Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) can now push its river restoration as well as construction and development of heritage sites along the Mula-Mutha river projects to completion at the earliest. The reason is that the Central government has released Rs56.63 crore to the PMC for executing infrastructure projects under the …
The civic body is trying to identify place for more transfer stations for proper municipal solid waste management under JNNURM project. While the city needs to have four transfer stations, presently, only one transfer station is in operation, said health in-charge of Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) Munnalal Yadav. He further …
Hyderabad: The city could be heading for a major health crisis if current conditions in the city continue the way they are, say experts. Such an event could very well happen if the municipal authorities do not pull up their socks to improve sanitation and urgently clean up the city. …
The irony was not lost on anyone when Meerut, part of the ancient Harappan settlement renowned for its sophisticated drainage systems, was promised a decent sewerage system under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewable Mission (JNNURM) as late as 2005. The city seemed poised for a facelift after centuries of …
The Centre is working on a new scheme of affordable housing for the economically weaker sections in urban areas. The plan will be different from the UPA government's flagship JNNURM, one of the two sub-missions which the ministry of housing and urban poverty alleviation is anchoring. Apart from housing, the …
The ministry of urban transport is giving a major push to improve ridership in bus transport services across all major Indian cities by 2020. Delhi and Pune are targeting a ridership of 80 per cent, while Kolkata and Bangaluru are targeting 90 per cent each. Unfortunately, poor management and operational …
To link Siruvani distribution network with Pilloor network To overcome any difficulty it may have on the water supply front in Summer 2013, the Coimbatore Corporation has initiated a few measures. Disclosing the details, Commissioner T.K. Ponnusamy said that the civic body planned to link the Siruvani distribution network with …
A total of two Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) projects were sanctioned under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) in the country during the last three years and the current year. None of the two projects have missed their deadlines for completion. Ministry of Urban Development is continuously …
Last week, a scathing report by the CAG on the performance of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) was tabled in Parliament. Lasting from 2005 to March 2012, JNNURM was the Central government’s largest ever initiative to address the challenges of India’s rapid urbanisation. The scheme envisaged a …
Jharkhand today sought assistance from a visiting team of World Bank and central officials for a pending sewerage and drainage project in Ranchi and unbundling of the state power utility. The plan to install a centralised sewerage and drainage system in Ranchi has been pending for years due to several …
Improved water and sanitation facilities, better housing, streamlined transportation systems and waste management are some of the services that smaller cities in the country can look forwards to in the next phase of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, the flagship programme of the Union Urban Development Ministry. The …
The 75-crore solid waste management plant coming up at Jhiri, near Ratu, under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) is expected to become operational by March-end. Officials of A2Z Waste Management Private Limited — the partner agency of Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) that is constructing the plant — said …
Haryana is considering introducing a Mono rail between Faridabad and Gurgaon, which will further accelerate the pace of development in the area, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said on Sunday. The modalities of the project will be worked out, Mr. Hooda told a rally here while announcing a slew of …
The Union Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) has had to scale down the specifications for buses run under its flagship programme, the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), to bridge the gap in demand and supply. On Wednesday, a senior official of the Ministry said unlike the accent on …
The Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission's seven-year voyage seems to have yielded little, at a great cost. And, says a performance audit of the programme by the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General ( CAG), the main reason has not been corruption or leakages but ennui and poor …
Thousands of unfinished projects, diversion of funds to the tune of . 115 crore and lack of accountability and monitoring were some findings of a CAG report on the Centre’s flagship urban renewal project, the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), implemented by state governments. The CAG report on …
‘All the way from basic guidelines to implementation and monitoring of projects’. From basic guidelines to implementation and subsequent monitoring of projects, the Union Ministry of Urban Development’s flagship programme — the Jawaharlal National Urban Renewal Mission — has failed on all counts, says the Comptroller and Auditor General in …
The CAG has pointed out gaping loopholes in the implementation of the JNNURM, the Centre’s flagship urban infrastructure development scheme, ranging from diversion of funds to the tune of Rs115 crore to ineligible beneficiaries getting benefits, inadequate monitoring capacity and undue favours to contractors among several others. The Comptroller and …
Recent reform programmes for achieving "slum-free" cities, like the Basic Services for the Urban Poor, signal a new integrated approach to slum redevelopment that combines housing, infrastructure and land titling. The new policy paradigm speaks the language of inclusiveness and efficiency, but its outcome has been far from ideal. This …
Identification of urban poor households is a necessary condition for more effectively targeting the beneficiaries under various poverty alleviation programmes being implemented by the Central and the State Governments. Programmes of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, such as the Swarna Jayanti Shahri Rozgar Yojna (SJSRY) for Livelihoods, …
