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The South Delhi Municipal Corporation has become the first civic body in India to generate solar power energy and earn Rs 9.69 lakh in just three months by exporting surplus power to a power distribution company. Acoording to the data presented by the SDMC, around 3.14 lakh units have been generated by the solar panels while 1.14 lakh units were internally consumed, rest of it has been fed back to the grid.

Early this year, the Centre launched the Liveability Index, which is meant to rank 116 cities on the basis of the living standards they provide to their citizens. How these cities perform on this index would be known only in June. Among the cities that have made it to the list is Gurgaon, where authorities are busy making plans to ensure the city gets a good ranking.

In order to record the actual ridership on individual lines in the Metro network, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is launching a new software that will help the authority understand how the system is being used. At present, the passenger traffic is calculated based on the entry and exit made by a passenger at the Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) gate.

The Haryana government has approved a budget of Rs 600 crore for enhancing the civic facilities under the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) scheme. Around nine projects in seven towns have been selected for the second phase of the scheme. The scheme was launched in 2015 for improving basic urban infrastructure to households entailing water supply, sewerage networks, storm water drains, urban transport, and open and green spaces, across 500 Indian cities.

Around 77 villages flanking the Eastern Peripheral Expressway (EPE) and Delhi-Meerut Expressway (DME) will soon be administered by the Ghaziabad Development Authority.