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 …
This Master Plan is aimed to develop Port Blair and its environs progressively into self sustaining community, with socio-economic development and enhancement in quality life keeping in view of its ecologically fragile environment. The main objectives of the plan are: Regulating new physical entities and activities in an orderly manner; …
A national mission to make investments in 63 Indian cities over seven years has run half its course, but there are concerns about how projects are being chosen and whether all the money and effort will finally deliver an improved and inclusive urban environment. The Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal …
The Jawaharlal National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) aims to pursue reform, good governance and planned development in urban areas. It seeks to set up participatory, transparent and accountable processes, mechanisms and institutions to enable all citizens - poor and rich, men and women
While cities in Asia and the Pacific have been concentrating on their conventional infrastructure requirements, many cities are still discovering how to deal with the challenge of urban renewal in a broader sense. Many cities in the region do own old or historic inner-city areas of considerable historic and cultural …
Emphasis has been laid since long on the need for integrated catchment management and impactof landuse on catchment hydrology; but the two disciplines have not been amalgmated for creating catchment sensitive 'City Landuse plans'. This study aims at (a) utilizing hydrological modeling to understand the dynamics of an urban Himalayan …
Blessed with gigantic oil deposits, Abu Dhabi has the world's highest per capita consumption of energy. Now, a green metropolis is being built there, eventually to become a center for regenerative forms of energy. Is this going to work? A report from the construction site.
J. Venkatesan NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday extended the interim stay of the orders passed by the Delhi High Court stalling constructions in the Commonwealth Games village on the banks of river Yamuna in the Capital for holding the Games in 2010. During
BY MANISH ANAND NEW DELHI The Delhi chief min ister Sheila Dikshit, set to take charge of the capital for a historic third time in a row, made her priorities clear, ranging from the 2010 Commonwealth Games, cleaning of Yamuna to housing for the marginalised people. And for the illegal …
Nov. 5: The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the High Court order through which a four-member committee, led by Nobel Prize winner R.K. Pachauri, was constituted to assess the impact on environment due to the construction of Commonwealth Games Village which, environmentalists alleged, was being built on Yamuna river bed …
J. Venkatesan NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday stayed Delhi High Court orders stalling constructions in the upcoming Commonwealth Games Village on the banks of the Yamuna in Delhi for holding the games in 2010. A Bench of Chief Justice K. G. Balakrishnan and Justice P. Sathasivam stayed the …
The Ministry of Urban Development is the nodal Ministry for planning and coordination of Urban Transport matters at the central level. Urban Transport is not defined in the Constitution as a separate subject and the allocation of subjects between Central and State List is mode-wise. However, since Urban Transport is …
This report presents a conceptual framework that can be used by stakeholders concerned by the development and management of shared freshwater resources. The objective is to promote the sustainable and equitable use of transboundary water resources, and to clarify trade-offs relating to development. The report outlines a concept for analysing …
The urban poor are particularly vulnerable in times of crisis due to their heavy reliance on the cash economy, job losses and wage reductions in urban based industries, and no agricultural production to fallback on. Prioritizing investments in cities can help to mitigate impacts in the short run and reduce …
During the last 50 years, there have been several bilateral and multilateral initiatives for promoting City-to-City cooperation with varying objectives. These initiatives aim at bringing two or more cities closer to each other at the level of government, communities, and institutions/organisations with the objective of encouraging human contact and cultural …
Climate change impacts are a clear and present danger to the Indian sub-continent. This report presents case studies from different parts of India, where local communities are under the assault of climate change. Calls for action that can help in long term mitigation and local level adaptation and ten broad …
Maharashtra is one of the most urbanized and progressive States in the country and the State Government has been pro-active in its housing policies and establishing institutions to meet these challenges Dream Homes For "Aam Admi" With an underlying goal of providing shelter for all, the alliance Government under the …
The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in New Delhi has promised to review and modify the BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) corridor project, which it alleges has worsened traffic congestion in parts of the national capital and raised protests from citizens and town planners. In its manifesto for the Assembly election …
Mumbai, November 18 After considerable delay, the central government has disbursed the second installment of projects under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission taken up by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. The funds are for projects including the Middle Vaitarna dam and Mumbai Sewerage Disposal Project (MSDP) which will increase …
