District panchayat plans 543 new schemes

The District Planning Committee (DPC) of the Thiruvananthapuram district panchayat has approved projects worth Rs.121.70 crore for 2011-12, district panchayat president Remani P. Nair said here on Wednesday.

The Maharashtra government recently revised town planning norms to boost growth of smaller townships along the borders of major cities and urban hubs.

Amendments have been made in the Maharashtra Regional Town Planning Act, 1966 to facilitate decisions that would help set up such cluster townships.

Senior officials said a similar amendment had been made by the Gujarat government in 1999 and

State issues notices to 1,500 building owners
Hamirpur: After the state government

VIDS suggests formation of consortium of social entrepreneurs
Call for launching District Greening Movement with support of environmentalists
Mobile traffic patrol system suggested to regulate the traffic flow on roads
VELLORE: The Vellore Institute of Development Studies (VIDS) has urged the Collector of Vellore district S.

Ban on plastic products below 30 microns from May 15
District panchayat to set up 3 shredding units
Grama panchayats to get funds for the purpose
Kozhikode: Efforts to get rid of plastic waste in the district are gaining momentum with the district panchayat asking local bodies to set up plastic shredding units in grama panchayats.

The District Planning Committee will assess the progress of w

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The high level monitoring committee (HLMC) appointed by the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) to monitor the twin hill station eco-sensitive zone (ESZ) of Panchgani and Mahabaleshwar, has no funds to call their own.

Chairman of HLMC, Devrath Mehta, expressed his frustration to DNA in an interview on Wednesday evening in Mahabaleshwar and said that this deficiency greatly hampered work.

The effective use of land resources for urbanisation, efficient management and for green buildings will be discussed by a conglomeration of town planners, architects, educationists and policy makers, during a three-day National Town and Country Planners

Facing high litigation and severe indictment from the Punjab and Haryana High Court over its controversial policy of releasing land under acquisition to private developers, Haryana has finally tweaked the policy.