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 Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) was launched in December 2005 by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in keeping with its Common Minimum Programme. It was a form of reform that urban areas in the country desperately needed before they spiralled into haphazard and over-flowing cities. The …
The number of people living in acute poverty in Mizoram are fast increasing but the successive governments continue to display indifferent attitude to this issue. In Aizawl alone there are over 60,000 people living in Mizoram version of slum areas. They are officially called
The housing and urban poverty alleviation ministry is facing teething problems trying to formulate the implementation and financing pattern of the UPA government
Tripura Government has urged the Centre to introduce an employment guarantee scheme for the urban poor on the lines of NREGA. Addressing the National Conference on the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) in Delhi recently, Tripura Urban Development Minister Manik De said ascheme, like NREGA, ought to be …
The high level committee of urban development ministry today decided to have in-depth study on three major projects under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) before giving it a final shape. The three big budget projects- comprehensive mobilizing plan (Rs 20 crore), E-governance (Rs 15 crore) and development of …
Only Select States May Have Access To Funds Based On Reforms Undertaken Amiti Sen & Arindam Ghosh NEW DELHI ATEAM from the World Bank will be in New Delhi soon to work out the nitty-gritties of a $1-billion loan to the urban development ministry for carrying forward the cash-starved flagship …
Sandeep Joshi Prime Minister Manmohan Singh presents the JNNURM Award for Best City and Mass Transit Projects to Mumbai, during the National Conference on the JNNURM, in New Delhi on Thursday. NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday asserted that the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government was committed to …
Kakoly Chatterjee, Yogima Seth New Delhi: Eleven months down the line, only 1,800 buses have been delivered so far against the expected 14,000 buses under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) announced in January, 2009. This has triggered a blame game between the urban development ministry and bus …
SHILLONG, Nov 26: The politics surrounding the third phase of the Greater Shillong Water Supply Scheme (GSWSS) has eventually been cleared after the Meghalaya United Alliance (MUA) Government assigned the Public Health Engineering (PHE) to allocate the construction work of the mega project funded under the Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewable …
Having shown dismal performance in the implementation of various projects under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, the state government has now asked the Central government to sanction a drinking water project for Amritsar. The project, worth about Rs 50 crore, has been approved but on the condition that …
MUMBAI: In a bid to bring about greater transparency in the utilisation of funds allotted for urban development projects, the civic body will video-tape its under construction buildings and post it on its portal. Agencies will soon be appointed for the video-shoots. The BMC took this decision following a state …
three hundred new buses bought by the state government with central funds have found no takers. Of the 900-plus semi-low floor and low-floor buses purchased under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission scheme, 600 have hit the road. About half are being run by private operators and the rest …
The Central Government is likely to allocate additional Rs 1,000 crore for the 2010 Commonwealth Games under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Renewal Mission (JNNURM). Top sources said that both Ministry of Urban Development and Ministry of Home Affairs have given green signal to use funds under JNNURM for the project …
THE Union ministry of urban development has evolved a system for evaluating urban transportation services in cities across India. All cities covered by the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission have been advised to benchmark their level of services (los) for various parameters specified by the ministry. The parameters on …
PRASHANT PANDEY Three more cities -- Ambala, Kanpur and Dehra Dun -- were on Wednesday included on the list of counter-magnet cities for the national capital region (NCR) with the aim to check migration in Delhi. The funding for the development projects in these cities may be made available through …
The only positive change visible in Indian cities indicating that policy and action to meet the urban challenge are moving in the right direction is the significant number of shiny, new low-floor buses funded by the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). Somewhere along the way Delhi acquired a …
Pune It's been a long wait of three years for nearly 1,000 families from the economically weaker section in the city staying on non-developmental zones such as hill slopes and river banks. But three months from now, they will be able to move to their own flats in January 2010. …
Report: Capital Failed To Introduce E-Governance, Community Participation Law New Delhi: The Capital has failed to show the way as Delhi is lagging way behind other metros when it comes to execution of path-breaking reforms under Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), aimed at revamping infrastructure and urban governance in …
