Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
Now annual income up to 1 lakh will be EWS and those between 1 lakh and 2 lakh LIG In a far-reaching decision that would impact a large number of Economically Weaker Section and Lower Income Group households in Delhi and curb to a great deal the practice of making …
New Delhi Attributing the housing boom to easy availability of loans, new housing and urban poverty alleviation minister Ajay Maken on Wednesday said that the housing bubble could burst in the absence of proper planning. As per the latest figure, he said, the number of vacant houses in the country …
New Delhi The special extra-commercial borrowings (ECB) window for low-cost housing projects will be subject to a cap of $1 billion to start with. The detailed norms for ECB access to this segment, which is facing a funds crunch, are likely to be announced soon, say government sources. In August, …
The Centre will soon implement Phase II of the Rajiv Awas Yojna with a focus on providing long-term and bankable property rights to slum dwellers, Union Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Minister Ajay Maken said, soon after taking charge of his new Ministry on Tuesday. Talking to journalists at his …
Declaring that the first in-situ slum rehabilitation project undertaken at Kathputli Colony in his New Delhi parliamentary constituency was close to his heart, Union Housing and Poverty Alleviation Minister Ajay Maken said on Tuesday that more such projects would be planned to rid the city and other urban areas across …
Apartments: In a country where a construction boom has created a large number of houses, many have no one to live in them and yet a larger number of people remains without a proper house. A government study has highlighted this contrast and called for measures to bridge the gap. …
Guwahati, Sept. 24: The northeastern states are facing a shortage of 0.68 million urban dwelling units, with Assam still topping the list despite recording a decrease since 2007. This was stated in the Union ministry of housing and poverty alleviation’s latest report on urban housing shortage for the Twelfth Plan …
New Delhi In a bid to spur real estate players to build homes for the low-income population, the proposal to allow them to access end-use linked external commercial borrowings (ECBs) for low-cost housing will soon be implemented. According to a senior government official, “the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is …
Nearly 500 jhuggi dwellers from eight slum tenements on Wednesday became proud owners of their dwelling units, at least on paper, as they were presented with allotment letters to their houses at a function at Delhi Secretariat. The Government has in this scheme for the first time used biometrics to …
The Housing and Urban Development Corporation Limited (HUDCO) wants to focus on housing for the economically weaker sections. On Tuesday, its Chairman and Managing Director V. P. Baligar said the organisation has upped its performance in the social housing sector, and is keen to do more. “We are in discussions …
The policy will include increasing the floor space index & easing of density norms An affordable housing policy is in the works to attract developers and to meet the shortage of around 25 million houses in the country. The Union Budget had announced access to external commercial borrowing (ECB) for …
Escrow account, routing of fund through specified agencies under consideration, real estate bodies want clarity in definition The finance ministry is building safeguards to ensure realty companies do not misuse the external commercial borrowing (ECB) window announced in the Budget by diverting the money. A senior official told Business Standard …
MUMBAI: The state is against a central legislation for regulation of the housing sector. It feels that regulation and monitoring of housing must be dealt with at the state level. After proposing model guidelines to regulate the sector in 2009, the Union ministry of housing and urban poverty alleviation has …
The civic authorities have engaged the Housing and Urban Development Corporation (Hudco), a central agency, to prepare theme papers and detailed project reports on beautifying the city and making it slum-free. The beautification scheme will be implemented with funds provided under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, while the slum-free …
After bicycles and utensils, the SAD-BJP government has now started pasting cyclostyled messages at the entry gates of toilets in rural areas, singing praises of the Punjab Government for providing these for the poor sections to help them live with ‘self-respect’. Five month back, the Union Ministry for Housing and …
NEW DELHI: The Planning Commission affidavit to the Supreme Court which claimed that a rural poor can manage food, education and health requirements with a mere Rs 25 a day has given fresh ammunition to the BJP to take on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek …
AIZAWL: The Central government has sanctioned 134 projects worth Rs.2,610 crore for poverty alleviation, development of infrastructure and providing basic services in the urban areas of the eight Northeastern states, an official release said here Sunday. “Under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), 134 projects with a cost …
With Bihar government voicing its reservation against the below poverty line (BPL) survey being conducted by the Central government, Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh is slated to visit Patna this Friday and clarify doubts over the socio-economic-cum-caste census (SECC), 2011, to break the deadlock over the BPL survey in …
Kollam has become the first City Corporation in the State to finish the preliminary work including surveying and mapping of slums in the run-up to the rollout of the Rs 350-crore Rajiv Awaz Yojna (RAY) scheme. Based on the socio-economic survey which will be completed fully by August 15, the …
‘Land acquisition a hurdle for RAY implementation’ NEW DELHI: Meghalaya has supported the grand idea of a slum-free India through the maiden initiative of Rajiv Awas Yojana, but at the same time expressed difficulties to implement the same since the hill State, which falls under the Sixth Schedule of the …
