Muktsar: Muktsar residents committing slow suicide by drinking 7-foot-deep water

Everyday, Kotkapura Road residents, Vivek Sharma and his wife Neetu, get a 10-litre can filled from the Water Works office campus, after it closes.

People in slums say possession, past experiences the problem areas KARNATAKA wants people in the state

Extension likely THE Centre may extend the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (jnnurm) beyond 2012, its current deadline. Planned with the objective of better cities and projects for the urban poor, the Rs 50,000 crore mission applies to 63 cities.

SANTOSH K. KIRO

Clean-up act
Ranchi, March 12: Kitchen waste will soon become valuable.

The civic body in the state capital would set up a plant at Bero, some 35km from here, to convert the waste generated from households into compost

Gandhinagar: The Gujarat government has begun to draw up a city development plan (CDP) for Porbander following a Government of India (Gol) nod to include the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi as a Mission City under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JN-NURM).

MUMBAI: The city's civic bus utility is expecting to augment the size of its fleet by 1,000 buses, of which 200 will be air-conditioned, by June.

The Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport Undertaking (BEST) has applied for funds of Rs 300 crore under the Centre's Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) for purchasing the new vehicles.

SANTOSH K. KIRO
Ranchi, March 3: Jharkhand drinking water and sanitation department will jointly work with the Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) to carry out a Rs 288-crore drinking water supply project, sanctioned under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).

Urban renewal mission

India's recent phenomenal prosperity has taken everybody by surprise. The rolling out of ambitious programmes and its right implementation has leapfrogged India into the category of fast developing countries.