In Retrospect. From the marshy and watery wastes to the country's Hi-Tech Happening point, the journey of Nabadiganta is fascinating.
The sprawling 430 acre Sector-V of the Salt Lake City is coming to terms with itself at the start of a new millennium. Unlike many other cities, the expansion of Kolkata has, on account of its location, always posed a serious problem. Hemmed in by the river Hooghly on the west side and by marshes and brackish lakes on the other sides, the city's growth was restricted to its northern and southern suburbs thereby causing a serious problem to its steadily growing population. AT A GLANCE. Planned Urbanisation Around Rajarhat Without Land Acquisition. Decentralized Urban Governance. Participation and Accountability in West Bengal’s Municipalities Abstract One of the major promises of decentralization is that it brings popular participation and accountability to local governance and, therefore, makes local government more responsive to citizens’ desires and more effective in delivering services.
The 74th Constitutional Amendment Act in India provides the much needed platform to operationalize the rhetoric of decentralization into reality. Building for what and whom? New town development as planned suburbanization in China and India. [Jump to content] Your account: Welcome: Guest.
Inside the Transforming Urban Asia: Processes, Policies, and Public Actions. Suburbanization in Global Society. Great cities and their traffic. Abstract: A rapidly growing proportion of the world's population is living in cities with steadily deteriorating transport systems.
Cities - Metropolitan restructuring in post-liberalized India: Separating the global and the local. Volume 24, Issue 2, April 2007, Pages 148–163 Peri-Urban India Special Issue (pp. 89-147) Edited By V.
Dupont This study examines the process of restructuring taking place in metropolitan cities in India. The opening up of the Indian economy since 1991 has brought much change in large cities. Restructuring; global; local; economy; growth; planning. Kolkata Wetlands. 1992: Court proceedings begin with the first writ petition By PUBLIC (People United for Better Living in Calcutta), a Kolkata based NGO and has led to repeated judgments prohibiting changes of land use in the Waste Recycling Region of the wetland area. 1995: PUBLIC had accused leading government officials of contempt of court, A criminal offence, for not having adequately safeguarded the wetlands, particularly with respect to the leather complex and several other minor encroachments. 1995: A report was prepared by the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute that detected that presence of chrome-based tanning among Kolkata tanners, with inappropriate wastewater drainage and collection systems, was causing serious environmental, health and hygiene problems. 1996: Supreme Court order directed these and other inner city tanners from Tiljala, Topsia and Pagla Danga districts to shut shop and relocate to the Bantala Leather Complex, 15 km away from Kolkata.
West Bengal's wetlands under threat. -- (Credit: Pradip Saha / CSE)WEST Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee signed a much-hyped deal with the Salim Group of Indonesia for investments up to Rs 20,000 crore in infrastructure development on July 31.
Billed the "New Kolkata International Development Project," the deal includes expressways, bridges, special economic zones, industrial hubs and health and knowledge cities. One of the deal's components -- a proposed 85-km, four-lane expressway from Barasat, headquarters of North 24-Parganas district, to Raichak in South 24-Parganas -- has Kolkata environmentalists worried. The Eastern Link Highway, as it is to be called, will be connected to the Haldia port by a bridge over the Hooghly river.
Nat_India. Article: Nature strikes back~II. Abstract. An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie. Salt Lake makes futuristic wave, boasts of mini Silicon Valley at Sector V. From sprawling malls to swanky office space to your favourite eatery chain, name it and you have it at Bidhannagar aka Salt Lake.
At present, in its fiftieth year, the auxiliary township planned in the eastern fringes of the city to take load of the core area of the bustling metropolis now is a complete community in itself. It boasts of a mini Silicon Valley at Sector V that generates export revenue worth more than Rs 7,000 crore. Not to forget the sprawling residential area where more than a couple of million people would be having their homes, in the true sense of the word. According to a report published by Cushman and Wakefield, real estate consultants, there have been around 55 office space transactions in Salt Lake covering almost 1.5 million square feet.
Beautification project for Salt Lake, Sec V and New Town. Dobrivoje Tošković vision. Salt Lake blueprint retraced SUDESHNA BANERJEE Bratislav Toskovic (left) with members of the Serbian TV ... Salt Lake blueprint retraced. It was only Bratislav Toskovic’s second visit to Calcutta and his first in more than two decades.
Yet, he could tell the moment his car entered Salt Lake. The giveaway, says the son of the brain behind the township, is the smooth flow of traffic compared with other parts of the city. Armed with a map, Bratislav could easily find his way around Salt Lake. For, helping him was his architect father’s meticulous plan of main roads, lanes, bylanes inside blocks and dead ends. “This also cuts down noise in residential areas,” Bratislav said. Four decades after Dobrivoje Toskovic gave shape to Dr B.C.
Singapore model for Kestopur canal. If Calcutta is poised to be a second London, Salt Lake’s canals will emulate the waterfront of Singapore.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee has announced that the Kestopur Canal, flowing between VIP Road and Salt Lake, will be renovated to resemble Clarke Quay, a popular tourist spot on the Singapore river. “Besides Calcutta proper, the towns on its fringes would be beautified too. Kestopur Canal renovation work and canal side beautification is part of the plan,” chief minister Mamata Banerjee said a fortnight ago. Better half of New Town.
At the mention of New Town, is it the Sector V-end that comes to mind or the VIP Road-end? While both have been developing of their own accord they have their own characteristics and living on either end has its advantages and disadvantages. The Telegraph Salt Lake speaks to residents on the edges of New Town to determine who are better off. Question of connectivity Nataraj Das of Millennium Tower, a housing complex close to the Salt Lake end, is sure that they are better off. “The reason is better connectivity. Theories of Renewal. Salt Lake City, Kolkata. Demographics[edit] At the 2011 census, Bidhan Nagar had a population of 218,323 (Males 111,363; Females 106,960). Bidhan Nagar has an average literacy rate of 90.44% (higher than the national average of 74%),[1] with male literacy of 93.08% and female literacy of 87.69%.[2] Geography[edit] An example of the many wetlands and lakes that still surround Bidhannagar.
Bidhannagar is located at WikiMiniAtlas 22°35′N 88°25′E / 22.58°N 88.42°E / 22.58; 88.42.[3] It has an average elevation of 11 metres (49 ft). History[edit] Transnational tender. Bidhannagar Municipality.