Much more needs to be done to meet the basic needs of the existing urban population, even as one plans for future migrants.

Our cities and towns may still not account for 50 per cent of the population, but they play a major role in economic development, governance and planning.

GUWAHATI: Big cities in our country are dotted with slums and Guwahati is no exception.

The Ministry of Housing and Poverty Allevation has taken up a Basic Services to the Urban Poor (BSUP) scheme and under this scheme the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC), along with the Assam Government, has taken up the Slum Housing Project under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM

GUWAHATI: The Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY), under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, has been launched for slum dwellers and the urban poor on the lines of the Indira Awas Yojana for the rural poor. RAY is a right-based, reform-driven programme under the Jawaharlal National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).

In the first phase, they would be shifted to Bawana: Sheila
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Wednesday said about 6,000 families living in 33 jhuggi clusters would soon be rehabilitated by the Delhi Government.

Work on the Delhi Jal Board's ambitious interceptor sewer system that is aimed at preventing untreated sewage from the city's drains from falling into the Yamuna is likely to start by the end of August.

Thiruvananthapuram: The Union government has sanctioned an additional Rs.10.45 crore for improving water supply in the capital city under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).

In a letter to Shashi Tharoor, MP, Union Minister for Urban Development Kamal Nath said that he had approved the release of the fresh instalment of Additional Central Assistance (ACA) for the ongoi

PC assures over Rs 500 cr under CSS
State to get development monitored through NABCONS
JAMMU: In a significant achievement for Chief Minister Omar Abdullah headed Government, the Planning Commission (PC) today approved the State

Of 650 extant two decades ago, only a fraction remains; water shortages, flooding a direct consequence
CHENNAI: About two decades ago, a research project by the Centre for Environmental and Water Resource Engineering, IIT Madras estimated that about 650 waterbodies existed in the Chennai region.

More than half of them were located south of River Adyar.

New Delhi: Ten projects, worth over Rs 800 crore, sanctioned by the Centre in 2008 under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission are yet to take off. These projects are to be undertaken by Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD). They include long-pending multi-level parking projects.

KOCHI: To solve the potable water crisis in the city, the State Government has allocated Rs 11 crore for acquiring land for the Maradu Water Treatment Plant project.