Air Pollution

 IN COURT

J&K project through: The Jammu and Kashmir High Court recently granted a stay on a decision by the state government to cancel a contract for the 1,200-MW Sawalakote hydroelectric power project. The

Publication Date: 
30/12/2006
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Pollution, Global Warming, Hydroelectricity, Urban Habitat, Urbanisation, Urban Development, Green Spaces, Legislation, High Court, United States Of America (US), California, Jammu & Kashmir, Doda (D)
Industry

 Urban growth model needs reality check

Urban India is beginning to explode. The question is if our cities will be able to manage this growth or will they just burst at the seams? The reason I ask this is because we still don t have a clue

Publication Date: 
14/10/2006
Sunita Narain
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Water Conservation, Urban Water Supply, Urban Habitat, Urbanisation, Urban Development, Urban Decay, Slums, Urban Transport, Urban Sanitation, Poverty, Industry, India
Industry

 Hyderabad blues

Hyderabad has submitted a wish list worth Rs 20,017 crore to MoUD, under JNNURM. The ministry's central sanctioning and monitoring committee has approved Rs 379 crore and released Rs 33.22 crore as the first instalment.

Publication Date: 
30/08/2006
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Krishna, Urban Development, Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), Water Supply, Sewage, Hyderabad (T)
Sanitation

 Managing wastes

The MEF draws up an ambitious plan for the management of municipal solid wastes

Publication Date: 
14/09/1999
Down to Earth
Tags:
Urban Development, Sanitation, Waste Disposal, Legislation, Government Of India (GOI)
Health

 Stalking plague

it is heartening to note that in the present decade, the intellectuals and academicians of the nation are not pontificating and publishing in just the realm of abstract theory but are directly

Publication Date: 
14/12/1997
Sharmila Chandra
Down to Earth
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Health, Urban Development, Plague, Surat (D)
India

 Ladies of the lake

ON NOVEMBER 7, residents of Vivekanandapally in Calcutta staved off yet another attempt by a group of real estate developers, which has been trying to fill up a shallow 0.134 hectare lake in the area

Publication Date: 
14/12/1993
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment, Urban Development, Women, Legislation, India
Sanitation

 Megacities get a Central boost

Metropolitan municipalities can now heave a collective sigh of relief. The Centrally-sponsored scheme for infrastructural development of megacities has brought them a welcome respite, burdened as

Publication Date: 
14/11/1993
Down to Earth
Tags:
Urbanisation, Urban Development, Sanitation, Hyderabad (D), Bangalore (D), Mumbai, Chennai (D), Calcutta (D)

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