Sustainable Urban Habitat (SUH)
The objective of programmes and activities under this thrust area is to improve planning, financing and operation of urban environmental infrastructure in selected cities. The services include:
- Technical support for the implementation of projects and reforms, in at least 4 cities, under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission of the Goverment of India.
- Support and implementation of the EcoCity programme for the promotion of ecologically, economically and socially balanced urban development in the cities of Kottayam, Ujjain, Vrindavan, Puri and Tirupati.
- Upgrading urban sustainability management capacities in the participating agencies of the EcoCity programme.
- Initiating a municipal environmental reporting system under the Urban Environmental Information System (Urb-Envis Project) in selected cities and town, to increase local participation in environmental processes and decision-making.
- An air quality data acquisition system has been developed for the Central Pollution Control Board.
- Air Pollution Source Apportionment studies in major Indian cities to track down the sources and assess the extent of their contribution to air pollution
Projects under the Thrust Area
Eco City Project
In the year 2002, as a part of the X Plan activities, the EcoCity Project was initiated by the Central Pollution Control Board with the grants-in-aid from the Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India... ...
- Urban Sustainability Management - Capacity Building and Networking In Indian Ecocities
- Urban Environmental Information System
- EcoCity Project - X Plan Project of CPCB
Support to JNNURM
The Indian economy is growing on average at 7.2% per year in the last few years. The cities are the main driving force of economic growth. At the same time, India is faced with the challenges posed by rapid growth of cities themselves... ...
Upgrade Environmental Infrastructure by Restoring Livelihoods (RELIVE)
The Tsunami struck countries in South and South East Asia on December 26th 2004. Entire communities and their socio-economic infrastructure were left in shambles in the wake of this disaster... ..
Air Pollution Source Apportionment Studies
The air pollution levels especially in the urban areas are increasing in India. The efforts so far for pollution control mainly focused on monitoring and pollution control in the industry and vehicular sectors... ...
Air Quality Data Acquisition System
Project Description: Although a number of continuous air quality monitoring stations are operating in the country, acquiring the data in time and making it available for use has been an issue for many years... ...
Portable Mobile Laboratory for Air Quality Monitoring at CPCB
The project activity targeted setting up of a portable mobile air quality monitoring laboratory in place of the existing large mobile laboratory. The scope of the activity included... ...
Restructuring of CPCB Website
The project activity is taken up for restructuring and redesigning the CPCB website (www.cpcb.nic.in) The new site is expected to handle large amount of information related to growing activities... .
Informing Indian water supply companies, organizations and communities about RBF and its successful application in India and Germany
The Cooperation Centre for Riverbank Filtration (CCRBF) in Haridwar was formed in 2007 as a result of an intensive three year old partnership between the University of Applied Sciences Dresden (HTW)... ...
Reconstruction of Koop wells in hilly regions of Uttarakhand for betterment of the supplied water quality
In the hilly rural regions of Uttarakhand, surface water is mainly abstracted for drinking. The typically used water abstraction structures, called boulder filled galleries (BFG) are often damaged during monsoons and are thus maintenance intensive... ...
