Government has identified the 11-km Shastri Park-Trilokpuri sector for the first line

Delhi is likely to get it first monorail by 2017, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said on Tuesday. She said the city needs a transport system that is not only efficient and accessible, but also that will allow people to live in a healthy environment.

The Union Urban Development Ministry has advised States to identify lakes and ponds in urban areas and notify them in municipal land records as “assets”.

They can finally look forward to education, health care and economic empowerment

Left untouched by the Centre’s welfare juggernaut, the denotified, nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes (DNTs) that comprise about 10 per cent of the country’s population can finally look forward to education, health care and economic empowerment among other benefits.

Number of households has risen from 53.69 per cent in 2001 to 78.86 per cent in 2011.

City has potential to generate 2000 MW of power, says Greenpeace

Delhi has the potential to generate 2 Gigawatt, or 2000 MW, of solar power by 2020 to overcome its perennial power shortage. And if Delhi’s territory of 1,483 km is used for solar installations, 123 GW of power can be generated. This is more than 20 times Delhi’s expected peak power demand of 6 GW for 2013 and more than half of India’s installed capacity of 215 GW for 2013.

It is a choked, overflowing and disowned manhole that has emerged as the cause of water contamination that lead to two deaths and scores of people falling ill in South Delhi’s National Council of E

Planning Board alarmed over heavy contamination, poor quality

The groundwater level in South Delhi has plunged to an alarming 66.7 metre at its deepest, the second-worst in the whole of the National Capital Region after Alwar (79.75m). Parts of South-West and West Delhi have also reported the highest salinity levels in the entire region setting alarm bells ringing.

Residents of Charu Khet say they would have been languishing in apathy if not for the deluge

It is a small hamlet of about a dozen households just off the national highway near the Narendra Nagar bypass in Tehri district. And Charu Khet is noticeable only because of a huge mass of stone and concrete that has spilled all over the only road that connects the hamlet to the rest of the district.

It will allow developers to seek all permissions in a time bound manner

Having paved the way for protection of consumers against inordinate delays in the completion of housing projects through the introduction of the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill, 2013, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (HUPA) is now focusing attention on streamlining the process of seeking clearances for the real estate projects.

In the absence of comprehensive plans for traffic movement and decongestion of cities, the Union Urban Development Ministry is looking out for agencies to draw up a comprehensive mobility plan for