SC takes serious note of CNG leakage in buses
The Supreme Court today took serious view of the media reports about leakage being found in some CNG buses in the national Capital and sought a report from the Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA)."It is a serious matter. Some body has to go into it, if the media …
Regularisation again on anvil
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and Urban Development Minister Dr A K Walia will soon meet Union Urban Development Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad in connection with the regularisation of 1,432 unauthorised colonies. These colonies have cropped up everywhere, whether it's public land or private. A highly-placed source said that Union Urban …
Ganga to quench Agra
Residents of Agra will soon have respite from water crisis. The city, with a population of 20 million would soon be served with Gangajal, supplied from Tihri through a pipeline. In a meeting held in Delhi, Cabinet Secretary V K Chaturvedi approved the laying out of the pipeline between Palra …
EGS funds for watershed development programme
Maharashtra's Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS) has Rs 5,516 crores unspent from its corpus and another Rs 3,144 crores owed to it by the state government . Now, plans are being drawn up to use it gradually to "drought proof" th state by taking up long term watershed development programmes. Digging …
MCH drafts Rs 500-crore plan for slum-free city
In India, it is hard to visualise a city without slums, more so Hyderabad. But the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad (MCH) has taken up the onerous task to free the city of slums. The corporation has begun the exercise in right earnest by according top priority to slum development. For …
East Godavari allocated Rs 60 crore under SSA
An amount of Rs 60 crore has been allocated for Sarva Siksha Abhiyan in the district for 2005-06. The amount would be used to provide infrastructural facilities in the schools, according to Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (SSA) deputy executive engineer A Satyanarayana.He told reporters at Ambajipet that the SSA funds would …
Travel travails
Though Budget 2005-06 has increased allocation for tourism, its impact will be subject to the effective utilisation of the outlays, and also on greater incentives for attracting the requisite investment. The total outlay stands raised to Rs 786 crore, from the Rs 500 crore in 2004-05. The allocation for tourism …
Capital to benefit from Rs 127,000 -cr plan
Besides the Capital, about a dozen cities around Delhi are likely to benefit from the five year old Rs 127,000 crore scheme to improve infrastructure in 60 cities in the country. But to get the funds manjor reforms at the state and urban local bodies, levels are necessary something many …
Town and Country
The city and the village have always existed as adversaries in our collective imagination. For state planners and sociologists, this mutually exclusive relationship is articulated as India versus Bharat. Power-brokers and nostalgia merchants have also fed on this logic of opposites. Colonial rule and the entry of western ideas of …
M.P. to develop modern cities, `gokul grams`
The Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Babulal Gaur, is determined to put the State on the fast track of development, but in pursuing this goal he is not prepared to compromise when it comes to safeguarding the interests and welfare of the deprived sections. he said that while concentrating on efforts …
Grand projects dont make a great city
Not Shanghai but Mumbai. The government's vision to make the Mumbai city into another gleaming, skyscrapered Asian tiger took a knocking at the Asiatic Society's seminar on
Grand projects dont make a great city
Not Shanghai but Mumbai. The government's vision to make the Mumbai city into another gleaming, skyscrapered Asian tiger took a knocking at the Asiatic Society's seminar on
Sabarmati project focus of mega plans
The mega city status sure has lent wings to Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC)'s mega dream s for Ahmedabad city, the loftiest among them being the Sabarmati Riverfront Development Project (SRDP). Already upbeat about Centre's decision to allow 100% FDI in real estate and construction, AMC is now angling for funds …
If only promises could curb pollution
The Gujarat government seems to be in no hurry to rid Ahmedabad of its embarrassing distinction of being among the heavily polluted cities in the country. Only that can explain the lack of seriousness in meeting the deadline of March 31 to implement pollution control measures prescribed by the supreme …
SSP water users body to manage irrigation
More than 5,200 beneficiaries falling under the command area of Sardar Sarovar Project were handed over management of the irrigation system and water distribution at Dabhoi taluka in Vadodara district of Gujarat. At a farmers rally at Dabhoi in Vadodara district, the first lot of developed command area villages were …
Guidelines for low-rise buildings
The Delhi fire services (DFS) has prepared a set of guidelines to lower the risk of fire in low-rise buildings, especially in market places across the capital. The guidelines have been submitted to the Delhi government and will be made "mandatory" soon.Taking into account fires in Delhi and in the …
Govt to formulate new policy on slum relocation
Delhi government will soon be formulating a policy on slum relocation. Urban development minister A K Walia directed the Delhi State Industrial Development Corporation (DSIDC), urban development department and the Registrar of Cooperative societies to submit an action plan within a week. "We have been toying with the idea of …
FM gives green signal to Blore Metro project
The ambitious Metro rail project in Bangalore may finally take off, with the the finance minister announcing a monetary package for the same in his Budget. K.N. Shrivastava, MD, Bangalore Mass Rapid Transit Ltd (BMRTL), said initially the government was suppose to fund about Rs 100 crore for the year …
Rs 316 crore to beautify Hussainsagar
Here is some good news for the residents of twin cities. Hyderbad will have a new look Hussainsagar.The State Government has decided to invest up to Rs 316 crore on its development. Japanese International Cooperation Agency has come forward to fund the lake project.Municipal Administration Minister K Ranga Rao stated …
