In this report, ESCAP explores the future of urbanization in Asia and the Pacific, focusing on the dynamic shifts in the region’s urban landscape. It highlights the region’s demographic transformations, including population ageing, and the persistent challenges of urban poverty and inequality. The analysis covers urban areas of all sizes, …
The second phase of the Tamil Nadu Vision 2023 Document contains reports on the sector strategy approach and profiles of infrastructure projects proposed for implementation in the identified sectors. The document – whose first part was released in March 2012 – includes profiles of 217 infrastructure projects in six major …
The African continent is currently in the midst of simultaneously unfolding and highly significant demographic, economic, technological, environmental, urban and socio-political transitions. Africa’s economic performance is promising, with booming cities supporting growing middle classes and creating sizable consumer markets. But despite significant overall growth, not all of Africa performs well. …
Urban Greening Guidelines, 2014 is the outcome of blatant and random concretization of pavements in Indian cities. Of late, a number of Urban Development Authorities and Urban Local Bodies have undertaken large scale concretization of pavements which has resulted in destruction of a large number of trees by first rendering …
The weekly digest of important reports, research, policy documents, regulations, studies, court cases, protests,conflicts, initiatives, photos, data, statistics, infographics, presentations on the India Environment Portal, 01 - 08 February 2014.
The government is going to implement a Tk 27.88 billion project to upgrade Jaidevpur-Chandra-Tangail-Elenga highway to use it as SAARC Highway Corridor-4 to facilitate road connectivity with neighbouring countries, reports UNB. According to official sources, the Communications Ministry took up the project in line with the plan of the South …
The Punjab Government on Monday approved fourteen development schemes with an estimated cost of Rs 13259.249 million. These schemes were approved in the 27th meeting of Provincial Development working Party of current fiscal year 2013-14 presided over by the Punjab Planning and Development Board Chairman, Muhammad Irfan Elahi, said P&D; …
Locals at Durchhim VDC in the western part of the district have constructed a rural road section in their own initiation and investment. They constructed 12 kilometres of the 'Mauwapani- Ratamate' road section by collecting funds and through voluntary labour. Locals, VDC employees and members of users committee had overwhelmingly …
Davos : India has been ranked at a low 155th position in a global list that places countries on how well they perform on high-priority environmental issues. The 2014 Environmental Performance Index (EPI), released today here, has ranked 178 countries in total. Among them, India is placed at the 155th …
Hill cutting goes on unabated at North Pahartali in Chittagong city in the name of unauthorised housing projects. Two such housing projects named 'Shapla Residential Area' and 'Model Palli' had been developed there by razing more than a dozen hills, locals said. Several more hills were also in the process …
Construction work on the four-lane road from Bargachhi to Dudgdha Bikash Chowk of Biratnagar will begin from mid-February. Work will be commencing after a long wait. Engineer, Sovit Lal Thakur of Road Division Office, Itahari, said the road will be 30-metre wide. He said the contractor companies have completed all …
The government will initiate a project to protect and reinforce the upcountry road network, specially places threatened by landslides, with the assistance of the Japanese government this year. Ports, Highways and Shipping Project Minister Nirmala Kothalawala said places vulnerable to landslides have been identified in the upcountry road network and …
Out of Rs. 580 million allocated for blacktopping the Gokuleshwor-Darchula road section in Darchula district, around Rs. 550 million has been spent so far, according to the Office of the Road Division, Patan. Around 10 kilometers of the road still remains to be blacktopped whereas the Office Chief Sanjay Shrestha …
The project aims to build roads, water and sanitation systems, markets and bus terminals for municipal services The World Bank will give $410m credit to promote municipal governance and basic urban services in district towns and municipalities in Bangladesh. The credit from the International Development Association, the World Bank’s arm …
The diagnostic for Madurai has outlined that for stakeholders in the city, gaps in Madurai’s ‘blue-green infrastructure’ is perhaps the most pressing nexus of challenges the city needs to address to safeguard its long term future. The range of issues of particular importance include increasing demand for water resources, poor …
The State Government has come up with an ambitious development programme in the road sector planning an investment of `15,000 crore during next five years. Official sources said technical assistance of World Bank has also been sought for institutionalising a sound asset management system. A proposal in this regard has …
China's wetlands have shrunk nearly 9 percent since 2003, forestry officials said on Monday, aggravating water scarcity in a country where food production, energy output and industrial activity are already under pressure from water shortages. China has more than a fifth of the world's population but only 6 percent of …
The housing shortage in the urban areas has touched 18.78 million units, where 95% of the shortage is in the economically weaker section and low income group, a report by the National Housing Bank (NHB) said. The Report on Trend and Progress of Housing in India - 2013 said the …
President Mahinda Rajapaksa has allocated a colossal amount of funds in the history of the country for the development of rural road network in 2014, said Anuradhapura district MP Shehan Semasinghe. He was addressing a meeting held to mark the donation of a set of water tanks to Galapitagala Supirithodaya …
The Department of Roads has so far reconstructed a total 40 kilometres of roads in the Kathmandu Valley in course of the ongoing road-widening works. Secretary at the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport, Tulasi Prasad Sitaula, said that so far 40 kilometres out of the 105 kilometres of the …
The Madras High Court has upheld the petitions of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to go ahead with the 107-km Tiruchi-Karaikudi highway project spread across three districts in south and central Tamil Nadu. The Rs 374-crore project is being implemented by the private concessionaire, Transstroy Tiruchi-Karaikudi Tollways Pvt …
