Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
Developers cannot sell open spaces and stilt areas in their buildings as these are meant for common use and form part of the flats, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday. The ruling could bring relief to lakhs of flat-owners in different housing societies in Mumbai engaged in a tug of …
Cities all over the world are checking car population to free their road space. Anumita Roychowdhury finds out where India is headed LONDONIt's just too expensive to driveAndrew Parker, a business consultant in London, had enough of crawling down the choked roads in his car. When it seemed that things …
Indian cities need to put the brakes. But how? "Think of what London and Singapore did before graduating to sophisticated restraints," said Paul Barter of Singapore National University. Singapore slapped high taxes on new cars and annual taxes on cars in use. It could be 160 per cent of the …
Cities all over the world are trying to ease congestion on roads , check car population to free their road space and this latest special report in Down To Earth finds out where India is headed and what lessons can the country learn from them. To know more click on …
Cities all over the world are trying to ease congestion on roads. Not the chocked Indian cities, through. Time to make cars in India pay the real cost of using roads.
Although the first multi-level parking lot proposed by the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation in Sector 17 over three years ago is yet to see the light of day, the civic body has embarked on a project to study the feasibility of constructing another multi-level parking lot in the sector.The structure, proposed …
Civic body to go all alone for Rs 22-cr projectPaul John | TNNAhmedabad: After almost a year of consistent trial of inviting bids for the four mechanised multi-level parking facilities in the city and no one turning up for the same, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), has finally decided to go …
Have we ever considered how much our car costs the city? Just think of the roads that need to be expanded, to fill the ever-exploding numbers of vehicles in our city. Delhi has put as much as 23% of its land under roads and wants to build more to keep …
Gangtok, July 28: Want to buy a car? Get a garage first. This is what the Sikkim transport department has told residents of the state where, as almost everywhere in India, cars parked along roads choke traffic. The department issued a notification this month making it mandatory for buyers to …
Deeply concerned over the problem of increasing traffic congestion in the city, Justice Hemant Gupta of the Punjab and Haryana High Court asked the UT Administration to explain whether
Mumbai: Ever since the government permitted FSI incentives in lieu of setting up public parking facilities, proposals for parking lots on private land are increasing by the day. Thirty-one proposals have so far been cleared by the state-appointed committee in 18 months. A senior official from BMC
Hyderabad, June 30: The Supreme Court-appointed Environment Pollution (Prevention and Cure) Authority has threatened to recommend criminal action against commercial establishments that flout parking norms. It has also asked the government to gradually switch over to CNG for public transportation in the state capital. The EPCA chairman, Dr Bhure Lal, …
Hoping to ease the crunch for parking space in the Capital and end the menace of private parking attendants, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi has devised a new parking policy, which could usher in a four-fold hike in parking charges. The 140-page draft plan takes into account the city
New Delhi Vehicle owners in the Capital might soon have to shell out more depending on where they park their vehicles. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has finalised a revised parking policy that proposes to link parking rates to house or property tax of the area. The New Delhi …
New Delhi: With the finalization of the revised parking policy draft by MCD, officials claimed that it policy will discouraging people from purchasing private vehicles. Some of the proposals in the draft policy include charging people for parking their vehicles on colony roads and collecting road and parking taxes every …
Following the new guidelines, the Municipal Corporation would be auctioning parking lots in the city. The new guidelines entails contractors to make parking lots automated and semi automated. As per the decision taken by the Finance and Contract Committee in a meeting held recently, the Municipal Corporation will instal fully …
