Delhi goes for reality check on C` wealth Village
The Supreme Court's notice on the Akshardham Temple on Monday has raised immediate concern about the fate of the proposed Commonwealth Games Village. And the Delhi government is taking no chances.
Needed urban facilities for rural areas: Kalam
President APJ Abdul Kalam on Tuesday emphasised that urban facilities in rural areas should be given top priority. "It will help boost our GDP growth rate,' he said. Inaugurating a three-day national seminar on alternative strategies for development here, the President said rural prosperity was possible through physical, electronic, knowledge …
High tech safety norms in revised building code
The revised National Building Code, which is to likely to be released later this year, will incorporate the latest technologies for saving lives and property.The code was last revised in 1983. Most of the technologies, which found a mention in the erstwhile code, have become obsolete. The new code is …
45 water schemes made functional
The Public Health Minister, Mr Avtar Henry, today said that 45 rural water supply schemes covering 96 villages in Ghanaur and Bhunerheri blocks of Patiala district had been made functional. Because of floods and power failure, these schemes were lying closed for the past few days.He said that in the …
Building a dream out of a dry lake
The drying up of the lake has turned out to be a fortune fall for the beedi workers of Mandya in Karnataka. when, the Mandya Beedi Workers Multipurpose Cooperative Housing Society set about giving each beedi worker's family a house, it seemed like a mirage. Chikkamandyakere, has sprouted the colony …
60% of world will live in cities by 2030
The world will soon become predominately urban, according to United Nations predictions. By 2030, 60 percent of the world's population will live in cities, according to a study of the state of the world's cities by the UN Human Settlements Programme (UN- Habitat) published. This trend is equivalent to the …
Former `Kamaiyas` grab land in Dang
Former bonded labourers(Nepal) have grabbed government-owned land at Tribhuvan Nagar municipality in Dang. Chairman of the Freed Kamaiya Society, Dang, Tek Bahadur Raut, said they had decided to grab the government land as the authorities did not heed to their demands for rehabilitation. Some 80 families of the former Kamaiyas …
Bhagidari scheme high on Uttarachal govt agenda
Impressed by the success of the Bhagidari scheme initiated by the Delhi government, the Uttaranchal government now wants to replicate the scheme in its state. A 35 member team from the state today met the Delhi government officials to know more about the people-government partnership project and how to make …
Building by-laws only next year
Urban planning in Delhi is not going as per plan. Not only is Masterplan 2021 behind schedule, but the framing of Delhi's building by-laws by the MCD
No plans to scrap new parking rates: NDMC
The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has said that the new parking rates slated to be implemented next month onwards are here to stay. NDMC, PRO, Madan Thapliyal, said,
Delhi on way to becoming a big urban slum, say town planners
For the residents of the capital the proliferating illegal and unauthorised construction is a menace impinging on their public space, but for the MCD they are "money spinners." If this alleged nexus of the MCD with the builder-politician-police chain facilitating these constructions is not halted in time, Delhi would soon …
`We will make Delhi a world class city`
Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit ended the Delhi Assembly's budget session 2004 with the hope of making Delhi a world-class city. "We have been given the people's mandate once again and we must carry it forward," she said. Emphasising on a realistic rather than a populist government, Dikshit said that …
Relook at statute to battle water wars
With water disputes inundating the new UPA government in its first two months in office, the Centre says this vital resource should not be held hostage to political aspirations or litigation. Union water resources minister P R Dasmunsi said that the government would take a "new look" at Constitutional provisions …
State park preserves geological and industrial history
Just outside the center of this once-booming mill town, a towering slab of white stands as a quiet memorial to a part of the area's industrial history. But the 80-foot (24-meter), crescent-shaped wall of a now-defunct marble quarry also shares space with one of North America's most unique geological structures. …
State govt builds castles in the air
The Maharashtra Government's move to set up a technical committee to clear proposals for buildings over 70 metres (20 storeys) may just have further legitimised the unabated construction of skyscrapers in highly congested localities where civic infrastructure is in bad shape. Sources say the move may help builders get on …
Assam worried over mega hydel projects in Arunachal
The Assam government has expressed concern at possible negative impact of mega-power river dam projects on rivers in neighbouring states, and has called for a proper assessment of the advantages and demerits for Assam, of such large projects.
Pitting forest people against the tourist sector
The Garos are the tribal group that inhabited India's northeast region. They were included for and ethnographical studies in the latter half of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuary. Toady the Garos who live in Bangaldesh are mainly Christian but there are still many among their …
Govt to formulate tourism act
For foreign tourists, especially women, harassment begins as and when they land at the airport. And never ends. Now, the Delhi government wants the city to get rid of this notorious reputation of being an unsafe city. It is formulating a Tourism Trade Act, which may include licensing for tour …
Orissa Govt to hike land cess
The Cash-strapped Orissa Government has decided to hike land cess and sell hassle-free land under Revenue Department's control to generate additional resources worth Rs 1,000 crore during the current financial year. The Government has been under tremendous pressure from World Bank and Department for International Development (DFID) to cut down …
