NURM is aimed at overhauling infrastructure facilities of the cities, especially the old ones.
Rs 1000 cr has been allotted for Mumbai from National Urban Renewal Mission funds for which an allocation has been made in the Union Budget.
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The fiery activist, who is crusading against demolition of slums in Mumbai, entered the conference hall at a hotel in south Mumbai when Chidambaram was about to leave to catch a flight to Delhi after delivering a speech on urban renewal.
"We all know these problems. We will sit together and work to solve them," he said.
'Why do politicians ask for votes if they cannot rehabilitate us? Where do we go -- to the footpath?'
100 smart cities to become a reality as Cabinet approves the project, earmarks Rs 100 trillion for the purpose.
The announcement declaring New Delhi Municipal Council a winner of the smart city challenge came when the rest of Delhi was drowning in urban waste.
Carson is also the first former presidential aspirant to be tapped by Trump in his Cabinet.
SmartCity project is in advanced stage.
Enters joint venture with Pune-based Unique Delta Force Security
A parliamentary panel has noted that Yamuna river seems "dirtier" than before despite Rs 6,500 crore having been spent on its clean-up even as a project to lay interceptor sewers along the three major drains of Delhi suffers delays.
Modi pitched for revamping urban governance while linking it to the 'Digital India' mission and 'Swachh Bharat' campaign.
The government will give a final shape to its proposed flagship scheme on developing '100 smart cities' next month.
It said 33,510 slums were estimated to be in the urban areas of the country of which 41 per cent were notified.
The government is currently holding consultations with all stakeholders including state governments, local bodies and those keen on developing smart cities.
The government's vision of "housing for all by 2022" may turn out to be an uphill task with developers keeping off low-cost housing projects citing regulatory hurdles, high land cost and low returns making such projects "unaffordable".
20 new industrial clusters will be developed in 2014-15.
There are some 20-odd schemes with this default provision, or something close to it.
None of the political parties in UP has any effective plans to create jobs.
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Chairman Anand Mahindra spoke to Business Standard on affordable housing.
Right now the challenge before the government is to double the speed of construction in order to complete the remaining 6.6 million houses before March 2019.
Modi, in an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal, wrote that the US and India are forging a deeper and stronger partnership that extends far beyond the Beltway and the Raisina Hill.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday registered eight more preliminary enquiries in connection with issues related to intercepted phone calls of lobbyist Niira Radia against former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda, Reliance Industries Limited and others in separate cases.
However, independent economists are not as gung-ho as the finance ministry over the likelihood of deficit target being met this time around, says Indivjal Dhasmana.
The government has made its initial moves, good and not-so-good, while the roll-out in some cases has been slow.
The Gomti Riverfront Development project, the Agra-Lucknow Expressway, the Jai Prakash Narayan International Centre and the efforts towards the beautification of Old Lucknow are some of Akhilesh Yadav's initiatives that are the subject of investigation.
Few in India know that Elvis & Namrata won at the World Salsa Summit in Miami!
Given the better growth in JLR sales and improving domestic sales, nearly 90 per cent of the analysts covering the stock have a 'Buy' rating.
In 2014-15, capital expenditure in the April-September period was Rs 99,100 crore.
'There is no difference morally between politicians scoring points amid the rubble and non-politicians who assume that politics and corruption necessarily had something to do with it,' says Mihir S Sharma. 'Both are twisting a tragedy to their own ends.'
The challenges authorities face in cleaning Ganga and other holy rivers in Varanasi.
The most efficient utility for our smart cities will be about smart design.
Smart cities must be very well equipped with technology and security systems alike.
Sensex hit a record high of 27,225.85 and Nifty hit a record high of 8,141.90 in the intra-day trades today.
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