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, …
Pushing the country's food security at risk, nearly 69,000 hectares of agricultural land have been shrinking annually due to rapid industrialisation, unplanned urbanisation and increase in rural settlements, according to a recent study. The study reveals that annual loss of agricultural land in Bangladesh was 13,412 hectares during 1976-2000 and …
There is a ray of hope for hundreds of urban waterbodies, victims of urbanisation and industrial pollution. A combination of bio-ozolyte treatment process and bio-remediation adopted by the State government to save the Ooty Lake, can be used to recover these polluted water bodies. According to officials, phosphorus and nitrogen …
Gurgaon got the lion's share of Rs 605.48 crore in the total budget estimate of Rs 890.77 crore approved for development works in the urban estate developed by the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) across the state. Stormwater drainage system, construction of a flyover, special repairs of roads connecting Surajkund …
Delay in completion of port road connectivity (PRC) projects and loss of toll revenue had resulted in a loss of around Rs 873.85 crore to the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), said the Comptroller and Auditor General of India. The CAG observed this while reviewing the operations of special …
Despite the growing evidence from other developing countries, intra-urban inequality in childhood undernutrition is poorly researched in India. Additionally, the factors contributing to the poor/non-poor gap in childhood undernutrition have not been explored. This study aims to quantify the contribution of factors that explain the poor/non-poor gap in underweight, stunting, …
This new UN report explores why increasing disaster risks represent a growing problem for the economic & business community and provides a review of practices that can reduce their risk of disaster loss. It is based on review of disaster losses in 56 countries. The third edition of the United …
Two new projects on solid waste management and improving water supply have been sanctioned for Rajkot under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), the flagship programme of central government. These projects are for improving solid waste management and water supply in the city. "A sum of Rs 73.65 crore …
The Maharashtra government will table the over 690-page report of the Adarsh inquiry commission before the state cabinet. So far, the state has spent around Rs3.65 crore on the commission, which was set up in January 2011. “The commission’s findings on the terms of reference may be put before the …
Construction of the international airport in Navi Mumbai is set for further delay as a high- level Environment Ministry panel has sought more details from the project proponents about the forest area to be diverted for its execution. The Forest Advisory Committee (FAC), which concluded its two-day meeting here today, …
Medha Patkar is fasting for the rights of the poor whose homes in Mumbai’s Golibar are being razed. People’s lives are at stake. Is anyone paying attention, asks Sunaina Kumar. Her 84-year-old mother told her just before she went on yet another indefinite fast, “Why are you fasting again, Medha? …
Rising demands of new middle class will be explosive in emerging nations, says new study India needs to put in place a smart policy to ensure energy efficiency as it urbanises and builds infrastructure rapidly, a top executive of global oil and gas firm Shell says. “A probably biggest social …
The 2013 Global Monitoring Report (GMR) marks the tenth edition of the GMR since the inception of the report in 2004. The GMR continues to provide an annual assessment of progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This assessment allows the World Bank and the IMF together with the larger …
Building upon previous work of the International Resource Panel on Decoupling Natural Resource Use and Environmental Impacts from Economic Growth, this report examines the potential for decoupling at the city level. While the majority of the worlds population now live in cities and cities are where most resource consumption takes …
Feeling the heat A study was carried out by Scientists of Jammu’s Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agriculture, Science and Technology to find decadal temperature trends across different zones of the state The focus was to study the rise in temperature over a 10-year period for 30 years The average high in …
Suggests highest qualified professionals at government housing wings Achieving equitable urbanisation in Bangalore still remains a concern. Rapidly growing cities across the globe evoke similar sentiments. Encrusting his suggestions in the context of development of Bangalore, Alfredo Brillembourg, professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the Department of Architecture, Swiss …
Survey in March records steady depletion While skyscrapers increase in height and density at the cost of natural water resources like paddy fields, the groundwater level in the district has touched a new low this year. A March-2013 survey by the Groundwater Department of their 54 sample wells across the …
Over 3,000 trees, including those falling within the Narpuh Reserve Forest in eastern Meghalaya, might face the axe for the proposed widening of the National Highway 44 which connects the state to Assam. The Rs 368.88 crore project, covering 100 km through West and East Jaintia Hills districts, would also …
The government has started mapping the entire network of motorable roads in the country as part of its plan to implement scientific transport management. Over 500 routes including inner city roads will be studied under this programme which aims to improve smooth operation of vehicles. Public vehicles currently operate on …
While the process of industrialisation is facing many problems that need to be addressed, the problem of land for industry is among the most serious. Many major projects today are stuck due to problems related to land acquisition.
This Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (C&AG;) on Government of Odisha relates to matters arising from Performance Audit of selected department, programmes / schemes and Compliance Audit of Government Departments and Autonomous Bodies. This is the second volume of the Report of the C&AG; of India …
