Urban India’s parking woes: an overview
Vehicular congestion and insufficient parking facilities are significant emerging challenges for India’s mega and metropolitan cities, severely impairing mobility. Although curtailed by constitutional
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For people, Surat & Ahd top list
New Delhi: In sharp contrast with the findings of the first Annual Survey of India’s City-Systems, Surat and Ahmedabad topped the list of 11 cities in the public survey on quality of life and city-system.
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Parking norms eased along transit paths
10% Lower Requirements For Buildings Beside BRTS, Metro Routes Ahmedabad: Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority (Auda) has relaxed parking requirements for commercial buildings along transit corridors of the city by 10%. Principally, these are along the BRTS and metro corridors. Auda claims that it would boost the commercial and corporate offices coming up along the corridors. Developers along the corridor also get the maximum permissible FSI — 4.
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Roof over roads to tap solar power
Gandhinagar: India’s major roads may double up as solar highways, if an innovative proposal by some scientists gets the government's approval. The proposal is the brainchild of scientists at the Gujarat Energy Research and Management Institute (GERMI) in the state capital. In a paper just published in the International Journal of Energy, Environment and Engineering, the scientists say highways can be used to generate solar power, if a roof of solar panels was laid over them, across the length of the roads.
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Godrej launches affordable housing scheme in Ahmedabad
Many developers have recently launched similar affordable home projects in the city Godrej Properties Ltd. (GPL), the real estate development arm of the Godrej Group, launched an affordable housing scheme in their township project Godrej Garden City (GGC) in Ahmedabad. Five new towers, each ground plus 12 storeys tall, will offer affordable one bedroom-hall-kitchen apartments each measuring 600 square feet at prices starting from Rs 16.5 lacs.
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Urbanisation to fuel 40% rise in power demand by 2017 in 13 cities
Electricity energy requirement in these cities to rise to 15,68,73 MUs by end of 12th plan. Urbanisation, development of infrastructure and increase in the number of malls and shopping complexes will lead
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Growing Green
There's a wizened figure hunched over a chulha in rural Uttar Pradesh. She stokes the fiery coals, coughs intermittently, and her eyes stream with the exertion of cooking over coal night after night. The
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Rs.20k-cr road projects set to get back on track
Work could soon begin in a clutch of stranded highway projects with likely combined investments of over R20,000 crore, as the Union environment ministry is set to give them approvals in one go. The ministry’s
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DBS to build 25,000 affordable homes in A'bad in five years
City-based DBS Affordable Home Strategy Ltd. is set to create about 25,000 affordable home for the lower income groups in next five years, financial closure for which the developer has achieved with micro finance institutions and banks. At a project cost of Rs 2,000 crore, DBS aims to achieve large scale mass production of houses that are affordable and financed through savings and credit systems that are accessible to the lower income groups and bottom half of the socio - economic pyramid in different parts of Ahmedabad.
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Affordable housing fastest growing segment in A'bad
Despite attractive schemes being launched by mid and premium segment residential and plotting projects, the Ahmedabad real estate market is witnessing a consistent growth only in the affordable housing segment in the sub-Rs 10 lakh and sub-Rs 5 lakh category, say developers and experts alike. According to experts, over 60 per cent of the close to 10,000 residential units being added up in next few months fall in the affordable housing segment, which is the sub-Rs 10 lakh and sub-Rs 15 lakh category. "There are simultaneous mid-premium and premium residential projects as well as plotting projects being launched in Ahmedabad.
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State's cities gear up to lobby for JNNURM works
With the Union urban ministry emphasizing the funding of major transportation projects in the country, Gujarat's cities have readied teams to lobby for multi-crore BRTS projects to be taken up on priority basis in the coming JNNURM committee meeting. The Union budget has made provisions for almost Rs 14,873 crore - a major portion of which will be directed at buying 10,000 buses across the country. Gujarat cities like Ahmedabad, Surat and Vadodara which are either at key points in their BRTS projects, or have yet to start work, would be visiting Delhi in the coming few weeks.