The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Tuesday made public a Rs3,215-crore comprehensive ‘City Cleaning Plan’ (CCP) under the national urban cleanliness policy, focussing on water supply, sewage and solid waste management, and protection of environment. It will seek budgetary support of Rs603 crore from the PMC standing committee, which is …
It will provide credit risk guarantee to banks on the loans Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday announced that the Centre was considering setting up a credit risk guarantee fund with a corpus of Rs. 1,000 crore, to start with, to encourage banks to lend to the poor for housing. …
Mumbai is in reality a city of places that are not a part of the current set of fantasies that rule the minds of urban planners but are yet integrally linked to capitalist processes, to urban practices of place-making and to urbanism itself. From this perspective, this enquiry seeks not …
The right to the city, an idea mooted by French radical philosophers in 1968, has become a popular slogan among right to housing activists and inclusive growth policymakers. In Indian cities unprecedented and unregulated growth, incremental land use change, privatisation and chaotic civic infrastructure provisioning are fracturing resources created over …
The transformation of human settlements over time can affect the relationship between communities and commons when, for example, social geographies change from rural to urban, or from traditional systems of management to modern bureaucratic systems. Communities that were dependent on particular commons could become less dependent, or abandon those commons. …
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) on Monday made it mandatory for all realtors to get an environment clearance certificate before launching building projects spread over 20,000 sq-metre plus. According to the GPCB, any building project over 20,000 sq-metre has to get a clearance. But there are several projects in …
Urbanisation in India is occurring at a rate that is faster compared to many other parts of the developing world. The Planning Commission of the Government of India estimates that about 40 per cent of the country’s population will be residing in urban areas by 2030. However, as conurbations and …
In an effort towards the planned and sustainable development of Port Blair town and the surrounding villages which are environmentally sensitive and ecologically fragile, the Hon’ble Lt. Governor has approved the Master Plan for Port Blair Planning Area and the approval is notified in A &N; gazette. The Master Plan …
On a complaint by former MLA Ramvir Singh Bidhuri and Arun Rai in land scam case Delhi Lokayukta Manmohan Sarin on Wednesday issued notice to Urban Development and Revenue Department of the Delhi Government and the Delhi Development Authority in the land scam involving regularisation of unauthorised colonies. Mr. Sarin …
AFTER having missed several deadlines, the much-awaited Bangalore Metro finally began operations on October 20 on its first stretch – Reach 1 of the Eastern line, part of Phase I of the Metro project. Reach 1 was inaugurated by Union Minister for Urban Development Kamal Nath in the presence of …
The Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA) has ordered that a stop-work notice be issued to a slum rehabilitation project coming up on a prime plot abutting the sea in Nariman Point, alleging it is illegal. The construction is underway right behind the Manora hostel for state legislature members. The …
The Haryana Government is setting up night shelters in all districts of the state to facilitate urban homeless persons. Such shelters have either already been constructed or are under construction. The night shelters are being constructed on the directions of the Supreme Court to arrange food and night stay and …
The dream of Ranchi as a hygiene haven will remain just that — a dream — at least for some more time. The big-budget, ambitious plan to realign the capital’s shoddy network of sewers and drains, which had been hanging fire for four years over a litany of contentious issues …
Bhopal : Urban Administration and Development Minister Babulal Gaur inaugurated 43rd annual conference of All-India Mayors’ Council at Indore today. Gaur said that planned work has to be undertaken to provide all the facilities to people coming to cities from villages. He said that with this in view, work is …
Environmental clearance for the development of hill station township at village Mulshi and Velhe Talukas, district Pune, Maharashtra by M/s. Lavasa Corporation Ltd.
PANJIM: After a long wait, Corporation of the City of Panjim has secured a Rs 168 crore grant from the Centre under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) to augment its 24-hour potable water supply proposal. Speaking to Herald, Mayor Yatin Parkeh said that the grant was released last …
Gifting of land, or bhoodan in Hindi, is the current obsession of the government. It is on a spree of acquiring land. This is often termed as bhoodan to corporate houses. There is another kind of bhoodan that is being talked about. For a country that is demographically young, this …
Report of Professor K.T. Ravindran, Chairman - Expert Committee to examine the quantum of penalty and creation of environmental restoration fund for Lavasa city project, Pune district.
B K Chaturvedi committee’s recommendations may form part of the final 12th Plan document. One common complaint that most states aired at the just-concluded National Development Council meeting was the inflexibility of certain centrally-sponsored schemes (CSS) when it came to addressing local requirements. This was against the backdrop of a …
GUWAHATI: Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi stressed on the need of conservation of water bodies for a better Guwahati. He also emphasized on demarcation of the Guwahati Metropolitan region to control the fringe area development during a presentation by the Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT), Ahmedabad, on ‘Carrying Capacity …
