The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
New Delhi: Chief minister Sheila Dikshit slammed the-Delhi Development Authority (DDA) on Thursday by calling it a “closed system” and an “elephant” that cannot match the pace at which the capital is progressing. “DDA has become like an elephant, which cannot ride or move. And when it moves, it is …
One lakh LIG/EWS housing units to be ready in three years Delhi Development Authority vice-chairman G. S. Patnaik on Tuesday reaffirmed the Authority's intention to deliver one lakh housing units for low-income and economically weaker sections of society within three years. He said construction of 20,040 EWS houses using prefab-technology …
There is some relief in sight for the allottees of Commonwealth Games Village flats. The Delhi Urban Art Commission (DUAC) has found the project acceptable “from the point of view of aesthetic quality of urban and environmental design”. But the commission has made it clear that issuing completion certificate for …
The Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board on Monday approved an action plan to make Delhi a slum free city by 2015 and decided to take up phase-wise relocation of a large number of clusters. It also announced the decision to allot 1,400 flats in January as part of the first …
Union Ministry wants Delhi of the future to be a vertical city where people are housed in high rises Condoning the illegalities of the past, the Union Urban Development Ministry wants Delhi of the future to be a vertical city where people are housed in high rises with quick access …
Lok Sabha on Monday passed the National Capital Territory of Delhi Laws (special provision) second bill, 2011. Replying to the debate on the bill, Union urban development minister Kamal Nath promised to prepare a visionary plan that will take into account the requirements for the next 25 years. Conceding that …
The Delhi High Court on Thursday issued contempt of court notices to the Delhi Government, the Delhi Development Authority and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi asking them to explain why contempt proceedings should not be initiated against them for their failure to build enclosures along the Yamuna in the Capital …
New Delhi: The Delhi high court on Thursday demanded an explanation from the state government why contempt of court proceedings shouldn’t be initiated against it for failing to construct enclosures along the Yamuna so that garbage could not be dumped into the river, especially during the festival season. HC issued …
On a complaint by former MLA Ramvir Singh Bidhuri and Arun Rai in land scam case Delhi Lokayukta Manmohan Sarin on Wednesday issued notice to Urban Development and Revenue Department of the Delhi Government and the Delhi Development Authority in the land scam involving regularisation of unauthorised colonies. Mr. Sarin …
Many colonies exist only on paper, yet all documents filed by society office bearers, architects It is the habit of successive governments of condoning illegalities that appear to have emboldened the land mafia which is desperately trying to grab public land in Delhi through the process of regularisation. While norms …
New Delhi: Delhi government’s prestigious waste-to-energy project at Okhla has hit a roadblock. MCD has turned down the proposal to construct an alternate route to the plant from Kalindi Kunj via Jasola. The agency arrived at the decision at a meeting held two days ago after residents and MCD councillors …
Farmers of Barwala village in outer Delhi forcibly stopped the construction of Delhi Development Authority (DDA) on Wednesday. The farmers took the extreme step as the deadline granted to the government for revised compensation on land acquisition passed on November 15. Around 1,500 farmers were detained and later released by …
Also orders re-examination of issuance of provisional certificates to colonies which existed only on paper A day after Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit ordered a probe into the alleged scam in which government land was sought to be usurped in the guise of regularisation of unauthorised colonies, the issue was raised …
The works committee of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) today gave approval to various schemes of Rs 100 crore. The chairman of the committee, Jagdish Mamgain, said the scheme includes permission for construction of roads and drains in 24 unauthorised colonies listed in 1,639 unauthorised colonies. The colonies include …
Multi-level, automated, open round-the-clock; capacity 824 cars With the number of privately-owned vehicles in the Capital going up sharply every year, parking has become an issue at every major market place. To address this problem, Delhi got its first automated multi-level car parking lot at the Sarojini Nagar market on …
More than four years ago, the Capital’s biggest land-owning agency, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), enforced a policy document called the Master Plan Delhi 2021 (MPD) to rapidly upgrade the city’s infrastructure. The policy, which was to regulate Delhi’s infrastructure development between 2001 and 2021, was notified seven years late, …
PWD Likely To Get Govt Nod To Integrate Controversial Corridor With Three New BRTs New Delhi: The controversial East-West Corridor may finally see the light of the day with PWD suggesting its integration with three new BRT corridors. “Parts of these three BRT corridors fall in the same route as …
On the basis of the findings of the four-member committee constituted to decide on the infrastructure that would be allowed to come up in and around farm houses, the Delhi Government would submit its views to the Union Urban Development Ministry for formulation of a farm house policy. This was …
Farmers belonging to Kisan Khetihar Majdoor Sangharsh Samiti assembled near Raj Ghat and later staged a demonstration near the Delhi Secretariat on Monday demanding adequate compensation for the land acquired by it. They also warned that they would not allow the Delhi Development Authority to go ahead with its projects …
Unwilling to let what's remaining of the Yamuna floodplains being taken away for construction, non-government organisation Yamuna Jiye Abhiyan (YJA) has again sought the Lieutenant-Governor Tejendra Khanna's intervention to save the riverbanks. The NGO has complained against “wilful encroachment in the river Yamuna bed (Zone O) by the Delhi Metro …
