The centre plans to build 12 million toilets in rural India, to eradicate open defecation in the country, under its Swachh Bharat Mission. While applicants could approach the local authorities in their area to … READ FULL STORY
Wave Infratech, a real estate company based in north India, has been felicitated by the New Okhla Industrial Development Authority for its contribution towards the Swachh Bharat Mission, by undertaking the waste water treatment … 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
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
Over 89% of urban municipal wards in the country have achieved complete door-to-door collection of solid waste under the Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban), the government said in an RTI reply. The union Housing and … READ FULL STORY
Municipal solid waste (MSW) management is one of the most serious challenges to environment protection and although the Solid Waste Management Rules have been framed in 2016, their implementation remains a problem, a National … 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 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
The government, on January 4, 2018, launched the Swachh Survekshan 2018 – a cleanliness survey which is part of the Swachh Bharat Mission. The survey will rank 500 cities on a national level, which … READ FULL STORY
A Supreme Court bench of justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta, on December 18, 2017, said that the issue pertaining to solid waste management was needed to be looked into with all due … READ FULL STORY
Marking the first anniversary of the announcement of the government’s flagship programme, prime minister Narendra Modi will launch projects on the ‘Smart City Mission’ from Pune’s 5,000-capacity Shiv Chatrapati Sports Complex, on June 25, … READ FULL STORY
