India's cities face an Rs 11.5 lakh crore capital expenditure requirement between FY27 and FY31, but only 223 of the country's 4,332 urban local bodies (ULBs) currently have credit ratings, locking most…
The Government of India and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have signed a $230 million loan agreement to upgrade Chennai's water supply and sanitation infrastructure. The project aims to improve access to…
India began evaluating the climate readiness of its cities in 2019, conducting three phases of assessment that showed national readiness stuck at a low 30 to 34 percent. Despite this promising start,…
The National Green Tribunal on August 17 took suo motu cognisance of a media report that 28 drains are discharging untreated sewage into Bhopal's Lower Lake. The NGT formed a new committee…
Indian cities are flooding because of concentrated rainfall and poor drainage, not just total rainfall, according to Deccan Herald. Even with the IMD forecasting a below-normal 2026 monsoon due to El Nino,…
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has started work to fully restore Naini Lake in Model Town under a Rs 9.7 crore project funded by the AMRUT scheme. A four-km pipeline from the…
Mangaluru City Corporation has proposed a Rs 1,250 crore comprehensive overhaul of its underground drainage system, which includes 216 km of network over 50 years old. About 35% of the city still…
The Delhi government has approved water management and sewage treatment projects worth more than Rs 1,000 crore, Millennium Post reports. The plan includes 12 decentralised sewage treatment plants in the Najafgarh region…
