Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton Canal nearly choked due to garbage dumping appearing in the DT Next dated 11.05.2025". The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton …
CRIP work, including development of bus bays, is likely to be delayed The felling of avenue trees near RR Lamp, Vellayambalam, and near treasury buildings at Statue to ensure free flow of traffic, visibility of traffic signals, and construction of bus bays on corridors developed under the City Road Improvement …
The controversial East-West Corridor may finally see the light of the day with the PWD suggesting its integration with three new BRT corridors. "Parts of these three BRT corridors fall in the same route as the proposed the East-West Corridor and it has been suggested that the project be integrated …
New Delhi: As the MCD prepares budget estimates for the year 2012-13, the cashstrapped agency is planning to double parking rates in the city. Subsequently, the monthly licence fee pro rata is also expected to go up. At present, the MCD parking fee is Rs 10 for the first 10 …
Also orders re-examination of issuance of provisional certificates to colonies which existed only on paper A day after Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit ordered a probe into the alleged scam in which government land was sought to be usurped in the guise of regularisation of unauthorised colonies, the issue was raised …
The works committee of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) today gave approval to various schemes of Rs 100 crore. The chairman of the committee, Jagdish Mamgain, said the scheme includes permission for construction of roads and drains in 24 unauthorised colonies listed in 1,639 unauthorised colonies. The colonies include …
PWD Likely To Get Govt Nod To Integrate Controversial Corridor With Three New BRTs New Delhi: The controversial East-West Corridor may finally see the light of the day with PWD suggesting its integration with three new BRT corridors. “Parts of these three BRT corridors fall in the same route as …
New Delhi: In another two weeks from now, going to Karol Bagh would require one to follow a new traffic plan. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), in its bid to reduce congestion in the busy market area, has decided to render three arterial roads one way. This, MCD hopes, …
26 skywalks worth Rs600 crore have eaten up the crucial roads near stations, making them narrower and creating gridlocks Here's a look at some of the skywalks built in Mumbai and whether they have benefited pedestrians Kanjurmarg Commuters at Kanjurmarg said the multi-crore skywalk built by the MMRDA is of …
Lucknow: The Allahabad high court’s reiteration that all projects in the National Capital Region must have the approval of the NCR Planning Board has thrown into uncertainty investments made by more than 22,000 people in the ambitious Yamuna Expressway township, located 40km from Delhi. Thousands of plots have been sold …
Transport experts and motorists have reacted strongly to the Sunder Committee recommendations making proof of parking mandatory before registration of vehicles. The Sunder Committee was formed to review the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988. While car owners opposed the proposed norm vigorously, Regional Transport Officials and transport analysts say it is …
MUMBAI: The state government is expected to change its norms on permissible sound levels on roads and flyovers before going in for sound barriers and might do it through a GR. This will enable it to go ahead with its Rs 55-crore plan to erect sound barriers on all the …
New Delhi: Months after the Delhi government announced the construction of 14 new BRT (bus rapid transit) corridors across the city, its ambitious project seemstobe miredin doubt. Sources say that the decision to start the next BRT corridor in KarawalNagar-Shastri Park is in limbo as the government has asked for …
MUMBAIKARS won’t see any more sea links, at least for now. After the successful run of the five-kilometre road over the sea, linking Bandra to Worli in South Mumbai, the Maharashtra government was planning its extension to Haji Ali via another sea link. But now that plan has been shelved. …
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has decided to construct noise barriers on all new flyovers throughout the city. However, experts have questioned the method in which the authority is planning to curb noise pollution. In its meeting on Thursday, the authority cleared the proposal for installing sound barriers. …
MUMBAI: The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) will allot Rs 1,113 crore for road-widening and flyovers. The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Thursday, which also saw MMRDA formally approve implementation of the Mumbai Trans-Harbour Link Project (MTHL) on a public-private partnership …
Being stuck in traffic is one of those unavoidable frustrations of urban living. Most cities, across the world, have to contend with intensified congestion, and are devising their own public policy solutions, but our cities are among the most spectacularly clogged. While this growth spurt in traffic may be inevitable, …
Delhi has witnessed an annual vehicular growth of 10 per cent and nearly 1,200 vehicles are registered daily, experts analysing the parking policy of the Capital said on Wednesday. The statistics were provided by experts to discuss parking reforms for a liveable city, at a conference organised by the Center …
Chalking out a long-term strategy to curb the menace of potholes, chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Tuesday announced that the government was contemplating engaging foreign technology and roping in experts to build roads in the state. Chavan said that changing the material, specification and the mechanism for laying roads was …
One of the key challenges in the development of infrastructure in India is the acquisition of land necessary for the projects. Land acquisition techniques adopted across a variety of other countries are reviewed in this paper. Although no single “best practice” exists, viewing land acquisition practices through a framework of …
New Delhi: TOI had on August 4, 2011, reported extensively on how CAG had pointed out irregularities in projects related to streetscaping, signage, streetlights, construction of roads and flyovers, purchase of telecommunication system for the police and utilization of bus fleet among others. In a shocking revelation, CAG said the …
