Urban India’s parking woes: an overview
Vehicular congestion and insufficient parking facilities are significant emerging challenges for India’s mega and metropolitan cities, severely impairing mobility. Although curtailed by constitutional
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Pols apart no more
AHMEDABAD: Over the last three years, Ahmedabad has seen a spurt in influx of scholars from foreign universities taking deep interest in its urban morphology, its origin and its organic growth in the 21st century. What has interested these scholars the most is the heritage of walled city and how it fits even in modern settings of a city.
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Get ready for a green ride
Imagine travelling along BRTS stretch under a canopy of mangoes & chikooS Paul John TNN
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Additional time for water supply
Beginning Friday, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation will supply water for an additional half an hour from 5.30 pm onwards. A circular was issued on Thursday in this regard after the Gujarat election commission gave a go ahead for the supply. AMC convinced the state election officer that the half hour supply was a yearly routine during peak summers. The evening supply would be on till June 15.
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E coli in a bottle
Ahmedabad companies found selling contaminated drinking water bottled water in Ahmedabad may not be safe. The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has found faecal bacteria in samples of water from three bottling plants last month. No action has been taken against the erring firms yet. The corporation carried out tests on 23 water samples collected from these plants and found three were
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AMC to help NMMA improve heritage awareness
Ahmedabad: Appreciating the heritage awareness programme undertaken by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), especially among children, National Mission on Monuments and Antiquities (NMMA) has approached it to devise a capsule programme that could help heritage cities across the country emulate this concept.
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AMC wakes up to drainage crisis
AHMEDABAD: For close to a decade, Isanpur was given stepmotherly treatment by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) with leaking drainage lines posing a serious health hazard in the area.
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CEPT to launch transport courses
AHMEDABAD: CEPT University's centre of excellence in urban transport will be offering two masters programmes, certification in special areas based on industry needs, to begin with. Also, training and doctoral research programmes will be conducted, agenda of which would be structured around National Urban Transport Policy (NUTP).
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BRTS set to hit the road next month
AHMEDABAD : This year Amdavadis will reap fruits of their taxes after a long wait of suffering traffic jams caused by relentless digging for development projects on city roads.
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Nano fuelling dream, not traffic jams
Nano may help decongest roads
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AMC plans tree census using GPS
Ahmedabad : Civic body is likely to take up a tree census for city with help of a Mumbai-based firm Terracon Ecotech. Census is one-of-its-kind in the country, based on modern methods using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Global Positioning System (GPS) system.