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 …
During debates on the merits of bringing in private water experts to distribute drinking water to homes in urban India 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, one story is often repeated. It is the story of a woman, a daily wage earner from Hubli-Dharwad, tier-II twin towns in …
Isher Ahluwalia-led panel says the govt should invest at least . 32.4 lakh cr in 20 years The government needs to scale up urban development funding by at least 15% per annum in the 12th Plan (2011-17) to meet the challenges of rapid urbanisation in the country, an expert committee …
A high-powered expert committee on urban infrastructure, chaired by Isher Judge Ahluwalia, has recommended bringing the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM) and the housing and urban poverty alleviation under a single unified command to ensure that sustainable urbanisation was facilitated in the coun try without leaving out the …
This new report on Indian urban infrastructure and services by the High Powered Expert Committee (HPEC) chaired by Isher Judge Ahluwalia set up by the Ministry of Urban Development in May, 2008 documents the nature of the urbanisation challenges facing India. It argues that the challenge of managing urbanisation will …
JAIPUR: The Rajasthan Government has received Rs.200 crore for providing civic amenities in the slum colonies in 55 urban areas of the State under the Integrated Housing for Slum Development Programme and spent Rs.125 crore of the amount on various construction and development works. State Principal Urban Development Secretary G. …
Under the second phase of the Basic Service to the Urban Poor (BSUP) scheme of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) would construct 1,028 housing units for the urban poor families at Amingaon. The project is second biggest of its kind in the …
United Nation Development Programme's India Urban Poverty Report, 2009 has pegged the number of slum dwellers in Uttar Pradesh at 44 lakh. The sample survey, which was conducted under the 58th round of the National Sample Survey Organisation, also suggests that UP is next only to Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, …
NEW DELHI: As it struggles to get a grip on its finances in the post-Commonwealth Games scenario, the Delhi government on Monday got a Central grant of Rs 1257.86 crore in the Budget. Up from last year's Rs 1080.51 crore, this year's grant sets aside Rs 500 crore for infrastructure …
This paper explores notions of participation as located in ‘second generation’ or institutional reforms, particularly as articulated by prominent state-sponsored public-private partnerships such as the Bangalore Agenda Task Force (BATF) and the Tamilnadu Urban Development Fund (TNUDF). These ‘model’ partnerships provided key programmatic elements that became the basis of national …
This Report comes to the conclusion that India’s economic growth momentum cannot be sustained if urbanisation is not actively facilitated. Nor can poverty be addressed if the needs of the urban poor are isolated from the broader challenges of managing urbanisation. Cities will have to become the engines of national …
Maharashtra is home to the largest number of urban poor in the country, but Rs 817.63 crore meant to provide them basic amenities remain unused. Latest Union minister of housing and urban poverty alleviation figures reveal that the state has utilized only 42% of funds released under Jawaharlal Nehru National …
The housing and urban poverty alleviation ministry has said 25 states and Union Territories covered under the Basic Services for the Urban Poor (BSUP) scheme have utilised less than 50 per cent of funds allocated to them. In her reply to Parliament, housing minister Kumari Selja on Tuesday said the …
- Munda clears Rs 134cr JNNURM project for Jugsalai, Mango, Adityapur, Ghorabandha Ranchi, Feb. 22: Residents of Jamshedpur living outside the Tata command area can finally hope for better drinking water facilities with chief minister Arjun Munda clearing the decks for a Rs 134.43 crore project that is to be …
The Coimbatore Corporation came under severe criticism at the Friday's council meeting. Councillors complained about the delay in the implementation of various schemes, in disbursing payments to contractors, anomaly in vacant land tax collection and raised various other issues. P. Rajkumar, Ward 71 Councillor, started with the poor water supply. …
MUMBAI: The 12.24 km underground tunnel connecting Maroshi to Ruparel College is almost complete with the Vakola-Mahim portion getting ready on Tuesday. Work on the remaining portion-from Mahim to Ruparel College-will be completed in a couple of months, said officials. The area between and Ruparel College currently get water from …
Faridabad/New Delhi: This is one instance that shows how government agencies waste the funds they get from the Centre for renewal of urban infrastructure. A large number of sewer line jetting machines, animal catcher vans, mobile bins and JCBs that were procured for Faridabad Municipal Corporation (MCF) for Rs 5 …
PANJIM, FEB 4: A jetty facilitating anchoring of canoes by traditional fishermen, a road running alongside picturesque Mandovi River and a traditional Portuguese-era house could be the face of ward number 29 of CCP in the near future. The calm Mandovi River water meets Arabian Sea at a short distance …
