MP plans state-level Golden Quadrilateral
The Madhya Pradesh Government is going to take up road construction on the pattern which would be akin to the Golden Quadrilateral being built up by the Centre in the country. Chief Minister Uma Bharati hinted about the project during a Press conference in Gwalior. The cost of the project …
12 micro hydel projects being taken up shortly: Niaz
Minister for Tourism, Housing and Urban Development Ghulam Hassan Mir has said that the coalition government has implemented the programme for balanced development of all the three regions of Jammu and Kashmir at the ground level unlike previous regime, which was raising slogans on papers and did not implement it …
Jaya sanctions Rs 300 cr for rural roads
Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has ordered for immediate repairing of 5,850 km roads under the control of village panchayats and panchayat unions at Rs 300 crore. An official press release said she had directed the district Collectors to take up the work on priority basis.
A major water project for Jaipur
The Pink City is likely to get drinking water from the Bisalpur dam on Banas river in Tonk district by 2007. The Rajasthan Chief Minister, Vasundhara Raje, has directed the Water Resources Department to complete the project within the next four years. The financial sanctions for the Bisalpur-Jaipur project will …
HC rejects plea to stay relocation of Yamuna slums
The Delhi High Court refused to grant a stay on the relocation of slum dwellers in Yamuna Pushta and stateds that the resettlement process would continue. The Centre has given an undertaking to the court that they would provide transportation to school going children till March 31, from the resettlement …
Uguem villagers threaten dharna over water shortage
Residents of Sanguem and Uguem of Goa threatened to stage a dharna in front of the local water supply department, if the department fails to regulate water supply to Sanguem and Uguem village within a week's time.
District plan approved
Urban Development and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Mohammad Azam Khan approved a district plan of Rs 29 crore for Lucknow for the financial year 2004-05 in Lucknow. The district plan which was sanctioned by the minister during a meeting of planning and monitoring committee is 11% higher than the funds approved …
Delhi School of Planning to make master plan for Kochi
Kochi Corporation has entrusted the Delhi-based School of Planning and Architecture with the task of preparing a master plan for the development of the Kochi city. There was a long pending demand from urban planners to prepare a master plan for Kochi as the city was facing the hazards of …
Pond ash for road project
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has decided to utlise about 67 lakh cu.m. pond ash from the National Thermal Power Corporation's Unchahar power station in the construction of the upcoming Allahabad by-pass road.
Karnataka to emulate Kerala tourism model
Spirituality, religion, and healthcare are the three fields that attract a large number of overseas tourists. Realising this, the State Government appears to have come up with plans that will create the "feel-good factor" in the tourism industry by sprucing up facilities in polpular pilgrimage centres and historic towns and …
Antony urged not to support Coca-Cola
An international public health team that visited Plachimada in Palakkad district has appealed to the Chief Minister, A.K. Antony, not to extend support to Coca-Cola. The four-member American People's Health Movement (PHM) team has found that Coca-Cola is responsible for dumping high levels of lead and cadmium into the local …
Medha Patkar ends fast
Medha Patkar of the Narmada Bachao Andolan ended her six-day fast today after the Maharashtra Government decided that it would not give its consent to raising the height of the Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada to 110.64 metres until all families in Maharashtra affected by this were resettled.
Shinde approves Chandivli project
Maharashtra Chief Minister Sushilkumar Shinde put his stamp of approval on the controversial Chandivli rehabilitation project, where 20,000 tenements for slum-dwellers evicted from the Borivli National Park are being constructed.
Govt. plans to take Bhagidari to a new plateau
Encouraged by the positive public response to its "Bhagidari" initiative, the Delhi Government is bracing up to unleash massive reforms int he citizen-governemnt partnership venture by giving it a legitimate status. The authorities have already set in motion the process of drafting a formal legislation on the issue to put …
National Tourism Award
The Tourism and Cultural Ministry, has given National Tourism Award for the year 2003 to Indira Gandhi International Airport.
Five-point plan to make Delhi `world class`
A five-point presentation to make Delhi a world class city was made before the Delhi Cabinet headed by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit by All India Congress Committee (AICC) secretary and economist Jairam Ramesh. It was also decided that the Delhi Government would bring out a white paper on Delhi Statehood …
Dwellers dilute MCD`s plan to green Yamuna Pushta
The plan to beautify the Yamuna Pushta slum area and convert it into a into green belt, however, drew a cold response when only about 30 slum dwellers came forward for 'voluntary relocation'. Confusion prevailed among the slum dwellers and they were reluctant to give the Letters of Consent to …
HC bans land allotment to pvt bodies
The Nagpur Bench of the Mumbai High Court has imposed a blanket ban on allotment of land, rendered surplus under the Urban Land Ceiling Act (ULCA), to any individual, institution, trust or authority.
