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 …
City accounts for 34 of 90 locational clearance applications received and 7 of 8 projects sanctioned While the Maharashtra Government is encouraging special townships under the new housing policy and 90 applications for locational clearances have so far been received, Pune is emerging as one of their major destinations. It …
The Citizens Welfare Committee has won the first round of battle against the South Goa Planning and Development Authority when the PDA handed over copy of the Outline Development Plan (ODP) for Margao to the activists. The plan, however, cost the CWC around Rs 1500
The state government on Wednesday launched a fresh round of regularisation for land declared as surplus under the Urban Land Ceiling Act, which was repealed recently. The lands which to be regularised are those which had been taken into possession by the government but were later encroached upon. Applications for …
In the last three years, the city engineer's office of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) sanctioned a mind-boggling 15.69 crore sq ft for development in the city. Against this the city builders could procure completion certificate for only 3.76 crore sq ft of built space. This would suggest that builders …
Despite expectations, the only major sops in the state budget for Mumbaiites is an increased FSI in the suburbs and the announcement that all the corridors of the Mumbai Metro rail project would be up and running in eight years. Also, MHADA colonies will be granted an FSI of 2.5 …
Affidavit says HMT not legally bound to get sanction HMT Limited is legally entitled to deal with its 100 acres of land at Kalamassery in Ernakulam and the assignment of 70 acres of the land to a Mumbai-based company would not be invalid or illegal either for want of consent …
Gram panchayat members of 19 villages have demanded that the compensation for land acquisition be increased from Rs.75 lakh per acre to Rs.2 crore. At a meeting organised by senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Vijay Goel at Alipur here, it was pointed out that the Delhi Government had increased the …
The Supreme Court has passed a ruling directing the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to acquire 1.50 acres of land from plot no 438 in Salisbury Park, which had been reserved in the 1966 as well as the 1987 Development Plan (DP) for the purpose of developing a garden and playground. …
the Maharashtra government repealed the Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act, 1976 on November 29 saying "the basic purpose of the act was not fulfilled'. The state government was under severe pressure from the centre to repeal the act to avail funds under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission. …
Poised on the northern edge of south Mumbai is a piece of real estate developers would love to get their hands on. Rubbing shoulders with upmarket Bandra, Dharavi is known as Asia's largest slum, but it's actually much more than that
After a delay of over six years, Goa has a 400-page blueprint for development. But the Goa Final Regional Plan 2011 has environmental groups, urban planners and the public up in arms. They want it to be repealed since it has subverted a draft plan released earlier for public comments. …
• Adopting modern accrual-based double entry accounting system with e-governance features such as GIS and MIS • Reform of property tax with GIS • Levy of reasonable user charges to recover full operation and maintenance costs • Internal earmarking within local bodies' budgets for basic services to the urban poor, …
• Repeal Urban Land Ceiling and Regulation Act • Reform of rent control laws • Rationalisation of stamp duty to 5 per cent • Property tax reforms • Levy of user charges • Adoption of double entry accounting system; and • Computerisation of land and property registration.
