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 …
Speaking to BW, the Union minister of urban development and poverty alleviation, Kamal Nath, points out that the challenge is to clear the backlog Over the past 20 years, India’s urban infrastructure has improved a lot. Yet, the pressure on power supply, road connectivity, water, and housing has increased. Some …
Speaking to BW, the Union minister of urban development and poverty alleviation, Kamal Nath, points out that the challenge is to clear the backlog Over the past 20 years, India’s urban infrastructure has improved a lot. Yet, the pressure on power supply, road connectivity, water, and housing has increased. Some …
SHILLONG: The JNNURM buses that ply in the Shillong city have even impressed the Leader of opposition, Conrad Sangma to whom the buses have given a new face to the people of the city. The 40 JNNURM bus project has been appreciated from all sections as commuters now no longer …
SHILLONG: The inability of the State Government to conduct Municipal elections in the State has hit the overall implementation of the Greater Shillong Water Supply Scheme (GSWSS) (Phase III) under the JNNURM after the Central Government decided to cut the 2nd installment of fund to the State by 10 per …
SHILLONG: The State Government’s failure to live up with the committed urban developmental reforms underlined by the Union Ministry of Urban Development has had its impact on the centrally funded third phase of the Greater Shillong Water Supply Scheme (GSWSS). The third phase of the GSWSS was earmarked at Rs …
SHILLONG: Seventeen towns and cities have been chosen as benificiaries under the Rajiv Awas Yojna. In pursuance of the Government’s vision of creating a slum-free India, a new scheme called ‘Rajiv Awas Yojana’(RAY) was launched on June 2 this year, which is expected to cover about 250 cities across the …
NEW DELHI: Shillong township, which is bursting at the seams, will now get a much needed relief, with the Centre agreeing to assist in the development of the new township at an estimated cost of over one thousand crore rupees. The Centre has given the go ahead for construction of …
KOCHI: Giving fresh hopes for opening up a new corridor to the city, the state government on Wednesday sanctioned Rs25 crore for acquiring land for the widening of Thammanam-Pulleppady Road. The first road in the city to be renovated under the detailed town planning (DTP) scheme, the Thammanam-Pulleppady stretch will …
SHILLONG: The introduction of a fleet of forty new buses in Greater Shillong has ensured that the commuters need not wait for transportation. The Barik Point, the heart of the city, is now found to be deserted. The State transport authorities have requested all passengers and commuters of SPTS buses …
‘Land acquisition a hurdle for RAY implementation’ NEW DELHI: Meghalaya has supported the grand idea of a slum-free India through the maiden initiative of Rajiv Awas Yojana, but at the same time expressed difficulties to implement the same since the hill State, which falls under the Sixth Schedule of the …
Calcutta, July 31: The Centre has stopped giving the Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC) funds under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission because of its refusal to levy water tax and inability to bring almost half the houses in the city under the property tax net. Delhi has not issued …
This report by Manthan Adhyayan Kendra discusses the concerns around the private water supply augmentation project in Khandwa town in Madhya Pradesh under the Urban Infrastructure Development Scheme for Small and Medium Towns (UIDSSMT), a Government of India scheme for infrastructure development in small and medium town. The number of …
Hidden behind city branding exercises through large projects are acts of land capture and slum demolitions by a predatory local state and crony capitalism. In the policy arena, meanwhile, the urban, and particularly the metropolitan story has been one of deliberate confusion, and fragmentation of policy and implementation. The promise …
While the outcomes of the Lok Sabha and the state assembly elections have been well documented and analysed, little is known about the electoral geography in urban areas. In discussing the conflicting interests of local politics and urban development, this article places the definition and understanding of what is “urban” …
AHMEDABAD: In the next three months, a small army of workers in uniforms will be spending the nights cleaning Ahmedabad's streets. But before you witness this 'Surat phenomenon', the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) is trying to solve the problem of collecting garbage from the bins. For a long time, the …
Faced with widespread criticism against its solid waste treatment plant at Brahmapuram, Kochi Corporation has decided to convince the neighbouring civic bodies of the need for a new plant. Protests are mounting from several neighbouring panchayats and municipalities against the dumping of waste at the plant site and the refusal …
SHILLONG: The Meghalaya Transport and Urban Affairs Department has been set a deadline of 15 July, 2011 to flag off the JNNURM busses in Shillong. The JNNURM busses, according to State Transport Minister AT Mondal, will cover the greater Shillong area. The buses are under a separate cell of Meghalaya …
Agency running Brahmapuram plant decides to opt out of responsibility Centre for Environment and Development has served the three-month notice period Plant site already overflowing with garbage collected from various parts of the city KOCHI: The Centre for Environment and Development (CED), the agency that has been running the solid …
Much more needs to be done to meet the basic needs of the existing urban population, even as one plans for future migrants. Our cities and towns may still not account for 50 per cent of the population, but they play a major role in economic development, governance and planning. …
