Order of the High Court of Gujarat in the matter of Samsuddin Jainulabiddin Shaikh & Others Vs The State of Gujarat & Others dated 06/05/2025. A petition was filed by 58 people who are residing near Chandola lake, Ahmedabad. The petitioners have constructed hutments along the periphery of Chandola lake. …
The Haryana Urban Local Bodies Department has so far spent about Rs 4,100 crore since 2005 on strengthening of roads and construction of parks in urban areas falling under various Municipalities of the state. A spokesman of the department said with a view to make the state slum free in …
Once bitten twice shy. The Phailin onslaught has promoted the jittery state government to reassess the planning and design of the proposed houses to be built under the centrally-sponsored Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) for the urban poor in Bhubaneswar. Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) commissioner Sanjib Kumar Mishra has asked the …
PE firm Avenue Venture invests Rs 40cr in Vastubodh's affordable housing project. Vastubodh to launch affordable housing project in Boisar Mumbai. Pune-based Vastubodh Projects today announced that it has received funding of Rs 40 crore for two of its affordable housing projects from PE firm Avenue Venture Partners Real Estate …
The housing shortage in the urban areas has touched 18.78 million units, where 95% of the shortage is in the economically weaker section and low income group, a report by the National Housing Bank (NHB) said. The Report on Trend and Progress of Housing in India - 2013 said the …
The state government has started exploring assistance from the World Bank and the Centre to make Berhampur town slum free after 158 of the total 262 slums in southern Odisha town were devastated during cyclone Phailin. The state government has sought special aid of Rs 313.97 crore under Rajiv Awas …
The cabinet on Wednesday allowed auctioning of sand and stone mine sites in Maharashtra. State and district environment committees will soon be set up to scrutinize and proposals and sites. The decision will facilitate faster construction of infrastructure and housing projects. “There is a perception that the administration has given …
The Punjab Government’s policy on regularising illegal colonies is full of anomalies. As people in unauthorised colonies make a beeline to get their houses/plots regularised, they are unaware that this will not be possible till the time the colonies gets an environmental clearance. The rules clearly state that any housing …
The Goa State Pollution Control Board has decided to make construction of a sewage treatment plant (STP) mandatory in all future housing projects with 24 flats or more, failing which they would not be granted construction licences/consents to establish. The proposal passed during the GSPC board meeting on Wednesday, would …
Ignoring the protests of Sanjay Nagar Kachhi Basti residents, Meena Housing Society (MHS) has started levelling the ground at the foothills of Moti Doongri under its Diamond Hill project on Thursday. The land was entangled in controversy as late Rajmata Gayatri Devi wanted to develop a park while the Jaipur …
Two days after Cyclone Phailin made landfall, Chhatrapur, the district headquarters of Ganjam, struggled without electricity or water supply. And as the villagers made their way back home from the cyclone shelters, many found their houses flattened. The official death toll due to the cyclone was pegged at 21 on …
Of 83 environmental cases pending in various courts across the country, over 70% were filed in 2013 and most of them are related to mining. Of 83 cases, nine cases are pending before the National Green Tribunal (NGT), six cases are in the Supreme Court, 19 cases are in the …
Ushering in a policy of affordable housing in Gurgaon and other prime areas of the state, the Haryana government plans to build 1.25 lakh flats under the first phase. The size and price of these flats will be decided by the government and allotment will be done through draw of …
The state government got a rap on the knuckles from the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) for its urban local bodies flouting JNNURM norms. They have also been slammed for lack of planning and delay in projects. In its report for year ended March 2012, CAG has come …
In a move environmentalists have called disastrous, the Delhi Development Authority has issued a public notice seeking to reduce the city's zone O — comprising Yamuna and the river front — by as much as 40% to pave the way for the regularization of various illegal settlements and constructions in …
A new climate change mitigation project to promote sustainable biomass energy production and modern bio-energy technologies commenced in Sri Lanka . Read more in this first Monthly Sri Lanka State of the Environment Report published by the South Asia Environment Portal. September 2013 Edition is out! Download, Read and Share. …
An ambitious scheme of the Union government of making cities slum-free has run into trouble in Indore. Though the civic body claims to have spent over Rs 28 crore under the scheme, slum dwellers say mandatory procedures while chalking out details of the scheme for Indore were not followed. Rajiv …
The Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation has invited comments/feedback on this draft 'Model State Affordable Housing Policy for Urban Areas ’by October 16, 2013. It aims to create an enabling environment for providing “affordable housing for all” and also promote Public Private People Participation (PPPP) for addressing the …
Government after careful consideration have been pleased to modify certain provisions of the `Scheme for Affordable Urban Housing in Odisha, 2012’ in order to make it more effective in delivering its objectives. Accordingly, the revised version entitled “Revised scheme for affordable urban housing in Odisha 2013” is hereby notified, which …
Jaipur: The Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) will start the procedure to change the land use of the Prithvi Raj Nagar (PRN) scheme in the Master Plan 2025. At present the scheme is marked as Special zone in the plan. In a meeting chaired by GS Sandhu, the urban development and …
India’s sheer size and poverty have meant that addressing the needs of its hundreds of millions of poor and vulnerable citizens has preoccupied Indian policymakers since independence. Unsurprisingly, the mix of strategies, the resulting policy instruments to undergird them and their relative effectiveness have been a matter of contentious debate.
