Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said Tuesday the state government is preparing a “Master Development Plan-2031” for Faridabad and assured industry all its present problems will be addressed by it.

Hooda, who was addressing industrialists at the 60th AGM of the Faridabad Industries Association, which is celebrating its diamond jubilee this year, at Surjakund near here on Monday, said his government had accomplished several projects in Faridabad during the past eight years and more were in the pipeline.

GURGAON: The private concessionaire operating the solid waste management plant at Bandhwari has assured the city municipal corporation authorities that the plant's capacity will gradually increase,

Builders to be given sops, including waiver of fees

At a time when the property prices have skyrocketed in the urban areas, affordable housing may well be within the reach of the ‘aam aadmi’ in Haryana. In fact, with a view to attract the private builders to go in for affordable housing, the Hooda Government is set to launch its ambitious "Affordable Housing Policy-2013" to provide housing to the lower strata of society with an eye on the forthcoming parliamentary and the state Assembly elections next year.

Haryana is considering introducing a Mono rail between Faridabad and Gurgaon, which will further accelerate the pace of development in the area, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said on Sunday.

The modalities of the project will be worked out, Mr. Hooda told a rally here while announcing a slew of incentives for Faridabad, including construction of a road from Bata Chowk to B.K. Civil Hospital costing Rs.12 crore and rehabilitation of slum dwellers after a survey in February.

Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Tuesday said the state government has prepared a “Multi-Modal Mobility” plan to provide better transport facilities, like Metro and pod taxis, to the people.

Haryana is seriously considering running pod taxi in big cities and in Gurgaon, including the old city. Mr Hooda was speaking after flagging off the trial run of Rapid Metro, an intra-city metro service, in Gurgaon which is first of its kind project on Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) model in the country and he also laid foundation stone of it’s extension.

As governments grapple with mounting quantities of waste and draft policies to tackle it, waste pickers who earn their livelihood from collection, segregation and disposal of waste still remain neglected, reveals a new study by a non-government organisation.

Accessing the welfare programmes and the prevalent rules for waste management in 14 major cities, Chintan, an environment action and research group, in its report ‘Failing the Grade’ has claimed that there was no city that has fully implemented the rules and policies for waste pickers.

Seeks to justify recent hike in power tariff, says the sector should be looked at 'realistically'

Seeking to justify the recent hike in power tariff, the Delhi Government said the sector should be looked at "realistically" as the cost of raw materials have increased and that tariff in the capital is "much less" than those in other major cities. "Unless the power sector is looked at realistically, the situation in the sector will not improve. The cost of raw materials have increased. The price of coal has increased," Power Minister Haroon Yusuf said.

60 new buses connecting metro stations every 15 minutes

Commuters in the satellite towns of Gurgaon and Faridabad have reason to rejoice with the Haryana Roadways agreeing to introduce feeder buses connecting these towns to major metro railway stations in the Capital. The service has become operational with close to 60 buses plying on routes connecting metro stations such as Badarpur, Tughlakabad, AIIMS, Kashmere Gate and HUDA City Centre every 15 minutes.

The Delhi Metro’s extensions into the national capital region got a shot in the arm on Monday with the Haryana government signing an MoU with the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) for the extensi

The Haryana government and Delhi Metro Rail Corporation on Monday signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the 14-km-long, elevated extension of the Badarpur line up to Faridabad.