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 …
Planning Commission recommends Rs 10,000 crore The Planning Commission today recommended the annual plan size of the National Capital Territory of Delhi at Rs 10,000 crore, a whopping Rs. 1000 crore more than the existing plan, and asked the Sheila Dikshit government to give an increased impetus to the Yamuna …
The Municipal Corporation is planning to introduce a token system in parking lots soon. It is likely to be implemented by April. The parking lots to be covered under this scheme include the ones at Sukhna Lake, Fun Republic, and parking lots in Sector 34, Sector 9 and Sector 17. …
MIT Scientists Design Vehicle That Folds At The Press Of A Button Cambridge (Massachusetts):Wouldn't it be nice to drive a car into town without worrying about finding a parking space? Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have devised just such a vehicle, a futuristic "City Car' that could even …
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), it seems, is spending most of its time devising new plans every month to handle parking in the city instead of solving the problem. This time it has more to to add to the further chaos. After parking was decentralised zone-wise few months back …
Giving planning for the much-delayed Metro Rail in the city a further boost, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has jumped into the fray, deciding to integrate its plans for underground and multi-level parking lots with the Metro Rail project. These parking lots will now be a stone's throw away from …
Delhi's parking crisis plays itself out in residential and commercial areas Delhi has more than 4 million registered vehicles as of now. Nearly 360,000 vehicles were added in 2005-06, estimating from the data of that year's Economic Survey of Delhi. That worked out to an average of 994 new vehicles …
It was a dispute over parking that made the frontpages of every Delhi newspaper. The police, however, claim that the media blew a minor dispute between neighbours into a violent fight over parking space. Jatin Arora's family have lived at S-210 in Panchsheel Park, a posh south Delhi locality, for …
gas-guzzlers in London's Borough of Richmond, in southwest London, will now have to pay hefty parking charges. The Richmond council cleared a plan to introduce emission-based parking charges in the first week of February. The council becomes the first local authority to implement a controlled parking zones scheme. As per …
This report is in addition to EPCA report on parking: the imperative of restricting vehicle numbers in Delhi (July 2004). It takes into account the parking policy filed by the government of Delhi (affidavit on behalf of GNCT of Delhi). In addition, it reviews policies and measures for parking to …
The Supreme Court (SC) has asked the Delhi government to submit a time-bound plan to deal with Delhi's parking problem by mid-November 2004. It has directed the government to study two reports submitted to the SC by the Environment Protection Control Authority (EPCA). The reports highlight high pollution levels due …
In this report, EPCA would like to point out that in the overall context, Delhi government needs to design specific measures in addition to improving public transportation system as levers to restrain traffic and their usage with the help of a phase-in time bound plan. After having reviewed various strategies …
In an attempt to curb the rise in both, the number of vehicles and pollution, the capital's civic bodies are deliberating a hike in one-time parking fee, which is collected by the Delhi government at the time of registration of vehicles. http://www.ibnlive.com/videos/india/steep-hike-in-one-time-parking-fee-to-curb-pollution-in-delhi-1161609.html
Why is Delhi delaying the implementation of its parking policy? Is vote bank politics trumping over a much needed move to unclog the national capital?We discuss on urban Reality this week.
