MUMBAI: The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) is set to become the nodal agency for executing work of the Mumbai metro project in the city as part of the financial restructuring being initiated by the state government for infrastructure projects.

The MMRC, part of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), was formed in 2009.

The government is contemplating an overhaul of urban planning and infrastructure in two of its biggest city regions-Dhaka and Khulna-where services have struggled to keep up with booming population

Chief minister of Haryana, Bhupinder Singh Hooda on master plan 2021

Frank Lloyd Wright, the American architect, once said that to look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of fibrous tumour. It is probably an apt description of how India

The most enduring challenge facing the world today is providing goods and services for a reasonably meaningful existence of its 6.7 billion citizens in a manner which is both sustainable and equitable.

India being home to 17% of this population on a little over 2% of its global landmass has a disproportionate share of these challenges.

Increasing environmental concerns, depleting natural res

Forcible acquisition of land for setting up of township at Rajarhat alleged

KOLKATA: Three years after Nandigram and two years after Singur, the theatre of political combat over land in West Bengal has shifted to Rajarhat on the northeastern fringe of Kolkata, where the Trinamool Congress braces itself for a fresh movement against what it alleges is forcible and dubious acquisition of land for

Keeping in view the possible capital investment on a massive scale in industrial sector in the next few years, the State Government have launched the work of infrastructure development of international level in Madhya Pradesh. For this, new industrial growth centres are proposed to be set up in eight districts of the state.

EVER-increasing demand for skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled workers in urban areas, availability of basic amenities, societal behaviour change for urban life, high paid jobs in IT, manufacturing and service sector trigger largescale migration of people to urban centers. As per the 2001 Census, 42.58 million Indians live in nearly 3,700 urban centres in comparison to 60 million Indians in 1947.

For the first time, Naxal groups are showing a presence in Rajarhat, Newtown, in what the state government fears is a bid to replicate the Singur-Nandigram model of agitation.

The development coincides with the Trinamool Congress