Urban Infrastructure

The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) has approved the setting up of a new sewage treatment plant (STP) at Okhla under the Yamuna Action Plan Phase III. The STP has a treatment capacity of 125 million […]

The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) has achieved international standards for clean drinking water and the residents of the city will be able to consume water directly from taps. According to the MCGM, an […]

The National Mission for Clean Ganga signed a concession agreement with VA Tech Wabag Limited for the construction of STPs at Howrah, Bally, Baranagar and Kamarhati in West Bengal on June 5, 2019. The scope […]

The Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB) has granted approval for the implementation of four drinking water projects in the state at an estimated cost of Rs 8 billion. The new projects are the Kuttanad […]

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) signed an agreement with the central government to provide loans worth Rs 23 billion for the 13.92 km Dairy Circle-Nagawara underground section of Reach 6 of the Bengaluru metro, […]

The Greater Noida Industrial Authority (GNIDA) has approved the Noida Sector 142-Botanical Garden Metro rail project. The project involves the development of a 14 km long metro rail network at an investment of Rs 15 […]

The Tamil Nadu government is planning to introduce 500 electric buses in the cities of Chennai, Madurai and Coimbatore. The introduction of these buses will be part of the first phase of a government initiative […]

The Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) has introduced a new initiative to collect and segregate plastic waste directly from households. A private agency will be deployed to collect the waste from the residents and an arrangement […]

The Vastral-Apparel Park stretch of the Ahmedabad metro rail project has commenced commercial operations. The 6.5 km stretch is a part of the North-South corridor of Phase 1 (41 km) of the project. The total […]

Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) has installed 428 kW peak solar power plants on roofs of two elevated stations – Nanganallur Road and Meenambakkam – to promote the use of green energy. The solar plants, […]

The 10 km stretch of the Hyderabad metro rail between Ameerpet and Hi-Tec City was inaugurated on March 20, 2019. With this, the Hyderabad metro has become operational on 56 km of its planned 72 […]

The construction work of the Ranchi Water Supply Scheme [WSS] Augmentation Project, Phase I, has commenced. Larsen & Toubro (L&T) is implementing the project in Jharkhand under the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation. […]

The executive committee of the National Mission for Clean Ganga has approved the Lucknow Sewerage (Interception & Diversion and Sewage Treatment Plant) Project in Uttar Pradesh. The project involves development of sewage treatment plants (STPs) […]

The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) has set up a data acquisition centre, for master supervisory control and data acquisition, for flow meters to enable real-time monitoring of over 3,000 strategic distribution nodes. DJB’s water supply […]

The Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (CMWSSB) has proposed the setting up of tertiary treatment plants of 260 million litre per day (mld) capacity in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The project involves construction of […]

The foundation stone for the Thanjavur Water Supply Distribution Project and the Thanjavur Underground Sewerage Project was laid on February 23, 2019. The water supply distribution system for the municipal corporation is being implemented in […]

The Pune Municipal Corporation has saved about 100 mld of treated water by laying a pipeline from the Parvati water works to the Cantonment water works. The pipeline became operational in December 2018 and so […]

The Odisha government inaugurated the Improvement of Water Supply to Greater Berhampur Project (Janibili Water Supply Project) on March 3, 2019. The project was awarded to Larsen & Toubro and involved drawing water from the […]

The foundation stone for the Agra metro rail project was laid on March 8, 2019. The project involves the development of a 30 km long metro rail system in the city at an investment of […]

The Dilshad Garden-Ghaziabad metro rail project (Delhi Metro, Line 1 Extension) was inaugurated on March 8, 2019. The project involved the development of a 9.63 km metro rail network extension from Dilshad Garden in East […]