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. …
High economic growth coupled with rapid urbanization and a rising middle class have created considerable demand for housing and housing finance in South Asia. More than 14% of low-income families in the region have no home. While housing and housing finance markets have grown at a rate of 30%, it …
Gangtok, Sept 23: Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Chamling yesterday said that there is no dearth of employment opportunities in the State since lots of people from outside the state earn their livelihood by working here.
In a city struggling to keep pace with the demand for housing stock, officially all that is left in the kitty of the Mumbai board of the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (Mhada) is about five acres of land. However, it has huge pieces of land lying idle with …
MUMBAI: The state government and City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco), which are developing the international airport at Navi Mumbai, have firmly refused to allow residential buildings near the site. The authorities have made it clear that at least a five-km radius around the site as well as the funnel …
NEW DELHI: Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Wednesday called for support of industry to address the issue of housing for the poor whose dwelling units dot various industrial clusters across the Capital.Speaking at the release of the new Industrial Policy for Delhi 2010-21, Ms. Dikshit said the public-private partnership route …
The Paroda gram sabha on Sunday strongly opposed a mega housing project proposed at Karalem area of the village. At the Sunday gram sabha meeting, gram sabha members opposed the mega housing project on grounds that the village has no garbage disposal facility and other infrastructure facilities. Members of the …
Hyderabad, July 7: The state housing department has built just 219 houses of the one lakh that the Chief Minister, Mr K. Rosaiah, had promised would be constructed for victims of the floods in Kurnool, Mahbubnagar, Prakasam and Guntur districts last year. A GO was issued on October 19 last …
Considering the role and importance of rational and orderly growth of urban centers, the Government of Punjab intends to streamline the development process in urban settlements to ensure that these settlements continue to achieve their objectives of improved efficiency and productivity. Accordingly, it is desirable to have a stringent check …
Mumbai At a time when the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) is scrounging for every available piece of land in Mumbai to augment the affordable housing stock, its proposal to redevelop sector five of Dharavi, if accepted by the government, will add 5,000 homes to the city
This 17 nation survey on consumer behavior and environmental impact by National Geographic & Globescan revealed that environmentally friendly behaviour in 10 of 17 countries has increased and India has the most sustainable consumption pattern. This is the third year National Geographic has partnered with GlobeScan to develop an international …
Vijayawada, May 30: Land problem for the construction of houses under Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) in Vijayawada will be solved very soon. The Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) proposes to acquire 500 acres of land for the construction of houses in Gollapudi on development basis. Once farmers come forward …
Otherwise, urban disaster will follow The slump in the residential property market saw established Indian property developers turning to affordable housing, prompting immediate buyer interest. Thereafter, traditional buyers who had withdrawn first started returning to the luxury end of the market. This created a novel phenomenon
Sri Lankan government is taking measures to eradicate the slums and shanties in the capital Colombo and provide proper housing to the dwellers who have occupied the land illegally. Sri Lanka Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa who has been put in charge of the Urban Development Authority (UDA) recently told the …
As part of the protest, women brought stoves and pots and cooked food on the road near the taluk office Voicing demand:Residents of fishing hamlets in and around Thiruvanmiyur protest in front of the Mylapore-Triplicane taluk office on Greenways Road on Thursday.
This paper examines land tenure in informal urban settlements in India from a gender perspective through field research conducted in Ahmedabad in collaboration with the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA). The author describes the formal and informal tenure arrangements that were in place in these settlements and analyses their implications for …
The 2010 Commonwealth Games (CWG) will be held in New Delhi, India, from 3-14 October 2010. Given the many unanswered questions that have marked the CWG process, the Housing and Land Rights Network
Kurnool, April 27: The officials have geared up relocation works of flood-hit villages, as they overcame hurdles, after floods devastated villages in Kurnool district seven months ago. Responding to the flood disaster, the state government agreed to relocate 35 flood-hit villages in upland areas. But the works were delayed due …
