CM wants SPV on lines of Metro
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has asked transport department to float Special Purposes Vehicle (SPV) on the lines of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) to the execution of two mega projects - High Capacity Bus System and Electric Trolley Bus System. The Delhi Government also directed transport department to explore the …
`New Delhi needs more space in MPD 2021`
The NDMC is looking for a strong footing for redeveloping New Delhi in the Master Plan for Delhi 2021. New Delhi, which has been characterised as 'developed' in one Master Plan after another, has suffered because the need to "rebuild" has never been considered necessary. In a meeting with DDA …
Master Plan envisages smaller housing units
With Delhi's population expected to grow by around 5-lakh every year and touch the 230-lakh mark by 2021, the draft for Master Plan 2021 states that the key area of concern will be the housing requirement of the teeming millions. As about 16-lakh dwelling units will need to be constructed …
Farm tourism to entice tourists from around the world
If you thought that Kerala Tourism had exhausted all its options after the intense promotion of backwaters, lakes, lagoons, beaches, hill stations, temples, churches, mosques, art, culture, architecture, ecology, ayurveda, homoeopathy, allopathy and their innumerable value additions, you are badly mistaken. The fact is the tourist potential of more than …
DDAs first draft to allow Capital to think tall
The DDA has proposed to repeal the height restrictions on buildings in the Capital in its first draft of the Masterplan 2021. Mooted by the former Lt Governor, Vijai Kapoor, the draft says that the present policy regarding tall buildings is based on
Capital the most unsafe city in the country: Experts
Safety experts have declared the national Capital to be the most ‘unsafe’ city in the country. Speaking at a seminar, ‘How Safe is Delhi’, disaster management experts from across the country expressed concern at the growing unauthorised structures and vertical encroachments in New Delhi today. Three or four storey vertical …
CP-Dwarka trial run begins today
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation will turn over a new leaf on Friday as it begins trial runs on its longest corridor -- the 29.3 km Line III -- which when opened in December will reduce the travel time between Barakhamba Road in Connaught Place and Dwarka Sub-city to a …
Monorail : Delhi to consider Tokyo model
Japan has become the front runner in the monorail race. Delhi government is seriously considering the hi-tech profit-making Tokyo model over others. Hitachi, a major stakeholder in Japan's monorail projects has shown interest in Delhi's monorail venture. According to sources, the company had presented its model before the government earlier …
Ban on digging up roads during day
A high-level meeting of the District Coordination Committee held at the Collectroate imposed a complete ban on digging up roads during the day by the BSNL, KWA and KSEB or any other private companies. The committee issued various guidelines to be followed by the agencies concerned before undertaking road-digging activities. …
MP cities out of Central scheme?
The four cities of Madhya Pradesh viz. Indore, Bhopal, Ujjain and Jabalpur, included in the Central govenment's National Urban Renewal Fund scheme, might lose their claim in the scheme. The Centre has issued the fund of around Rs 5000 crore as a monetary support for the infrastructure development of these …
Relook Metro line over Qutub: INTACH to PM
The Indian National Trust for Art & Cultural Heritage (INTACH), Delhi chapter and senior architects and planners have written to the Prime Minister asking him to re-examine the proposal to run an elevated Metro from IIT to Qutub Minar. INTACH has been protesting against the elevated Metro going beyond IIT, …
HC asks MCD to take time-bound action
The Delhi High Court has directed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to take action against such residential properties which are being put to commercial use, flouting sanctioned building bylaws. Passing the order in a petition filed by a resident of South Delhi's Greater Kailash colony, the Division Bench of …
PMGSY goes off road in 15 states
The Centre's biggest rural roads project, the Rs 3,809 crore Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), appears to have hit a mega speedbreakers to have hit a mega speedbreaker in 15 states countrywide including biggies such as Maharashtra, Karnataka, Punjab and Kerala. That rural roads in these states were terminally …
Tea tourism plan brews
The Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government is adding a dash of dough and stirring the cup of tea tourism to let its flavour draw all those bitten by the travel bug. It has shortlisted seven tea gardens to implement a Rs 18-crore tourism development package it has drawn up.
Rural-urban divide is a mindset, not geographical
The rural-urban divide is more of the mindset rather than an actual geographical divide feels corporate India. At the concluding session of the National session of the National Conference on Rural Markets organized by the confederation of Indian Industry, Jalaj Dani, President International Asian Paints said, "The growing middle class …
World Tourism Day celebrated
Mr Jagmohan Singh Kang, Minister for Tourism and Animal Husbandry, today inaugurated a function to mark World Tourism Day. It was celebrated by the District Administration in collaboration with the Tourism Department, Punjab, at Aam Khas Bagh, Sirhind. Mr Ashok Sharma, Chairman, Punjab Tourism, presided over the function. Mr Kang …
PM panel OKs multi-cr package for highways
The Committee on Infrastructure headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh gave an in-principle approval to a Rs 22,750 crore package for converting 6,500 km of four-laning of highways into six-laning. Most of this six-laning (around 98 per cent) would be done on the 5,846 km of the Golden Quadrilateral. The …
Govt firm to promote rural tourism
Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Buddhi Raj Bajracharya has said that His Majesty's Government is committed towards promoting rural tourism through collaboration with the rural community and private sector. Launching the promotional materials and publications on Tourism for Rural Poverty Alleviation Programme on the occasion of the 26th …
250 million dollar ADB loan for rehabilitation of infrastructure in J&K
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a loan of 250 million dollars for infrastructure rehabilitation in Jammu and Kashmir. The project is the first major intervention in the troubled state by a multilateral aid agency in recent times. According to an ADB press release received here, the project will …
