The Airports Authority of India will undertake a Rs 30-crore project to solve the waterlogging problem at the city airport.

The project is based on the recommendations of Jadavpur University

In most developing countries wastewater treatment systems have very low coverage or function poorly, resulting in large-scale water pollution and the use of poor-quality water for crop irrigation, especially in the vicinity of urban centres. This can pose significant risks to public health, particularly where crops are eaten raw.

Sri Lanka and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed a USD 100 million loan agreement recently to launch the Greater Colombo Wastewater Management Project.

THE Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) was launched in December 2005 by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in keeping with its Common Minimum Programme. It was a form of reform that urban areas in the country desperately needed before they spiralled into haphazard and over-flowing cities.



The parliamentary standing committee on LGRD ministry yesterday asked Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Autho

This new CPCB study on water consumption and sewage disposal patterns finds that 70% of the total municipal sewage and effluent from over 900 cities and towns are being discharged untreated into rivers, which are a major source of drinking water.

NEW DELHI: Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit inaugurated the Delhi State Spatial Data Infrastructure Project at the Delhi Pavilion in the ongoing India International Trade Fair at Pragati Maidan here on Thursday.

The geo-portal with geo-spatial data of the Capital has been developed by the Information Technology Department of the Delhi Government.

MUMBAI: In a bid to bring about greater transparency in the utilisation of funds allotted for urban development projects, the civic body will video-tape its under construction buildings and post it on its portal. Agencies will soon be appointed for the video-shoots.

The Centrally Empowered Committee (CEC), the forest panel of the Supreme Court, has turned down a Commonwealth Games related proposal of the Public Works Department

BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has made a projection of Rs 4279.4 crore before the Thirteenth Finance Commission (TFC) for the all-round development of urban bodies.

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