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 CAG has pointed out gaping loopholes in the implementation of the JNNURM, the Centre’s flagship urban infrastructure development scheme, ranging from diversion of funds to the tune of Rs115 crore to ineligible beneficiaries getting benefits, inadequate monitoring capacity and undue favours to contractors among several others. The Comptroller and …
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 …
Punjab will bring in a new housing policy by the middle of next month to attract more investments for its real estate sector, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal said here on Thursday. Speaking at a function here, he said the State is all set to become the new investment …
CM opens complex with provision for 1,500 homes; 850 units ready The residents of the erstwhile Ragigudda slum got secure shelters after a three-year wait on Wednesday, with Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar inaugurating the ‘Vivekananda Vasathi Sankeerna,’ a housing complex for 1,500 families from the slum. The slum-dwellers were displaced …
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 …
The abrupt land acquisition resulted in farmers taking up menial jobs such as those under contract labour and housekeeping The extensive highways in New Town at Rajarhat, a township on the fringes of this city, are dotted with sporadic high-rise buildings housing a remarkably high number of young office workers. …
Sikkim is the first State in the country to provide pucca houses to all its residents belonging to the economically weaker sections. The State Government has launched a social housing project, Chief Minister's Rural Housing Mission (CMRHM), under which around 6000 dwellers living in kutcha houses will get a new …
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, …
Report says urbanisation will be the single-largest factor driving demand for real estate and housing in particular Urbanisation will be the single-largest factor driving demand for real estate and housing in particular. This growing population has rapidly fueled the process of urbanisation. With 31 out of every 100 people in …
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 …
Beneficiaries to be finalised at Gram Sabha meetings As many as 2,094 beneficiaries from below poverty line (BPL) families are being allotted the Chief Minister’s Solar Powered Green Houses in all the 10 panchayat unions in the district, Collector Pooja Kulkarni said here on Tuesday. Addressing reporters, she said that …
Affected Families Can Opt For Plots Or Choose From LIG Flats, Affordable Housing Plans Jaipur: The much-awaited special rehabilitation policy for the affected house owners of Amanishah Nullah was finalised by the state government on Friday. The policy draws separate rules for the Below Poverty Lines (BPL) and Above Poverty …
This was discovered during an awareness drive in two Jaipur slums recently The daily struggle of slum dwellers for getting basic amenities and the glaring deficiency in the reach of the much-touted urban poverty alleviation schemes as well as other programmes for welfare of widows, disabled people and destitute children …
Jairam Ramesh concludes two days of intense negotiations The Central government will come halfway — literally — in its bid to prevent the thousands of landless poor now marching along National Highway 3 from actually reaching the capital. After two days of intense negotiations with the march’s organisers Ekta Parishad, …
New Delhi: Mocking Union ministers P Chidambaram, Salman Khurshid and Veerappa Moily for their defence of Robert Vadra, activistturned-politician Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday pointed out that in 2007, Haryana government handed over 30 acres of land it had acquired for a hospital to DLF for its SEZ venture. He noted …
Ahmedabad: The traditional middle-range housing and migrant population are going to set the rules for Ahmedabad’s real estate market in the coming years. A report on housing demand in eight big cities of India, suggest that Ahmedabad will see a fresh demand of 173,394 units for 2012-16. The report pegs …
In this fifth edition of Cities of Opportunity, PwC and the Partnership for New York City again examine the current social and economic performance of the world’s leading cities. Also add a future dimension that probes the shape of city economies to come. Together, looking at the 2012 results and …
Go Green to reduce your carbon footprint.’ With the movement fast catching on, how can real estate be behind? Enter green buildings, which aim at fostering a lifestyle that wean us away from our wasteful ways. Even as the concept is fast catching on, one of the primary reasons why …
