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. …
CHENNAI: The Institute of Town Planners India (ITPI), Tamil Nadu chapter, has urged the state government to constitute a technical advisory group of eminent citizens for Chennai Municipal Corporation, and other major cities, to advise on sustainable development. ITPI secretary R Shivakumar told Express after the release of a newsletter …
Bhubaneswar: While the Odisha government has been raising the issue of alleged neglect from the Centre so far as flow of financial assistance under various programmes is concerned, the state at the same time is losing huge funds for irregularities and tardy implementation of the Central projects every year. And …
A Bill to regulate and promote the construction, sale, management and transfer of flats on the ownership basis in the State of Maharashtra and to establish the Housing Regulatory Authority and Housing Appellate Tribunal and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government had to lose Central assistance of ` 190.72 crore during 2005 to 2011 because of low spending of available scheme funds by the implementing agencies. According to the latest CAG report, scrutiny of records of seven district rural development agencies (DRDAs), Balasore, Cuttack, Ganjam, Gajapati, Nuapada, …
These Rules may be called ‘The Andhra Pradesh Building Rules - 2012’. They shall apply to the building activities in the areas falling in; Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA), All Urban Development Authorities, All Municipal Corporations, All Municipalities, All Nagar Panchayats, Gram Panchayat areas covered in Master Plans /General Town …
BHUBANESWAR: Above a third of Odisha’s households have to trudge half a km and more every day to get their quota of drinking water. What is worse, their number has been on the rise, the latest House-listing and Housing Census 2011 has found. Indicating an abysmal state of affairs, the …
The Census 2011 data for Haryana has revealed that about 96 per cent of families were living in good or liveable houses while the remaining were living in dilapidated houses, Director (Census Operations) Neerja Sekhar said here on Thursday. Releasing the Housing Census data at a Press conference here, she …
Planned by British architects Chapman Taylor, and to be executed by the National Buildings Construction Corporation (NBCC), East Kidwai Nagar is an ambitious redevelopment project, pegged at an approximate cost of Rs 4,500 crore. The government plans to raze the existing 2,331 government quarters in East Kidwai Nagar and replace …
The Punjab and Haryana High Court today made it clear that the Tata Camelot Housing Project coming up in Punjab’s Kansal village could proceed further only after grant of clearances, sanctions, permissions and fulfillment of other pre-conditions. The Bench made it clear that the project promoters and other respondents would …
Questions the right to grant provisional regularisation without prior scrutiny or verification of their existence Delhi Lokayukta Manmohan Sarin has issued a show-cause notice to the Delhi Government seeking a clear answer as to whether provisional regularisation certificates could have been granted to unauthorised colonies without verification of their existence …
External lenders may not find low-income or affordable housing attractive, due to the low profit margins and high risk A proposal has been mooted for all external commercial borrowing (ECB) for affordable housing to be routed through the National Housing Bank (NHB), mooted by the latter. Many in the real …
Latest Census reveals high-end technology is common in the Capital and households have greater comforts than ever before With a greater number of its households possessing television sets than radios and transistors, with more families being connected to the Internet than to landline phones and with more people having scooters …
The impact of the Kochi Skycity project on the ecosystem will be very high, Ian Mell, faculty member of the Department of Town and Regional Planning at the University of Sheffield in the U.K., has said. An active researcher in landscape planning with specific focus on green infrastructure, Dr. Mell …
The House Family size 6-8, number of members in a typical Indian family, going by the single largest segment. A quarter of all families (24.9%) have that many members, followed by families of 4 members (22.7%), 5 members (18.8%), 3 members (13.6%), 2 members (9.7%) and 9 or more members …
The Yashoram Infra Developers Private Limited has informed the Kerala High Court that the implementation of the proposed sky city project would not cause any damage to coastal ecosystems or the backwater system in the city. In an affidavit, the company said that no reclamation of backwaters or wetland was …
Even after 7 years, big chunk of JNNURM phase-1 projects still on paper; phase-2 may be announced in April The proposed phase-2 of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) may see allocations double, though close to half of the phase-1 projects remain pending, especially in the case of …
BHUBANESWAR: Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday said the implementation of the Integrated Action Plan (IAP) should be made more participatory by consulting people’s representatives in districts. Chidambaram reviewed the implementation of IAP in the State through video-conferencing with district collectors. Chief Secretary Bijay Kumar Patnaik and secretaries of …
KOCHI: It was part of the efforts to regulate the increasing number of highrise buildings that the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) issued a fresh set of guidelines towards getting environmental clearance for high-rise buildings in three states, including Kerala. According to the new set of rules, any high-rise …
- Family members & loyalists of RSP leaders among beneficiaries Naoda: Several undeserving candidates have allegedly been allotted money in a Murshidabad pocket under a central housing scheme for below-poverty-line people. Many residents of Gangadhari village in Naoda have been enlisted as beneficiaries of the Indira Awaas Yojana even though …
The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has issued a new set of rules for building high rises. The guidelines relate to height of buildings, adequacy of fire-fighting facilities, width of the road and distance from the fire station, among other requirements. This is the first time the ministry has …
