Counter affidavit on behalf of Chief Municipal Engineer, Patna Nagar Nigam in the matter of Saurav Narayan Vs Bihar Pollution Control Board & Others dated May 20, 2025. The report said that the corporation has been diligently performing its statutory duties within the limitations of the available resources and infrastructure. …
India’s urban transition, a once in history phenomenon, has the potential to shift the country’s social, environmental, political, and economic trajectory. It may exacerbate inequalities, create new opportunities, or all of the above. A report titled Urban India 2011: Evidence seeks to contribute to building a strong and inclusive knowledge …
The publication 'Benchmarking Urban Services - 2010-2011', presents the service level data of 1400 municipalities in India for the core urban services of water supply, sewerage/sanitation, solid waste management and storm water drainage. The process of service level benchmarking (SLB) to ensure performance based accountability and optimal use of infrastructure …
All cities and towns in Odisha become totally clean, sanitized, healthy, liveable, ensuring and sustaining good public health and environmental outcomes for all citizens, with a special focus on hygienic and affordable sanitation for the urban poor and women; in line with the National Urban Sanitation Policy. The overall goal …
The provision of sanitation services in low-income urban areas is one of the greatest challenges in development. Population growth in developing countries currently outpaces sanitation growth, especially in urban areas. Consequently, in urban areas where poor people reside, and where "formal" sanitation services are not available to them, they experience …
While Indian cities have grown manifold in the past several decades, and there is expectation that the pace of urbanization would accelerate in the future, problems of water supply, sewage disposal, municipal wastes, power supply, open landscaped spaces, air pollution, and public transport, have assumed stark proportions in many urban …
The Working Group on Urban and Industrial Water Supply and Sanitation has met to deliberate on the critical challenges of this sector and in particular it has explored best practices to suggest the way ahead. This report focuses on one aspect of its task – urban water and sanitation.
The Master Plan largely focuses to Open Defecation Free (ODF) with universal access to toilet in both the urban and rural context through the total sanitation approach. It has recognized the improved toilet facilities as defined by the Joint Program Monitoring (JMP) Report of UNICEF and WHO. Apart from ODF …
This draft report on city sanitation plan provides an insight on the present sanitation practices/situation in the city, sanitation deficiencies and further provides a detailed planning for city wide sanitation for attaining the goal of open defecation free city. A structured sample survey was conducted throughout the city on various …
Because of a GIS work, Culver City, California has up-to-date printed citywide sewer GIS map book and online sewer access system to share data with public.
CHENNAI: Expediting her efforts to see a litter-free State capital very soon, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday set a three-month deadline for cleaning up the entire Chennai and its suburban areas. Making a suo motu statement in the State Assembly, the Chief Minister said a ‘Mass Cleaning Programme’ would …
This review of people's perspectives on sanitation from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka consists of reflections on why interventions and projects in their settlements had succeeded or failed. The first South Asia Conference on Sanitation (SACOSAN) in Dhaka in 2003 gave a call for ‘people-centred, community-led, gender-sensitive and …
Hidden behind city branding exercises through large projects are acts of land capture and slum demolitions by a predatory local state and crony capitalism. In the policy arena, meanwhile, the urban, and particularly the metropolitan story has been one of deliberate confusion, and fragmentation of policy and implementation. The promise …
While the outcomes of the Lok Sabha and the state assembly elections have been well documented and analysed, little is known about the electoral geography in urban areas. In discussing the conflicting interests of local politics and urban development, this article places the definition and understanding of what is “urban” …
GUWAHATI: The Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) will soon start a demand drive orientation programme to remove the low cost sanitary unit. Talking to The Sentinel, GMC additional commissioner S Thiek said,
To improve the sanitation services in the city, Leader of the House in the MCD, Subhash Arya, on Tuesday informed that an allocation of Rs 27.20 crore has been made for improvement of sanitation services this year. He said the drive will continue upto June 19 and the funds will …
In Maharashtra, ADB supported the Department of Urban Development and Water Supply and Sanitation to develop possible PPP structures in the water supply and sanitation sector. After studying possible PPP structures, their applicability in the context of selected sample cities were assessed leading to the development of proposed term sheets, …
With only 0.05% of the total area of the country, Delhi is home to 1.34% of India's population. This creates enormous pressure on natural and man-made resources, and generates situations in which non-health determinants may take precedence over the conventional determinants directly associated with health and health care.
This report examines how the public-private partnership (PPP) model can be applied to help promote sustainable housing and urban development for countries around the world. The report has two main parts. First, it identifies key opportunities and challenges faced by PPPs in general, and provides PPP best practices and guiding …
This compendium published by Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI) and CISCO presents selective cases on the use of ICT for effective urban governance and service delivery in India.
