Judgment of the Supreme Court in the matter of In Re: Zudpi Jungle Lands. A batch of applications involved a peculiar issue concerning the situation prevailing in the six districts of eastern Vidarbha region namely Nagpur, Wardha, Bhandara, Gondia, Chandrapur and Gadchiroli. The issue pertains to the status of the …
This paper presents analysis of the fiscal and equity impacts of urban land value capture instruments based on three case studies from the global south. These include the Lideta redevelopment in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the Outer Ring Road in Hyderabad, India; and Água Espraiada Urban Operation in São Paulo, Brazil. …
This paper describes and analyses six mechanisms that provide an end-to-end area development approach that enables land acquisition, its planning, and servicing, as well as methods to capture the land’s increased value to help pay for basic infrastructure and social amenities. A case was selected for each type of mechanism …
Regenerating Urban Land draws on the experience of eight case studies from around the world. The case studies outline various policy and financial instruments to attract private sector investment in urban regeneration of underutilized and unutilized areas and the requisite infrastructure improvements. In particular, each case study details the project …
Paralleling the increasing disparities in income and wealth worldwide since the 1980s, cities in developing countries have witnessed the emergence of a growing divergence of lifestyles, particularly within the middle classes, reinforced by the widening gap between the quality of public and private educational and health care institutions, spatial segregation, …
With cities increasingly in the spotlight on the international stage, urban planning and development has become a critical issue in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While slums continue to grow in most developing countries, reinforcing other forms of inequality, urban planning requires a shift from viewing urbanisation mainly as a …
Urbanization is transforming the developing world. However, understanding the pace, scale, and form of urbanization has been limited by a lack of consistent data. East Asia’s Changing Urban Landscape aims to address this problem by using satellite imagery and other data to measure urban expansion across the East Asia and …
These Development Control Regulations shall be called the Development Control Regulations for Pune Municipal Corporation, Pune 2011, also called as Parent Development Control Regulations. These Development Control Regulations shall apply to building activity and development work in areas under the jurisdiction of Pune Municipal Corporation limit as notified u/s 23 …
The study: ‘Bridging the Urban Housing Shortage in India’, a joint effort of NAREDCO and KPMG in India, discusses at length on the rising trend of urbanisation in India and the looming urban housing shortage. It further deliberates on the constraints faced by real estate developers in their bid to …
Developers dejected as govt rules out repeal of Urban Land Ceiling Act The promise of Ma, Mati, Manush governance by Mamata Banerjee may fall short of the second M-word, meaning land — at least for real estate developers in the state’s capital city. For, the West Bengal government has now …
Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) marks an important advance in the approach of governments to social housing for the urban poor, slums and basic public services for poor urban settlements. The Working Group of the National Advisory Council (NAC) on Urban Poverty have examined the policy and guidelines announced by the …
In a bid to make land being acquired for residential purposes more cumbersome, the government is all set to incorporate application of rehabilitation and resettlement (R&R) clause on acquisition of land of 50 acres and more in urban areas. Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh on Thursday told a delegation of …
New Delhi: The proposed change in laws on rent control may come as a shock to tenats paying monthly rent of Rs 50 or 100. Though rent control is a state subject, the Centre is seeking adoption of the model law by mandating that only states that enact this law …
This paper examines land tenure in informal urban settlements in India from a gender perspective through field research conducted in Ahmedabad in collaboration with the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA). The author describes the formal and informal tenure arrangements that were in place in these settlements and analyses their implications for …
Land is the heart of infrastructure development. The first India Infrastructure Report (IIR), which was brought out in 2001, identified the process of land acquisition as the most important structural constraint to the development of infrastructure. This IIR 2009 to examine various facets of
Perfect urban infrastructure is where basic civic amenities for healthy living are made available before the actual construction of dwelling units. This does not exist in developing countries easily. In India particularly, it is far from satisfactory. This happened due to a major mistake made by our leaders post-Independence. The …
This paper describes and discusses community-driven land tenure initiatives to address the issue of access to land in urban areas in the Philippines. This includes countering actual and threatened displacements from market-driven land, housing and urban development policies, mega-infrastructure development and disasters. The paper begins with a review of the …
The Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) was planned in 1962 as a goods service linking five important work areas of the city. Subsequently, it was upgraded for commuter use as well. Pakistan Railways now wish to upgrade and expand the circular railway and double-track those parts of it that are single …
Land-based financing of urban infrastructure is growing in importance in the developing world. Why is it so difficult to finance urban infrastructure investment, when land values typically increase by more than the cost of investment? Unlocking Land Values to Finance Urban Infrastructure examines the theory underlying different instruments of land-based …
It will help give approval with retrospective effect: Karunanidhi CHENNAI: The decision of the Cabinet to make changes in the Land Reforms Act has been taken to enable the government to give approval, with retrospective effect and ex-post facto permission, to charitable trusts for purchase of land to establish educational …
