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Over the last decade, governments around the world pursued policies to involve the private sector in the delivery and financing of infrastructure services. The scale of this move away from the hitherto dominant public sector model was far more rapid than had been anticipated at the start of the 1990s.

This paper presents and discusses primary data from a survey of 1,070 households in four poor settlements in Mumbai comprising slum-and pavement-dwellers and squatters on the living environment and health conditions. The study attempts to examine the consequences of socio-economic and environmental factors in terms of income, literacy, sanitation and hygiene for morbidity.

The Urban Development Ministry unveiled guidelines for Masterplan 2021, which will come into force either in December or early next year. The guidelines spell out sweeping changes for the city,

In what has been described as a major breakthrough by the Mufti Muhammad government, the Indian Banks' Association has decided to provide Jammu and Kashmir with a loan of Rs 1,000 crores on easy

The progressive farmers of Kandi belt of Jammu division especially of Nagrota and surrounding villages have been asked to preserve rain water in different water bodies to use it for their ensuring

It has hardly been two months since Rajiv Gandhi Setu was inaugurated with much fanfare by the Delhi Government in the presence of the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi. Two of the roads leading to

The North-east is a paradoxical situation. On one hand you relate the region to beautiful natural vegetation surrounded by three mountain ridges, with the Brahamputra cutting across on one side. On

The Jammu and Kashmir government has decided to review the 600 mw Sawalkot hydroelectric project following an over 100 per cent escalation in the estimated cost of the

The World Bank, "the apostle of privatisation," is now having "a crisis of faith" seeing the results of privatisation of water and electric utilities in developing countries, a media report

An Australian astronomer claimed to have completed the most accurate calculation ever of how many stars shine in the visible universe

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