Pune The Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Ltd (PMPML) Board has opted for a private-public partnership (PPP) to buy 650 buses, including 200 AC coaches, under the JNNURM scheme. The project is worth Rs 400 crore.

As many as 100 will be Volvo buses run on diesel and the rest will be CNG-run. The private players will decide the AC bus fares, which will be 1.25 to 2.5 times the regular fare.

New Delhi: With a number of projects in the pipeline that will upgrade the city

Chennai Corporation holding department-wise review meetings to speed up works

SET FOR start: Work on construction of a canal to link the Veerangal Odai with the Pallikaranai Marsh will soon be taken up.

Kakoly Chatterjee

New Delhi: The Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) is going to get fresh fund infusion of around $5 billion from the World Bank.

RASHME SEHGAL, NEW DELHI
If the turnaround in the Congress fortunes in rural India has been attributed to NREGA, then the clean sweep of the Congress and its allies in the metros, including Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Chennai, has been laid at the door of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).

Deepa H Ramakrishnan

CHENNAI: With drinking water being supplied only once in five days, almost every container in homes in Tiruvottiyur is used to store water. Residents say that in the past one month the period of supply has been drastically reduced by half.

K. Lakshmi

CHENNAI: The 30-km pipeline from the upcoming 100 million litres a day desalination plant near Minjur to Red Hills has been laid by the Chennai Metrowater recently. However, a portion of construction work of the plant is yet to be completed.

K. Lakshmi

CHENNAI: The long-pending problem of garbage clearance in Avadi municipality may be resolved soon with the detailed project report for integrated solid waste management to be submitted by this month-end.

To provide better public transport services for citizens, the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) has identified 45 Traffic and Transit Management Centres (TTMCs) in and around the City.

This was announced by Transport Minister R Ashok after inspecting the Transit Terminus at Shantinagar here on Friday.

KOLKATA, May 14: Agencies working on various projects funded by the Jawahar Lal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) have sought the intervention of the chief minister Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, asking him to initiate steps against persons causing trouble at construction sites, leading to delay in work.