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Multilevel problem

Delhi's parking plans will further subsidise private cars -- and increase congestion The current understanding of multilevel parking is quite poor. Typically, the cost of structured parking

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Deft operators

Delhi's parking managers Ram Prasad (name changed) came to Delhi more than 20 years ago from Uttar Pradesh and started working as a parking attendant at a commercial centre in Delhi. He soon

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Parking fees will have to go up

Ajay Maken, Union minister of state for urban development On solutions to the parking crisis We have brought out the National Urban Transport Policy. The idea is to encourage efficient

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Clamping wheels

Policy tools for managing parking demand A survey of literature from across the world shows demand for parking is infinite and no amount of supply can meet it. But carefully priced parking

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Learning to live with noise pollution

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Nerve-jarring noise is an inextricable part of urban lives. Most of us seem to accept the high decibels of vehicular traffic, deafening car horns, and the bedlam wrought by loudspeakers without

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Tiger farming: India debates China experiment

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The tiger could be made to pay its way out of crisis if a section of conservationists in the country have their way, the Chinese way, actually. China is now considering legalising trade in products

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Should NABARD regulate micro finance?

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The Micro Financial Sector (Development & Regulations) Bill 2007 has been under the scanner of late. The bill proposes to make the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (nabard) the

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Private sector wants to adopt public health bodies

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That health care facilities available to the poor are insufficient is common knowledge. According to a recent report of the Associated Chamber of Commerce and Industry of India (assocham), 1,083

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Climate change affects low lying areas, puts poor at risk

Low-elevation coastal zones (leczs) are areas at an elevation of 10 metres or less above sea level. Although leczs account for just 2 per cent of the world's total land area, they contain

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Deep waters

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