JAIPUR: The urban housing and development (UDH) department is looking into the possibility of increasing the construction area of houses falling under Rajiv Awas Yojana, an affordable housing schem

SHILLONG: The State Government has decided to constitute a separate Water Agency before June next year to overlook the water distribution system in the whole city.

SHILLONG: Commissioning of the Greater Shillong Water Supply Scheme (GSWSS) Phase III is likely to be delayed since only 35 per cent of the work has been completed till date.

The phase III, which is expected to ease the water scarcity problem in Shillong, was earlier scheduled to be commissioned within June 2012.

Officials want plan freed of deadlines because of long gestation periods of many projects

New Delhi: Four of MCD’s ambitious projects, which were funded by the Central government’s Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) scheme in December 2009, to upgrade the city’s in

LUCKNOW: If projections of UP Jal Nigam are anything to go by, then the state capital may have its streets free of callously dumped domestic waste by November when the much-awaited municipal solid

The project, which is expected to increase the drinking water supply to Kochi and neighbouring local bodies, is hanging fire due to the dispute over the route for laying the pipelines. The local bodies of Piravam, Mulanthuruthy and Edakattuvayal had earlier objected to cutting open the main road connecting Piravam and Ernakulam for laying the supply pipelines. They had also suggested an alternative route for laying the pipes. The proposal to cut open the road had also ignited widespread protests.

The country's oldest water supply line, connecting Palta water works with Tallah of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), might have to be closed down to facilitate the metro rail project from Dum