Not a drop to drink
Call it an irony of fate but it is a paradoxical fact that the Himalayan region is today facing an acute drinking water scarcity that is aggravating day by day thanks to drying up of rivulets and springs. Despite having as many as 13 major rivers including the Ganga and …
Basic facilities after 55 years
Dolni, a tribal village in Madhya Pradesh was without the basic facilities like road, water and electricity during the last 55 years of independence. But MLA Harishankar Jaiswal had decided three years ago to develop the village. After continued and hard work of three years, he was able to provide …
National policy for street vendors soon
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's intent to project the human face of economic reforms may soon find place in a national policy for street vendors. As per instructions from the Prime Minister's Office, a working group (comprising emminent social workers like Ela Bhat from the Self Employment Women's Association) has …
CM meets L-G for policy on relocation of slums
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit met the Lieutenant Governor Vijay Kapoor and told him that the formulation of a policy was needed for the demolition and relocation of slums from the Capital. The meeting was also attended by the representatives of DDA, MCD, Urban Development ministry and the chief secretary. …
SC upholds Blore Amendment Act
In a major relief to builders, the Supreme Court has upheld the constitutional validity of a Banglore city building bye-law validating retrospectively all buildings of 165 feet high though the law prior to 1996 allowed buildings of maximum height of 55 feet.
Environment Ministry notification `arbitrary`
The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, has written to the President, the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister, seeking their intervention to cancel the Union Environment Ministry's recent "arbitrary" notification depriving the States of their powers to permit constructions in the urban coastline.
Help keep Upper Lake clean, citizens urged
Representatives of agencies working on the Bhoj Wetland Project have made an impassioned plea to the citizens to help in conserving and cleaning the Upper Lake, the major water reservoir of the Bhopal city, Madhya Pradesh so that it could provide safe water in the coming years.
T.N. MP flays coastal regulation
C. Sreenivasan, MP from Dindigul in Tamil Nadu has criticised the Ministry of Environment and Forests for issuing a 'unilateral' order banning the demolition and reconstruction of heritage buildings for preservation of coastal areas.
A move to save heritage buildings
The notification on Coastal Regulation Zone, issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, that has become a bone of contention between the Centre and the Tamil Nadu Government, bans the demolition or reconstruction of buildings of archaeological or historical importance, heritage buildings and buildings under public use.
MP road body gets Hudco prize for best performance
The Housing and Urban Development Corporation has given the Outstanding Performance Award to the Madhya Pradesh Rural Road Development Authority for outstanding work in construction of roads in rural areas, disproving claims by the BJP that the state government had failed to properly utilise funds for the purpose. The MPRRDA …
Delhi Plan size set at Rs 5,025 cr
While the Plan size for Delhi has increased from Rs 4,700 crore in 2002-03 to Rs 5,025 crore in 2003-04, the state will reduce spending on energy in absolute terms. Privatisation of power has led to decrease in the outlay for the energy sector from Rs 1,612 crore in 2002-03 …
ADB-aided urban development project cleared
The Cabinet approved the aide memoire for the Asian Development Bank-aided Rs 1,250-crore Sustainable Urban Development Project in five corporations in Kerala State. This will be the third package, after Modernising Government Programme and Power Sector funding, from the ADB for the State. The aide memoire includes conditions such as …
Best cities : 2003
India's first-ever rankings of best cities to live in conducted for Outlook Money by the New Delhi based Indicus Analyticus, this intensive survey is backed by a rigorous methodology that takes into account a wide-span set of parameters: from temperature extremes, rainfall variations and pollution to number of doctors, number …
Maharashtra to develop Konkan beaches
The Maharashtra Government has identified some beaches in the Konkan region, which would be developed with the help of private investors, the Guardian Minister for Sindhudurg District, Mr Ajit Ghorpade, said in Mumbai.
Moulding a dream
Vidyanagar Township near Toranagallu in Bellary District of Karnataka has been given the Prime Minister's Award for Excellence in Urban Planning and Design. A dream project of Mr. Sajjan Jindal, Managing Director of JVSL and his wife, Sangita, the township stood first among 19 entries, and has changed the very …
Barraged with protests
The Hipparagi Barrage project across River Krishna, in Karnataka, which is nearing completion after being in cold storage for over three decades, is once again in the eye of a storm. People in the 25 villages of Athani taluk bordering Maharashtra are bracing themselves for a long drawn agitation against …
Jaipur to have Ring Road
The pink city have a Ring Road to ease highway traffic and reduce air pollution, the Rajasthan Public Works Department Minister, Mr Harendra Nirdha, said. A sum of Rs 985 crore would be spent on the project which is likely to be completed within two years connecting the National Highway …
