Urban Development

The state's overall budget allocation was Rs 1.83 trillion

India and Mauritius on Friday discussed cooperation between the two countries in the area of urban development and to strengthen it further.Union Minister for Housing & Urban Affairs, Hardeep Singh Puri met his Mauritian counterpart Louis Steven Obeegadoo and vowed to strengthen cooperation between the two countries."Received the Deputy PM and Minister Housing & Land Use Planning of Mauritius HE Louis Steven Obeegadoo in my office today. We discussed the ongoing cooperation between our two countries in the area of urban development & strengthening it further," tweeted Puri.India-Mauritius relationship is very significant for India's geostrategic policies in the Indian Ocean Region.Recently, India and Mauritius jointly inaugurated an India-assisted social housing units project in Mauritius virtually as part of India's development support.In recent years, India has stepped up its engagement with Africa. Mauritius is an important partner among the Indian Ocean littoral .

The emphasis on making urban areas liveable and sustainable for its people is what should guide our understanding of urbanisation in today's world

Work done for State Urban Development Agency under the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) and Mission Nirmal Bangla would not be exempt from GST, according to the state Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR)

A governance ambiguity widens the gaps between the core of a city and peri-urban areas, resulting in a highly scattered and unorganised urbanisation

The finance ministry on Wednesday released Rs 1,764 crore grant to four states. The states to which grants were released are Andhra Pradesh (Rs 136 crore), Chhattisgarh (Rs 109 crore), Maharashtra (Rs 799 crore) and Uttar Pradesh (Rs 720 crore). "The Department of Expenditure today released an amount of Rs 1,764 crore to 4 states for providing grants to million plus cities/urban agglomerations," the ministry said in a statement. The grants released are meant for Million Plus Cities/ Urban Agglomerations (MPC/UAs) of Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh; Durg Bhilainagar and Raipur in Chhattisgarh; Aurangabad, Greater Mumbai, Nagpur, Nashik, Pune and Vasai-Virar City in Maharashtra. It is also meant for Agra, Allahabad, Ghaziabad, Kanpur, Lucknow, Meerut and Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. The 15th Finance Commission in its report for the period from 2021-22 to 2025-26 has divided the urban local bodies into two categories: (a) Million-Plus urban agglomerations/cities (excludi

The logic of developing a city should be to foster ease of living for its people and not profits for its developers

The project will build and upgrade 48 kilometres of new or existing stormwater drainage and construct 23 km of climate-resilient urban roads

The finance ministry on Wednesday reviewed the progress of capital expenditure (Capex)

Delhi has been awarded for the 1.4-km long corridor in the congested Chandani Chowk

Municipal bonds can help push local development

What the extended lockdown has brought into harsh view are the precarious levels of urban existence

Daswatte tells it is time to radically rethink zoning laws and heighten protection for water bodies to save our cities

The capital has an edge over Mumbai with its new expressways. Mumbai's shape doesn't lend itself to inter-city expressways

In 2016-17, Rs 400 cr was distributed for those who pursued reforms