Mumbai, July 24 Mumbai's satellite city Thane is seeking an overhaul with a Rs 8,385 crore

Works relate to power, land, irrigation and flood control

Rs.126.18 crore project sanctioned to meet power requirements of West Delhi and provide power to DMRC

PWD to undertake project to build road over-bridge, under-bridge at railway level crossing near Nand Nagri

NEW DELHI: The Expenditure Finance Committee of the Delhi Government has given its nod to seven new projects amounting to Rs.347 crore. Four projects relate to the Public Works Department and one each to power, land and building and irrigation and flood control departments.

The APTDC is making efforts to encourage the large chunk of pilgrims bound for Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam from Tamil Nadu to explore the other scenic locations in the state.
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SABYASACHI Ghosh, director, Andhra Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation (APTDC), during an interaction on the AP tourism roadshow here on Saturday, came out with a suggestion for a speciality southern quadrilateral similar to the golden triangle in the northern India.
He said the four southern states are well connected and accessible.

Indian policymakers are fascinated by Shanghai and they seek to develop Mumbai into another Shanghai. This vision is based entirely on the fascination with the Shanghai/Pudong skyline, without any substantive understanding of or facts about the growth in the Chinese city. True, there has been rapid growth in Shanghai, but most of this growth has been to the benefit of corporations (public sector and foreign controlled), little has gone to the city's households. Since the late 1990s, the poor of Shanghai have in fact seen a relative decline in incomes vis-

Visakhapatnam July 17: The district collector, Mr Sanjay Kumar, told the officials to speed up the land acquisition procedures for various projects that are being coming up in the city.

For small-town India to become big, it will have to boast that it doesn't want to be another Shanghai.

"Indiscriminate multi-storeyed buildings will make city unlivable'

CHENNAI: The State government must take measures to approve the long-pending draft Second Chennai Master Plan and the development control rules without any further delay, said representatives of Citizens Alliance for Sustainable Living (SUSTAIN), a voluntary organisation.

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Poor roads, illegal water connections, delayed projects hinder growth

SHADOW OF WATERBODY: Many waterbodies in Pallavaram Municipality are in dire need of rejuvenation. A case in point is the Ramasamy Kulam near Pallavaram Railway Station.

TAMBARAM: Pallavaram Municipality presents a unique, contrary picture of massive development works in progress and deteriorating condition of civic amenities.

Pune, July 16 Even as the civic body has been struggling to keep infrastructure work going and has been demanding more funds for Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) projects, it now transpires that PMC is sitting on a nest egg of Rs 765.5 crore that it has salted away in the form of fixed deposits in various banks.

The redevelopment and beautification of the capital for the making of a "world-class city' have entailed a heavy cost in terms of slum demolitions. A survey documenting the change of land use that has taken place on the sites of demolished slum clusters highlights the emerging processes and trends. Some of its findings question the stated principle of the Delhi slum policy, namely, the removal and relocation of squatter settlements only when the land is required to implement projects in the "larger public interest'.

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