Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Jagan Prasad Tehriya Vs State of Uttar Pradesh dated 23/05/2025. The applicant has alleged large-scale illegal felling of green trees within the Agra district, Uttar Pradesh. The application revealed instances of illegal tree felling at Fatehabad, Sadar, Kiraoli and Agra …
Mumbai: To research on and influence the processes of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), the School of Habitat Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) has now set up an Urban India Reform Facility, or UIRF. Otherfocus areas will include schemes like Integrated Housing and …
Delhi irrigation and flood control department stirred into action after matter reached high court. It drew up a plan which has been reviewed by the state govt Ambika Pandit | TNN Athriving water body with walkways and landscaped greens spread over 12-odd acres. The marshland wasting away along the busy …
Emerging opportunities to capitalize on co-benefits of urban pollution and global climate policy: a paper presented by Dr. Sarath Guttikunda, Delhi at National climate research conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010.
Canadian city of Vancouver has been named as the world's most livable city, while Delhi and Mumbai are being placed at 113th and 117th position, respectively, in an annual survey of livability that assesses living conditions in 140 global cities. The survey, conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), listed …
The National Urban Health Mission was supposed to address the unmet health needs of urban Indians. Yet, it has failed to commence work even 18 months after the announcement of its formation. A rapidly urbanising India has been marked by a series of epidemics of communicable diseases in the last …
Urban poverty, when directly measured by counting the persons unable to access the official nutrition norm of 2,100 calories through their total monthly spending on all goods and services, declined between 1983 and 1993-94, but rose substantially between 1993-94 and 2004-05 while poverty depth has increased. This is particularly evident …
Mumbai: It could be termed as a payback gesture by the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) towards the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B). The authority will construct a motorable bridge connecting the southern and northern sides of the IIT-B campus. The bridge, which will be 35 meter long …
Pune MHADA-CITY KHORWADI: Low-cost housing project on 100 acres A 100-acre plot in Khorwadi village in Daund Taluka, meant for a mega, low-cost housing project, has been recently handed over to the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA). The project will come up on a grazing area but the …
The Government's failure to take a decision on regularisation of over 1,600 unauthorised colonies has coloured the city graph as far as emission of greenhouse gases is concerned. Average carbon dioxide emission from the domestic sector in Delhi was 4.56 Million Metric Tonnes (MMT) in the year 2000-2008 while it …
Pune United Nations Secretary General for Disaster Risk Reduction Margareta Wahlstrom, who was in the city on Friday to deliberate on issues related to disaster risks, said cities would continue to be more vulnerable for the disasters originating from climate change, and therefore, educating the young minds through primary education …
The poverty ratio or the number of poor as a percentage of total population in India for 2004-05 is estimated at 37.2 per cent, according to this report submitted by the Suresh Tendulkar committee recently. The committee has defined the poor based on a normative living standard — it has …
NEW DELHI: All roads in the Capital will now be built using international technology before the upcoming Commonwealth Games. Special attention would be paid to roads which are around venues where the Games would be held. This was announced here on Wednesday by Delhi Public Works Department Minister Rajkumar Chauhan …
M G Devasahayam The decentralised plan should address the needs and aspirations of the citizens, factoring in the effects of climate change, resource depletion, food insecurity, population growth, poverty and economic instability EVERY first Monday of October is World Habitat Day. The idea is to take stock of the state …
NEW DELHI: Delhi State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (DSIIDC) will now venture into construction of green buildings after its success in construction of low-cost houses, schools and other infrastructure projects in the Capital. DSIIDC has been awarded the contract for construction of the extension building of National Institute of …
This paper describes and discusses community-driven land tenure initiatives to address the issue of access to land in urban areas in the Philippines. This includes countering actual and threatened displacements from market-driven land, housing and urban development policies, mega-infrastructure development and disasters. The paper begins with a review of the …
In India there are very few population based data on prevalence of depression. The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence of depression in an urban south Indian population. Subjects were recruited from the Chennai Urban Rural Epidemiology Study (CURES), involving 26,001 subjects randomly recruited from 46 of …
Mumbai The proposed Metro station near Nanavati Hospital, part of a typically high-traffic-density route, has been chosen for a pilot study on the implications of granting additional built-up rights on land along the Metro routes. The existing FSI in suburbs is 1 in a 500-m radius of a station. The …
The initiation of the ambitious drinking water project in Mango has not only lifted the mood of the residents, but that of real estate developers too. With the foundation stone being laid for the project that promises to end water woes of Mango, prospective customers are queuing up at the …
