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 …
Delhi Assembly committee to send detailed recommendation to Sheila In a landmark decision that would ease the process of trimming and pruning of trees, the Environment Committee of the Delhi Assembly has held that land owning agencies like the Delhi Development Authority, Public Works Department, New Delhi Municipal Council and …
Lieutenant-Governor launches International Year of Forests celebration by planting a sapling Amid a growing demand from nature lovers that Sanjay Van, a city forest spread over 783 acres near Neela Hauz, be made a bird sanctuary, the 2011 International Year of Forests celebration was launched by Lieutenant-Governor Tejendra Khanna on …
As the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) could not find a place for the construction of a new Solid Landfill Site (SLF) to dump the city’s garbage, the civic body has decided on remediation of waste deposited at three SLFs — Bhalaswa, Ghazipur and Okhla — so that space can …
The Delhi Cabinet on Wednesday decided to revise the Special Rehabilitation Package for land owners of four villages in North West District. Following the meeting, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said the Cabinet considered the proposal submitted by Land and Building Department for revising Special Rehabilitation Package that had been announced …
DDA allotted them land at concessional rates Private hospitals in the Capital continue to evade their responsibility to provide 25 per cent free out-patient department facilities and 10 per cent free in-patient department facilities to patients from the economically weaker section category, a study on “Free Treatment in the Private …
DDA to take up work to clean-up, restore the lake; INTACH to provide expertise After struggling for years trying to clean up three main lakes in the city — Sanjay Lake, Bhalaswa Lake and Hauz Khas Lake — Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has now turned to INTACH for help. Incidentally, …
With the three landfill sites in the city full to the brim and every resident continuing to account for at least half-a-kilogram of municipal waste everyday, Delhi is staring at a sanitation crisis. The Delhi government has informed the Delhi High Court that it has identified, in consultation with the …
New Delhi: In the first step towards streamlining and managing Delhi’s water, Delhi Jal Board and Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) organized the first consultative workshop on formulating ‘Water Policy for Delhi’ on Wednesday. Stakeholders from agencies like Delhi Development Authority, Central Pollution Control Board and …
The Delhi Development Authority has issued guidelines for its neighbourhood parks to ensure their uniform maintenance and development standards. The new guidelines also comes with a measure of public participation in park development and maintenance as feedback from park users will be invited before undertaking works on park premises. The …
Multi-level parking lots may be touted as the answer to parking problems in the city, but many of the automated or conventional parking projects that were supposed to be constructed by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and Delhi Development Authority (DDA) have failed to materialise. Both the agencies had …
Jal Board Blames DDA For Blocking Sewer Lines While Covering Drains New Delhi: Sewage is flowing from the taps of the upscale Defence Colony homes. Harried residents are being forced to buy drinking water. Residents complain they have been receiving smelly and discoloured water for almost a month. When they …
Despite missing a May 31 deadline set by high court for cleaning Neela Hauz lake, Delhi Development Authority and Public Works Department(PWD) are still sparring over increasing the depth of the water body. Needless to say, no work on developing the lake has beugn even though plans have been ready …
The CAG audit report has pointed out that Delhi Development Authority’s (DDA) decision to select private developer Emaar MGF for building the Commonwealth Games Village on a public-private-partnership model was ridden with irregularities. In response to the DDA’s request for proposal to hire a private developer, two bids were received, …
The CAG’s report on the CWG that is likely to be tabled in Parliament on Friday, has blamed the DDA for not abiding with the conditions set forth by the ministry of environment and forest (MoEF) before granting conditional clearance for constructing the Games Village on the banks of Yamuna. …
New Delhi: The Munak canal controversy between Delhi and Haryana was resolved recently but the city will reap the benefits of an extra 80 million gallons of water per day only after a couple of months. Work on the Delhi side of the canal will be completed around October which …
Infrastructure and construction design and engineering environmental issues environmental pollution As the debate on aircraft noise affecting people staying close to airports gathers momentum in India, Dr M. L. Munjal, Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and head of the National Committee on Noise Pollution Control, outlines the various issues …
Severe Space Crunch Stops Cluster Buses In Their Tracks New Delhi: The muchhyped bus cluster scheme of Delhi government, it seems, is in a limbo. Months after the first cluster was launched in south Delhi, with promises of getting all 17 clusters up and running
In order to increase the green cover in Delhi from about 20 per cent at present to the national target of 33 per cent by 2012, the Delhi Government will launch a
Chief minister Sheila Dikshit has urged Delhiites to help plant at least 10 lakh trees in this monsoon season. In a press conference on Monday, the CM said that Delhi
Finally, residents of Patparganj can breathe easy. Twenty-four hours after TOI reported how the township had turned into a virtual garbage dump, MCD was jolted into action. In one sweep, the area was rid of piling filth. And the people won
