Ahmedabad : Imagine all the people living sustainably. Imagine no global warming and sufficient water. If John Lennon's dream song had included green buildings, he would be turning in his grave to know Ahmedabad has only one.
AHMEDABAD: Over the last three years, Ahmedabad has seen a spurt in influx of scholars from foreign universities taking deep interest in its urban morphology, its origin and its organic growth in the 21st century. What has interested these scholars the most is the heritage of walled city and how it fits even in modern settings of a city.
Beginning Friday, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation will supply water for an additional half an hour from 5.30 pm onwards. A circular was issued on Thursday in this regard after the Gujarat election commission gave a go ahead for the supply.
AMC convinced the state election officer that the half hour supply was a yearly routine during peak summers. The evening supply would be on till June 15.
Ahmedabad companies found selling contaminated drinking water bottled water in Ahmedabad may not be safe. The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has found faecal bacteria in samples of water from three bottling plants last month. No action has been taken against the erring firms yet. The corporation carried out tests on 23 water samples collected from these plants and found three were
Ahmedabad: Appreciating the heritage awareness programme undertaken by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), especially among children, National Mission on Monuments and Antiquities (NMMA) has approached it to devise a capsule programme that could help heritage cities across the country emulate this concept.
AHMEDABAD: For close to a decade, Isanpur was given stepmotherly treatment by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) with leaking drainage lines posing a serious health hazard in the area.
AHMEDABAD: CEPT University's centre of excellence in urban transport will be offering two masters programmes, certification in special areas based on industry needs, to begin with.
Also, training and doctoral research programmes will be conducted, agenda of which would be structured around National Urban Transport Policy (NUTP).
AHMEDABAD : This year Amdavadis will reap fruits of their taxes after a long wait of suffering traffic jams caused by relentless digging for development projects on city roads.
