Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
“Need to replace buses that have outlived their service years” The Delhi Cabinet on Tuesday approved the purchase of 1,100 more buses for the Delhi Transport Corporation. This purchase is over and above the procurement of 625 non-air-conditioned low-floor CNG buses which had earlier been approved of. Chief Minister Sheila …
The Delhi Government will soon float global tender for procurement of 625 low-floor buses for Delhi Transport Corporation at a cost of Rs.330 crore. The proposal to procure the buses was cleared by Delhi Cabinet last month. “We will soon float the global tender. We are planning to get the …
Transport Minister Ramakant Goswami on Thursday hailed the Delhi High Court order that dismissed a plea for scrapping the 5.8 km Ambedkar Nagar-Moolchand Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor. Stating that the High Court order, which noted that the Delhi Government’s decision to pursue the project was not an “irrational decision”, …
The Delhi government gave some relief to the people living below poverty line from the Centre’s decision of curtailing number of subsidised LPG cylinder. The city government on Monday decided to provide nine subsidised LPG cylinders instead of six to the BPL people of the city. The decision was taken …
The Delhi Cabinet on Monday decided to provide to 3.56 lakh poor families covered under the recently-launched Kerosene-Free Dilli Scheme three more LPG cylinders per annum at subsidised rates to soften the blow of the Centre’s recent decision to limit the subsidy on domestic cooking gas to just six cylinders …
The Delhi High Court on Monday sought suggestions from the Delhi Government on diverting chartered buses as well as some Delhi Transport Corporation buses passing the BRT corridor with a view to seeing whether retaining the corridor and simultaneously decongesting the carriageway along it was possible. A Division Bench of …
Govt Study Finds Public Transport System Suffering With Few Buses And Delays New Delhi: The preliminary findings of a study commissioned by the urban development ministry at the Centre has found that the availability of public transport (buses and Metro) in Delhi per 1,000 people is a shocking 0.504. Worse, …
Referring to the Supreme Court opinion on the scope of judicial review in policy matters, the Delhi Government has urged the Delhi High Court to refrain from interfering with the BRT corridor issue. In an affidavit filed through R. P. Meena, Additional Commissioner of the Transport Department, urging the Court …
The Delhi government on Monday dismissed as “irrational and unconstitutional” the report prepared by the Central Road Research Institute (CRRI) criticising the 5.8 km BRT corridor between Ambed-kar Nagar and Moolchand. In its reply filed before the Delhi high court on Monday, the transport department said that the Bus Rapid …
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the Delhi Government to apprise it by July 23 of its views on the Central Road Research Institute’s recommendation to open up the BRT corridor to vehicles other than buses to ease traffic jam along the dedicated stretch. Taking a contrary view to …
Notwithstanding the Central Road Research Institute (CRRI) criticising the BRT corridor in south Delhi, the Delhi government on Tuesday resolved not to scrap it and hinted that it would undertake more such projects. Delhi chief secretary P.K. Tripathi said government was determined to go ahead with the project as the …
The Delhi high court on Thursday directed the city government’s transport department to retain, till its final order, the arrangement that allowed plying of all vehicles in the lane reserved for buses on the BRT corridor between Ambedkar Nagar and Moolchand Hospital in south Delhi. The division bench of Acting …
Cabinet approves the buses under Clusters 6, 7, 8 and 9 The Delhi Cabinet on Monday paved the way for increasing the number of buses plying under the cluster scheme in Delhi to 3,000 by permitting the implementation of four new clusters. Following the Cabinet meeting, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit …
As many as 708 challans were issued and eight vehicles impounded by the Transport Department of the Delhi Government on Monday, the first day of its week-long drive to check compliance with regard to pollution under control (PUC) certificates by all types of vehicles. Stating that the drive would continue …
A special eight-day drive will be launched by the Delhi Transport Department beginning this Monday to ensure adherence to pollution control norms by commercial and private vehicles. Transport Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely said on Thursday that 30 mobile teams of the enforcement wing would be deployed at all entry points …
The first allotment of the 500 houses for the Economically Weaker Section, constructed under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, will start soon and continue till all the nearly-15,000 houses had have allotted to jhuggi-jhopri cluster households. Apart from this, the Delhi Government said in the Budget, presented by …
From “development with a human face” in the 12th Five Year Plan, Delhi will be moving towards becoming a “good, productive and caring city” in the 12th Plan that begins in 2012, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said as she presented the Delhi Budget for 2012-13 in the Assembly on Monday. …
New Delhi: A year after Delhi government launched the bus cluster scheme, Delhi transport minister Arvinder Singh feels the dynamics of the city’s public transport system has undergone a change. “When the government had said in its affidavit that 11,000 buses are needed, the Delhi Metro still had a small …
New Delhi: In May 2011, the Delhi government launched the vaunted bus cluster scheme which promised to give the city a clean and modern alternative to the “killer” Bluelines. A year later, the scheme seems headed for a spectacular failure. Of the 6,600 buses promised by 2013, only 247 have …
If Maharashtra boasts the country’s largest public transport fleet, it has also earned the dubious distinction of being the top killer on roads last year, causing 3,407 mishaps. What’s worst, Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) also recorded the highest increase - of 203 - in road accidents during 2010-11, …
