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. …
Hygiene and sanitation will be the focus of the next round of sample survey across the country that will begin on July 1. K.P. Unnikrishnan, Deputy Director-General, National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO), South zone, said here on Monday that source and availability of drinking water and housing conditions too would …
Seeking to absolve himself of culpability in the 'Adarsh' scam, Union Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Wednesday passed the buck to former Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, saying the "whole" matter was referred to the revenue department for clearance after which the land was allotted. "The whole Adarsh matter pertained to land …
Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh said in order to accelerate the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan, the Centre had gone in for a total revamp of the programme. Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has said that the country would take at least 10 years to achieve the Nirmal Bharath status, …
AHMEDABAD: It's quite surprising that despite an existing ban on construction of residential colonies within 500 metres of the hazardous landfill sites, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has built houses for economically weaker sections in Vastral area, well within the banned limit. The ban was imposed by the central pollution control …
Almost a year after Saranda was wrested out of Maoist control by security forces, large numbers of tribal families living in the dense forests of the Jharkhand district have found themselves left out in the cold when it comes to government assistance. “We discovered that just about 3,000 of the …
JAIPUR: Chief minister Ashok Gehlot has recommended that the state's Mukhya Mantri Gramin BPL Awas Yojana be extended across the country to grant the citizens a "right to shelter". Gehlot made the suggestion to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, considering the scheme's popularity among Rajasthan's weaker sections. Gehlot earlier put forward …
Chief Minister Oommen Chandy told the Assembly on Tuesday that an expert committee comprising representatives from government departments and institutions would be constituted on Wednesday to study the report of the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) headed by Madhav Gadgil and suggest alternatives. Replying to a submission moved by …
Concerned official circles in Madhya Pradesh are now in the action mode and have started defining the strategy to “leave behind the grim legacy of Union Carbide gas disaster of 1984 and carve out a future and build Bhopal as a global environment city” as emphasised by Prime Minister’s advisor …
A committee appointed by the state government to study certain aspects of the ambitious rental housing scheme has recommended the introduction of affordable housing in special townships in areas outside the limits of municipal councils. The committee, comprising the metropolitan commissioner, principal secretaries of housing and urban development, last week …
Bhubaneswar: The National Sample Survey (NSS) set up in 1950 by the Centre to collect socio-economic data employing scientific sampling methods, will start its 69th round from July 1. The survey will continue up to December 31 covering 9, 428 villages and 7, 684 urban blocks in the country. In …
Tokyo has this year become the world’s most expensive city for expatriates, pushing Luanda in Angola, which topped the list last year, down to second position. Japan has two more cities, Osaka and Nagoya, in the Top 10 list at third and tenth places, according to the Worldwide Cost of …
Close on the heels of the state government declaring 2014 as the new cut-off date for the Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP), the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (Mhada) — the nodal agency for the execution of the revamp of sector five — has revised its own deadline. The agency …
Guwahati, June 11: Union minister for rural development Jairam Ramesh today approved in principle connectivity to 270 habitations in Arunachal Pradesh with a cost of approximately Rs 1,918 crore in 2012-13. He also increased the allocation for an Indira Awas Yojana house from Rs 45,800 to Rs 75,000. Ramesh approved …
The Rajasthan Government will shortly launch a pilot project under the Rajiv Awas Yojana at a cost of Rs.400 crore for providing housing facility to about 12,000 people living in Sanjay Nagar slum colony here. The project forms part of the drive for providing better infrastructure and amenities to the …
Ahmedabad: This is a tragedy of urban existence that open spaces are shrinking. In fact, a group of concerned parents from different societies in the city have upped the ante against Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) for diverting a public ground to rehabilitate Bapunagar chawls’ residents. Angry residents of Bajrang and …
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 …
This paper explores the type and quality of linkages between the objective of achieving sustainable consumption and production (SCP) patterns, and those of poverty alleviation and sustainable development. The paper constructs a theoretical framework based on the analysis of development specialists, as well as scenarios and empirical data which show …
The first allotment of the 500 houses for the Economically Weaker Section, constructed under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, will start soon and continue till all the nearly-15,000 houses had have allotted to jhuggi-jhopri cluster households. Apart from this, the Delhi Government said in the Budget, presented by …
From “development with a human face” in the 12th Five Year Plan, Delhi will be moving towards becoming a “good, productive and caring city” in the 12th Plan that begins in 2012, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said as she presented the Delhi Budget for 2012-13 in the Assembly on Monday. …
Read the Delhi Budget Speech delivered by Chief Minister Sheila Dixit for the financial year 2012- 2013. The year 2012-2013 is the first year of a new plan period, the Twelfth Five Year Plan (2012-2017). During this period, she observes Delhi emerging as a ‘Caring City’. for more text: http://delhi.gov.in/wps/wcm/connect/b83433004b67e23f8b1bbbec24aa3605/BUDGET+SPEECH.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&lmod;=-1830083256&CACHEID;=b83433004b67e23f8b1bbbec24aa3605&lmod;=-1847434430&CACHEID;=b83433004b67e23f8b1bbbec24aa3605&lmod;=-1847434430&CACHEID;=b83433004b67e23f8b1bbbec24aa3605&lmod;=-1847434430&CACHEID;=b83433004b67e23f8b1bbbec24aa3605&lmod;=-1847434430&CACHEID;=b83433004b67e23f8b1bbbec24aa3605
