Shivani Singh leads the Delhi Metro team for Hindustan Times. A journalist for two decades, she writes about cities and urban concerns. She has reported extensively on issues of governance, administrative and social reforms, and education.
Articles by Shivani Singh
'Climate crisis not only urban, but also rural and developmental': IIHS director
Aromar Revi, director of the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, says climate change will trigger water and food crises.
Updated on May 29, 2023 05:39 PM IST
Success in transport lies in buses, says Shashi Verma
Shashi Verma, chief technology officer at TfL, talked to HT about the key issues in transport planning for urban centres, big and small.
Published on Mar 13, 2023 12:36 AM IST
Metro Matters | Delhi’s pedestrianisation projects deserve another push
Ensuring walkability in a car-crazy city is no easy task. It requires a consolidated effort to ensure proper implementation, maintenance and scaling up of pedestrian projects
Updated on Feb 19, 2022 03:17 PM IST
Metro Matters | In Delhi, creating open spaces for every neighbourhood
Nearly one-fourth of Delhi is green, but it has to find ways to ensure a more equitable distribution of open areas for residents to have access to quality outdoor spaces locally
Updated on Jan 24, 2022 02:23 PM IST
Metro Matters | The need to declutter Delhi
Time agencies and communities came together to enforce parking rules and declutter Delhi
Published on Jan 07, 2022 01:38 PM IST
Metro Matters | Needed: Systemic changes to prevent air emergencies in Delhi-NCR
Temporary measures, experts say, are meant to prevent any further build-up in the air pollution levels and only buy time for the wind to pick up
Updated on Dec 15, 2021 01:55 PM IST
Metro Matters | To defeat dengue, Delhi needs a multipronged approach
The disease burden can be reduced with disciplined urbanisation, provision of basic amenities, public participation and sustained prevention mechanisms
Updated on Nov 27, 2021 04:13 PM IST
Delhi’s pollution action plan stuck in fine print and protocol, needs relook
Experts said these protocols need a relook to make pollution control measures pre-emptive and not reactive as they are now.
Updated on Nov 15, 2021 04:52 AM IST
Metro Matters | Delhi must make reduce, reuse fashionable again
Reduce, repair and reuse are not alien concepts. These are traditional practices that just need refurbishing to make them fashionable again
Updated on Nov 09, 2021 12:03 PM IST
Metro Matters | Green infra is the health insurance Delhi needs
It took extreme rain to offer relief from Delhi’s high pollution in Delhi. But two wrongs do not make a right and the capital must act now to safeguard against these human-induced threats
Updated on Oct 25, 2021 08:03 PM IST
Shivani Singh, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
Delhi Master Plan 2041: People, processes, accountability key to implementation
A plan is only as good as its execution. Here is how to ensure that MPD-2041 does not meet the fate of its three predecessors, which mostly remained on paper
Updated on Aug 06, 2021 06:34 PM IST
Delhi Master Plans: The price of under-implementation since 1962
The capital’s long wait continues as unrealised provisions keep resurfacing in successive plans over six decades
Updated on Aug 04, 2021 05:55 PM IST
Delhi lost over 300 trees in three weeks. Experts explain what needs to be done
Officials and experts HT spoke to pointed at a range of factors, from the rampaging winds to poor canopy management and weakened roots that brought down so many trees
Updated on Jun 09, 2021 07:48 AM IST
With Class 12 board exams uncertain, how will students move to colleges?
The time to take a decision that will affect the lives and future of hundreds of thousands of students is approaching, even as all stakeholders — the government, the board, schools, parents and students — grapple with what is at stake while fighting the most severe health crisis India has witnessed ever
Updated on May 19, 2021 07:42 AM IST
‘We’ve to learn to live with Covid-19’, says Delhi deputy CM Manish Sisodia
The long-term after-effects of the lockdown are going to be more dangerous because there will be unemployment; there won’t be any liquidity in the market because of which businesses won’t grow, says Delhi’s deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia.
Updated on May 05, 2020 06:47 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Sweta Goswami and Shivani Singh
In face of coronavirus: Avoid panic, slow down, keep distance, wash well
For now, civic agencies making a bulk purchase of disinfectants and sodium hypochlorite, a disinfectant used in hospitals, to clean toilets as well as offices. One wonders why the administration waited until an epidemic outbreak to undertake measures that are anyway essential for safeguarding public health
Updated on Mar 16, 2020 08:03 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Shivani Singh
Delhi must stand together to fight the forces of division
More than 2,700 people were killed in the city in the aftermath of the assassination of the then prime minister Indira Gandhi by her two Sikh security guards on 31 October 1984.
Updated on Apr 06, 2020 02:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Shivani Singh
Delhi Elections 2020: ‘Only one party should rule MCDs, state and Centre for triple-engine governance’: Prakash Javadekar
Ahead of February 8 Delhi assembly polls, BJP’s Delhi elections in-charge Prakash Javadekar claimed, “we are getting a full majority. People will vote for us for based on the work done by the Modi government and the experience people have had with the Delhi government in the last five years.”
Updated on Jan 10, 2020 05:44 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Shivani Singh and Risha Chitlangia
If 2019 was about policies, let 2020 be about delivery
Policymaking was the crucial first step in addressing pressing concerns in Delhi. As we move into a new a decade, the real test, however, lies in the enforcement of these schemes.
Updated on Jan 06, 2020 04:15 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Shivani Singh
Reclaiming the streets, reinventing a capital
The Raahgiri Day, launched in 2013 to reclaim road space for pedestrians and cyclists, and promote physical activities, was organised in Connaught Place, Dwarka, Rohini and Shahdara, but it failed to become a regular feature in Delhi. In neighbouring Gurugram, however, the programme completed six years on Sunday.
Updated on Dec 02, 2019 01:39 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Shivani Singh
A Delhi legend unravels: A Partition tragedy of royals who were not
It is both unreal and shattering to realise what culminated in Delhi’s Ridge forest seven long decades after Independence was, in all likelihood, yet another Partition tragedy.
Updated on Nov 25, 2019 11:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Shivani Singh
Let’s fight air pollution every day of the year
While the WHO recommends annual average PM 2.5 level be kept under 10 micrograms per cubic metre (µg/m3), India’s national air quality standards set the safe annual average limit at 40 µg/m3 and a 24-hour standard of 60 µg/m3. Last year, Delhi’s annual average PM 2.5 was 115 µg/m3.
Updated on Nov 18, 2019 09:51 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Shivani Singh
Fight stubble fires, curb local pollutants
The authorities keep claiming incremental progress. The Delhi government says it has reduced air pollution by 25% in four years. Even Punjab concedes that stubble-burning is part of the problem and seeks central assistance to find a permanent solution in consultation with Delhi and Haryana.
Updated on Nov 04, 2019 10:59 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Shivani Singh
Diwali: Another test for Delhi’s right to breathe
The drop in temperature and slow wind-speed traps the toxic air, turning Delhi and National Capital Region into what is often described as a “gas chamber”.
Updated on Oct 21, 2019 02:15 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Shivani Singh
Delhi’s parking policy needs public support
Right now, the biggest share of Delhi’s road space is hogged by more than 10 million cars and two-wheelers.
Published on Sep 30, 2019 10:16 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Shivani Singh
Fix basics while imposing new rules for road safety
Hopefully, the fine amounts will not be drastically slashed for offences that are linked directly to road safety. Last year, as many as four persons were killed in road fatalities every day in Delhi.
Updated on Sep 16, 2019 11:25 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Shivani Singh
India’s no first use principle is a legacy that must be preserved
The time to abandon the NFU policy has not come yet. Instead, India should work for a global treaty on NFU that includes all the de jure and de facto nuclear weapon powers
Updated on Sep 02, 2019 06:53 PM IST
Fight against dengue begins at our home
While Delhi needs to scale up the Mohalla clinic model for good primary healthcare and provision for more hospital beds to take the patient load in case of an outbreak, medical infrastructure alone cannot curtail these diseases.
Updated on Sep 02, 2019 07:40 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Shivani Singh
New theme for Delhi parks: biodiversity
Till mid-2000, the landscape where the Aravalli Biodiversity Park stands now was a mining area infested with an invasive exotic plant called Prosopis juliflora or vilayati kikar.
Updated on Jun 21, 2020 10:33 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Shivani Singh
Stop wasting water even if you can afford to pay for it
For saving water at home, it is up to the citizens to curb daily wastage and misuse of water even if they pay for it.
Updated on Aug 19, 2019 12:03 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Shivani Singh
