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. …
MUMBAI: To get residents to take up rainwater harvesting, BMC officials will begin visiting housing societies and urge them to implement the project in their colonies. The civic body also plans to put up hoardings, advertisements and start awareness campaigns regarding the system. Besides, it has also introduced property tax …
After scrapping the Mahamaya Awas Yojna and Mahamaya Sarvajan Awas Yojna of the previous BSP government, the UP government has decided to launch a single housing scheme for the rural poor, named Lohia Awas Yojna. Both abolished schemes were launched by former CM Mayawati on the lines of the Centre’s …
JAIPUR: The state cabinet on Wednesday approved allotment of nearly 400 hectares land near Sariska to the forest department in return for the land acquired in Jaipur for the Rajiv Gandhi Awas Yojana meant to rehabilitate slum dwellers. Decisions related to salaries and perks of chairperson and members of the …
The Delhi government on Monday decided to expedite the construction of around 70,000 low-cost flats for slum dwellers while asking the concerned department to immediately start distribution of 14,000 flats completed. The 14,000 flats will be distributed among the residents of the slums which have come up on land owned …
The policy will include increasing the floor space index & easing of density norms An affordable housing policy is in the works to attract developers and to meet the shortage of around 25 million houses in the country. The Union Budget had announced access to external commercial borrowing (ECB) for …
In a bid to make the city slum-free, the Delhi government has decided to start allocation of around 10,000 low cost flats from next month. The project is, however, delayed for more than three years. The government will allocate 500 flats to slum dwellers in June and the allocation would …
Their fight for consolidation of land holdings doesn't seem to end “We believed that if the bureaucrats don't listen, our political representatives will, and if they don't listen as well, then there is always the law. But after decades of raising our voice against neglect and discrimination, all we want …
AHMEDABAD: In what may come as a setback for AMC, the union ministry of urban development has sent a report highlighting shortcomings in the JNNURM projects implemented in Ahmedabad city. Union minister Kamal Nath, in his letter of April 25, 2012, has informed the state government to take "immediate actions" …
New Delhi may be the capital of the country but 22 per cent of its people do not have access to a latrine in their premises and are forced to defecate in the open or use public toilet. According to 'Houselisting and Housing Census 2011' for Delhi released today, 89.5 …
Houselisting and Housing Only 78.4 per cent houses have provision for drinking water on premises, 3.3 per cent still defecate in the open. Drinking water and sanitation, the two basic civic needs, are still lacking from many parts of the city, the Houselisting and Housing Census 2011 has found. The …
MUMBAI: A senior officer of the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF), Dr A Senthil Vel, will on Wednesday take the witness stand before the judicial commission inquiring into the Adarsh scam. Senthil Vel's evidence would be crucial as it was his letter that was misinterpreted as environmental clearance …
Almost 10 months after the Central government’s flagship scheme Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) was launched in Maharashtra, the state government has been able to zero in on merely two projects to be sent to the Centre for approval under the scheme. While the state government was to address the issue …
The Bombay High Court has paved the way for the Maharashtra Housing and Development Authority (MHADA) to carry out redevelopment of Dharavi Sector 5, but the state government would have to struggle to find a way of evicting 63 per cent slumdwellers who have been found ineligible for rehabilitation under …
Thanks to rider that flow of JnNURM funds would stop, if it is not formed. The State government has begun the process of constituting the much-delayed Metropolitan Planning Committee (MPC) for Bangalore. Under the 74th amendment of the Constitution, MPC is mandatory for a city with a population of more …
Escrow account, routing of fund through specified agencies under consideration, real estate bodies want clarity in definition The finance ministry is building safeguards to ensure realty companies do not misuse the external commercial borrowing (ECB) window announced in the Budget by diverting the money. A senior official told Business Standard …
The Bombay High Court on Thursday directed developer Niranjan Hiranandani to submit a revised plan for building houses for middle and low-income groups in Powai to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). The civic body has been asked to take a decision on the new proposal by June 15. The court …
Over 300 tribal community people including 100 women and 20 children who had camped inside the forest in Nelmar Agraharam near Thally ended their agitation on Tuesday. According to officials of the Forest Department, the tribals started vacating their tents inside the forest area from Monday evening. The rest of …
Urban planners attached to an advocacy group on Panchayati Raj here on Monday called upon the Rajasthan Government to pay greater attention to the Centre's flagship scheme, Rajiv Awas Yojana, for providing affordable housing to slum dwellers in the cities. The focus of the Yojana is on according property rights …
Way back in the 1960s when the then Lushai Hills district of Assam was at the peak of insurgency and the security forces burnt down villages by the dozen to teach the insurgents a lesson, hundreds of Mizos were rendered homeless for long. But today, Mizoram (the state that Lushai …
The Maharashtra government tabled a legislation in the state assembly on Wednesday to bring the much-needed transparency and discipline in the realty sector, and protect the interests of flat buyers. The Maharashtra Housing (Regulation and Development) Bill also proposes to repeal the Maharashtra Ownership Flats Act, 1963, envisaging establishment of …
