With an aim to improve the quality of living in India’s urban areas, the prime minister Narendra Modi-led government at the centre launched the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) in its … READ FULL STORY
The first budget of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government, presented in the assembly on March 6, 2020, seeks to provide a fillip to infrastructure development in the state, by proposing an outlay of … READ FULL STORY
Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on December 7, 2019, inaugurated Gurgaon’s ambitious Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC), developed as the nerve centre to provide multifaceted online smart services to people. Khattar inaugurated … READ FULL STORY
A total of 1,159 parks have been developed across the country under the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) scheme, an official said, on August 25, 2019. He said the components of … READ FULL STORY
The Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry’s budgetary provisions were pegged at Rs 48,000 crores in the Union Budget 2019-20, a hike of nearly 12% from 2018-19. The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban), an ambitious … READ FULL STORY
A parliamentary panel has observed that the Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry, is giving the ‘usual excuse of procedural delays’ in accounting for spent funds, in case of the government’s prestigious flagship programmes, but … READ FULL STORY
The process of carving out a separate municipal council, comprising 27 villages currently under the Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC), is in the final stages, Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis informed the state legislative … READ FULL STORY
A total of 163 million people in India have no access to clean water close to home, or 15 per cent of all rural residents and seven per cent of all urban residents, says … READ FULL STORY
Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar, on April 5, 2018, announced increasing the financial limit for according administrative approval, for estimates of developmental works in urban local bodies in the state. According to an … READ FULL STORY
The Andhra Pradesh government has been adopting a focused approach, to fill the widening gaps in infrastructure across the state and to meet the challenges posed by a fast-expanding urban geography and demography, said … READ FULL STORY
Pune, with a score of 5.1, has been ranked first, when it comes to local governance, followed by Kolkata, Thiruvananthapuram, Bhubaneswar and Surat, according to the Annual Survey of India’s City-System (ASICS) undertaken for … READ FULL STORY
The standing committee on urban development, in its report on demand for grants for 2018-19 tabled in the parliament on March 9, 2018, said it was concerned to find that the actual utilisation of … READ FULL STORY
With maximum increase in allocation to the Smart Cities Mission, the Housing and Urban Affairs (HUA) ministry’s budgetary provisions have been pegged at over Rs 41,765 crores for the next fiscal, a hike of … READ FULL STORY
