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The public hearing for Navi Mumbai International Airport was conducted by Maharashtra State Pollution Control Board on 5th May, 2010 at Anant Pandurang Bhoir Vidyalaya of Public Consultation. Proceedings was made available to CIDCO Ltd., to prepare the final EIA study report by incorporating points of environmental concern received during the public consultation.

LUCKNOW: Come September and each honk in the city would register itself at the national level. With MoEF keeping its date with the ambitious `national ambient noise monitoring network' project, there are hardly any chances that city's high decibels will be missed. UPPCB has started "procuring equipment" to set up the network stations.

Prakash Kamat

The Goa Chief Minister, Mr Digambar Kamat, on Tuesday sought the intervention of the Centre in resolving the imbroglio between the State Government and the south Goa-based major port Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) over the latter's development and infrastructure expansion projects.

Mumbai: Realising the importance of environmental balance, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI).

Swarleen Kaur

Chandigarh: Saada pind saadi virasat

KPMG

The district administration on Thursday resolved to take up development work worth Rs 20.37 cr under Karnataka Municipalities Reformation Programme.

The proposed project would be funded by World Bank and Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Development Corporation and is aimed to the integrated development of the City.

Expressing solidarity with Carmona villagers in their battle against the Raheja project, village groups from across Goa warned the political class not to push mega housing projects against the will of the people without taking the infrastructural requirements into considerations.

This study, based on a large dataset of 894 projects from 17 infrastructure sectors, attempts to answer certain important questions on time and cost overruns in publicly-funded infrastructure projects: How common and how large are the overruns? What are the essential causes? Are contractual and institutional failures among the significant causes?

The latest Cooum river restoration project in Chennai aims to focus on slum eviction as an achievable first step. A 19-kilometre elevated expressway on the river is also planned.

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