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 …
SHASHANKSHEKHAR MUMBAI. MARCH 22 THE developers of Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) are likely to get some breathing space from encroaching slums as 20,000 of the 8,50,000 families inhabiting the area arc expected to be relocated by November, according to real estate developer Housing Development & Infrastructure Limited ( HDI …
T. Ramakrishnan CHENNAI: Land, measuring 323.7 acres all over the State and valued at nearly Rs. 305 crore, belonging to the Tamil Nadu Housing Board (TNHB), are under encroachment, according to an audit report on the annual accounts of the Board for 2007-2008. More than 50 per cent of it …
Pune, September 21 A day after floodwaters swept into hutments in Pimpri and Sangvi, irrigation officials ruled out rehabilitation support to the dwellers as the slums were encroaching the riverbed. On Saturday, it was the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation that had to evacuate people from the flooded hutments in Sangvi and …
Chennai THE biggest impediment in reviving the ooranies in the state seems to be encroachments, which have rendered the water bodies dry. At least 70 per cent of the 431 village ponds in Madurai district are rain fed and the rest are fed with water discharged from the Periyar for …
In north Tamil Nadu, small water bodies in villages are called kulams or kuttais. In the south, they go by the name ooranies. Lots of them have already been encroached upon, while a few have been revived. Swahilya visits a oorani that was revived recently. Here is what she found …
Hyderabad Aug. 21: Over 20,000 encroachments dot the 250-odd lake beds in and around the city. And this is all happening because the officials prefer to turn a blind eye to the illegal construction activities. The problem has been further compounded with the Hyderabad Urban Development Authority failing to demarcate …
By taking a case study from Chennai, this paper qualitatively assess pedestrian environment in an institutional zone. Techniques for assessing pedestrian facilities are discussed before undertaking evaluation of the pedestrian environment. Through this evaluation of pedestrian amenities and the quality of the pedestrian environment, the authors reveal serious shortcomings.
The floods of August 2006 are among the worst Gujarat's Surat city has experienced in recent times. The sudden release of a huge amount of water from the Ukai dam led to over 80 per cent of Surat going under water. More than 2 million people were incommunicado
Street vendors form a very important component of the urban informal sector in India. It is estimated that the total number of street vendors in the country is around 10 million.1 They comprise around 2% of the total population in the metropolitan cities. This paper broadly defines a street vendor …
vultures along with some 50 other species of birds have migrated from Delhi in the last few years as their traditional habitats have made way for unplanned urban development, says Rupin Dang, a naturalist. Bird counts and other census data show that about 30 years ago, the capital was home …
the residents of Municipal Corporation of Delhi's ( mcd) flats at Soami Nagar have accused the Delhi Development Authority ( dda ) of allotting a plot of land to the Indian Oil Corporation ( ioc ) for building a petrol pump on a piece of land that was earmarked for …
GOAN architects are getting warning signals from professional counterparts, that their small and still-charming state could go the chaotic Mumbai way. Mumbai has the distinction of being the
