Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
The national mission on sustainable habitat approved by Prime minister. It is one of the eight missions under national climate change action plan and aims to make cities sustainable through improvements in energy efficiency in buildings, management of solid waste & shift to public transport. The National Mission for Sustainable …
mumbai’s municipal corporation has proposed fixed hawking zones in the city. Its draft byelaws for regulating hawking are ready and were open for public comments till April 20. “We have received over 350 responses. Once approved, the Hawkers (Occupation and Regulation) Byelaws of 2009 would be forwarded to the state …
The latest Cooum river restoration project in Chennai aims to focus on slum eviction as an achievable first step. A 19-kilometre elevated expressway on the river is also planned. Together estimated to displace over 18,000 families from the banks of the Cooum, these two projects testify to how waterfront development, …
The Town and Country Planning Board has decided not to approve any project in areas notified as eco-sensitive, Chief Minister Digambar Kamat said here today. Kamat
Paul John | TNN Ahmedabad: It was a PIL that freed Gandhinagar from the clutches of the babus in September last year. The Gujarat government displayed a haste and declared Gandhinagar a municipal corporation on May 1
Gandhinagar Turned Out Differently From What Was Conceived, But Not For The Better Paul John | TNN Very few people know that chief architect of Gandhinagar HK Mewada, and Prakash Apte, another town planner who assisted him, had first placed an abstract Gandhi memorial on banks of the Sabarmati. Drawing …
Sindh government will be spending Rs 440.800 million on the Establishment of Urban Policy and Strategic Planning Unit (EUPSPU) that is supposed to provide technical support to the Planning and Development Department, Business Recorder learnt on Tuesday. Sources in the Finance Department (FD) informed that the EUPSPU would have no …
J. Venkatesan New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered that the status quo be maintained with regard to the Allahabad High Court's interim order restraining the Lucknow Development Authority from raising the fence so as to preserve the green belt near the city's Bhagidari Bhavan area. A three-Judge Bench …
"Energy Efficient Cities: Assessment Tools and Benchmarking Practices" has been developed from a careful review of selected papers presented during two ESMAP-sponsored sessions at the fifth World Bank Urban Research Symposium,
Metro rails are under construction in Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru. Smaller urban centres are also drawn to it. It is fashionable to place metros in city planning and budgets. Invariably, a coterie of engineers, bureaucrats and ministers make such public transport choices. For a mega-project with unnecessary and irreversible impacts, …
LALIT SHASTRI BHOPAL The Madhya Pradesh government has decided at the initiative of chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to scrap the Bhopal Master Plan
Computing profit and loss of Metro projects is tricky. Such projects all over the world are known for running into a loss. These capital-intensive projects cost between Rs 110 crore and 210 crore per km of elevated corridors. Cost of underground Metro is three times. There are over 130 projects …
Many see slums as failed parts of cities. They are regarded as parts of a city that do not conform to ruling ideas of an ideal city held by people in other parts of the city. There have been some changes in the way people have looked at slums ever …
OUR understanding of Indian cities— their history, geography, sociology, politics— is seriously limited. At the time of its Independence, India was primarily a rural country. The government invested heavily in understanding rural India. Take the case of the adivasis. The government assigned sociologists and anthropologists to understand the Scheduled Tribes; …
This paper addresses climate change and slum-based poverty among the challenges of sustainable urbanisation. It asserts that the slums will also be the locations most vulnerable to hazards linked to extreme weather, such as flooding or hurricanes, and thus advocates for hazard mitigation strategies to have a
This new report by Mckinsey warns that lack of effective policies to manage urbanization could jeopardize India's GDP growth rate. Suggests adoption of a new operational model for cities with an investment of $1.2 trillion to keep pace with the growing urbanization. India
Amid protests by members of the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Delhi government today cleared the Delhi Industrial Development Operation and Maintenance Bill in the Assembly. The new industrial policy is aimed at putting the Capital
Goa's outspoken member of Parliament, Shantaram Naik, has this time called for steps to regulate land transactions in the State. Without doubt, this is a matter which has been causing significant concern here. Landowners are willing to sell out in many cases -- maybe the financial pressures are simply too …
