices in road safety. A challenge fund of around Rs 23 crore will be allotted for safety initiatives …
Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has approved the PC-1 of the two development projects worth Rs1.13 billion under the Cholistan Package. The PC-1 pertains to the desiltation of 1,100 water ponds (Rs465 million) and 31 schemes of the rehabilitation of 31 damaged roads (Rs66 million) in the desert. The Rs2.37 billion …
JAIPUR: Jaipur Development Authority's (JDA) recent survey reveals that around 1,200 residential colonies developed by the housing societies in the city cannot be regularized. With this, residents staying in these colonies will not be able to procure land deeds and avail proper basic facilities such as roads, electricity, sewerage etc. …
FORMER head of state and All Progressive National caucus member, General Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday commissioned 75-kilometer road constructed by the administration of Gov. Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar at the cost of N7.1 billion. Addressing hundred of people gathered to witness the event shortly after commissioning the project at Kaura Namoda council, …
The bridge will be a boon for those who commute between East and South Delhi as they will be able to bypass the congestion on Ring Road. The proposal to construct a bridge over the Yamuna, as part of Barapullah Phase-III, was cleared by the Yamuna Standing Committee (YSC) on …
Administrator Karachi Metropolitan Corporation Rauf Akhtar Farooqui on Wednesday said that KMC has decided to include more than 100 uplift schemes worth over Rs13billion in upcoming fiscal year 2014-15 including construction of seven flyovers and three major roads in different areas of the metropolis. While addressing a review meeting at …
As many as 3,500 trees would have been felled for various road widening works throughout the city, had it not been for the local environment activists who approached the National Green Tribunal (NGT), Western region, Pune and brought a stay on it. The NGT, on a hearing on May 7, …
Full-grown trees getting hacked on the Sion-Panvel highway, as part of road-widening project undertaken by the Public Works Department (PWD), has not gone down well with environmentalists and activists. PWD sources said, between the Vashi-Belapur stretches, around 1,365 trees are to be cut. Activists are asking why the department is …
Four leading environmental associations today charged that Industry and Commerce Minister Rishad Bathiudeen had illegally cleared 18,000 acres of forest land belonging to leading wildlife parks in three districts. The Center for Environmental justice, the Environment Conservation Trust, the Sri Lanka Environment Congress and the Buddhist Collective for Nature said …
The United States has pledged to provide $90 million for the construction of Kalat-Quetta-Chaman Highway (N-25), according to an agreement here signed on Monday. Federal Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal, National Highways Authority (NHA) Chairman Shahid Ashraf Tarrar and US Ambassador to Pakistan Richard Olson signed the agreement. …
Local people have protested the ongoing construction of a road near the no man’s land in the Indian side, saying that it is likely to inundate Hiraminiya, Bhawaniyapur and Piprahawa VDCs as it lacks proper drainage system. Rishiraj Gautam, secretary of Hiraniminiya VDC, said the villages may be at risk …
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has lost four-month time favorable for executing the projects aimed at rehabilitation of road infrastructure and water channels hit by last year’s flash floods in Chitral valley. A consultant engineer associated with one of the public works departments, requesting anonymity, told Dawn that with the start …
NASHIK: The National Green Tribunal (NGT), Western Region, Pune, on Wednesday, asked the municipal commissioner, the mayor and the executive engineer of the town planning department to be present for the next hearing on May 28 in connection with the issue of 3,500 trees likely to face the axe for …
