The Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM) was launched on 3rd December, 2005 with the objective of reforms driven and fast track development of cities across the country, with focus on bringing about efficiency in urban infrastructure, service delivery mechanisms, community participation and accountability of Urban Local Bodie

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has agreed to sanction Rs 1800 crore to develop key roads in Manipur, including the 110 Km Imphal-Moreh section of National Highway 2.

After a strong warning from UNESCO, concerned government bodies have decided to close the open track from Tilganga passing though the Sleshmantak forest and to redesign the chimney from electric cr

President Mohamed Waheed Hassan has said 66 kilometer roads would be constructed in 10 islands, under the road construction project which was initiated about two years ago.

Karnataka is setting up a Natural Calamities Relief Fund with a corpus of Rs 125 crore to reduce hardships of the people hit by such disasters besides meeting the demands of the affected district

Even as the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is set to appoint a consultant for the Rs 8,000 crore coastal road project, opposition from the local fishing community is intensifying.

President Dr Mohamed Waheed has today inaugurated the road development project of Thaa atoll Vilufushi.

The Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief took a massive communication development programme in the district during the current fiscal year, reports BSS.

Contesting the Indian City features a collection of cutting-edge empirical studies that offer insights into issues of politics, equity, and space relating to urban development in modern India. Features studies that serve to deepen our theoretical understandings of the changes that Indian cities are experiencing. Examines how urban redevelopment policy and planning, and reforms of urban politics and real estate markets, are shaping urban spatial change in India

This executive summary provides an overview of methodologies and findings of vulnerability assessments undertaken in 20 Indian cities as well as recommendations for future actions.

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