Public Works Department

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How the Proposed Highway Through Pakke Tiger Reserve Could Endanger the Forest

Nikhil Eapen 20/03/2020

The government has ignored a 2019 circular by the...

Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, College of Civil Engineering Pune, Theodore Cooke, Public Works Department, Engineers Day, civil engineering, licentiate of civil engineering, Bombay University, RG Bhandarkar, LP Misra, Ganga Ram,

Engineers’ Day: The Story of the Irishman Who Moulded Visvesvaraya’s Alma Mater

Aparajith Ramnath 15/09/2019

Commemorating Engineers' Day, the birth anniversary of the noted...

Panzara river, Dhule, Maharashtra, Public Works Department, National green Tribunal, National Water Policy 2012, Water Prevention and Control of Pollution Act 1974, floodplains, submersible roads, encroachment, river flow,

NGT Okays New Road Project on Floodplains of the Panzara River in Dhule

Nidhi Jamwal 03/01/2019

The Public Works Department, which is building the road,...

Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Engineer’s Day: The Little Known Histories of Indian, British Engineers Before 1947

Aparajith Ramnath 15/09/2018

In the period between the World Wars, homegrown Indian...

Migratory birds at a restored wetland in Yamuna Biodiversity Park, Delhi. Credit: Neha Sinha

Who is Responsible for Wetlands in India? Many and No One

Pushp Jain 03/09/2016

While several civic bodies are responsible, wetlands have been...