Housing

Order of the High Court of Gujarat regarding illegal encroachments in and around Chandola lake, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, 06/05/2025

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. …

Draft master development plan 2025: Jaipur region

The Draft Master Development Plan for Jaipur Region prepared for the horizon year 2025 is approved in the Jaipur Development Authority 57th Authority Meeting Dated 14/10/2009. It is notified for objections and suggestions under section 23(1) of Jaipur Development Authority Act 1982 vide notification JDA/STPMP/2009/09/D312 dated 06/11/2009. http://121.242.213.11/Jaipurjda/DMDP4download.aspx

Govt to develop 4 satellite towns around Dhaka

The government is set to develop four satellite towns surrounding the capital to ease the housing crisis and pressure on utilities on the capital. The four towns, each equipped with one 100,000 accommodation facility, will be implemented under public-private partnership initiative, state minister for housing and public works Abdul Mannan …

Green homes: towards energy-efficient housing in the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe region

The study reviews existing energy efficiency policies in housing in the UNECE member States, and recommends technological, institutional and behavioural changes that can achieve substantial energy savings in the housing sector. UNECE Committee on Housing and Land Management, which is responsible for the study, is developing an action plan to …

2 mega projects in green trouble

Aug. 30: At least two mega projects in the city that were supposed to give relief to people from parking and housing woes have hit a roadblock with a state-level green body questioning how they started the work without getting the necessary environmental clearances. The two projects are

India and climate change talks

If the big and largely rich emitters of today were to take mitigation in the immediate future seriously, they could achieve emission reductions without denying the poor in India the prospects of a humane existence, says Arvind Panagariya IHAVE been surprised by the number of reasonable Indians who have come …

Indira Awas: 802 houses sanctioned for Kodagu

As many as 802 houses have been sanctioned to the district under the Indira Awas scheme. Steps will be taken to distribute the benefits equally to all Gram Panchayats, said Zilla Panchayat President S N Rajarao. He was speaking after distributing sewing machines to the unemployed SC/ST women of Mullusoge …

DDA passes zonal plans

DDA decided to declare Nehru Place a `No Hawking Zone' . It will also take up construction of 10,000 houses for the poor under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission. The Delhi Development Authority on Monday passed the draft zonal plans for Yamuna river bed (zone"O") and Rohini area …

Housing scheme for poor in limbo

Aug. 4: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has failed to construct 27,379 flats for economically weaker sections though three years have passed since the project was cleared by the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission. These flats were sanctioned with Rs 1 lakh as the unit cost in 2006. However, …

White Roofs Catch on as Energy Cost Cutters

Returning to their ranch-style house in Sacramento after a long summer workday, Jon and Kim Waldrep were routinely met by a wall of heat.

China funds mega housing project

The Government yesterday entered into an agreement with the Chinese Government to initiate a mega housing project in the country. Over 130,000 housing units will be built island wide under this project which is fully funded by the Chinese Government. China has extended a concessionary loan of Rs 120 billion …

Rs 2.3cr swindled from Indiramma

July 14: A scam was unearthed in the Indiramma housing scheme of the Andhra Pradesh State Housing Corporation Limited where a techie siphoned off Rs 2.2 crore. The sleuths of the Central Crime Station have registered a case against the accused and have begun the investigation. Sources in the city …

Creating rural assets

The government's flagship job security scheme - the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (nrega) -is set to undergo major changes by opening its doors to skilled labour and laying emphasis on creation of 'permanent' or 'viewable' assets. The idea, first mooted by Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia some …

Depleting farmlands need attention

ACCORDING to various reports as published recently in the national media, the dwindling size of farms, rise in landlessness and depletion of farmland are posing formidable threats to agriculture besides increasing poverty in the country. The average farm size has come down to less than 0.6 hectares and the percentage …

Panel questions concept of free housing

Mumbai A day after the state government-appointed committee for the Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP) wrote a strong letter against the manner of implementation of the project, it has challenged the very concept of free housing for slumdwellers. The ten-member expert committee, comprising retired IAS officials, urban planners, activists and architects, …

GHMC sleeping on houses for poor

July 7: Though the state government had plans to allot over 42,000 flats to the poor before the GHMC polls, the corporation has been able to complete only 17,000 flats. However, of the total 17,000 flats completed, almost 12,000 were allotted before the Assembly elections to beneficiaries mostly from Ranga …

Low-tech retrofit experiment could transform social housing

The Greening-the-Box initiative aims to demonstrate that retrofitting can transform hard-to-heat housing association and council properties into models of low-tech sustainability and fuel efficiency - with almost zero heating.

Rs 18 crore housing project

Minister for Housing and Muzrai V Somanna on Wednesday visited the slum areas in Nayandhalli and laid the foundation stone for a Rs 18 crore project to reconstruct pukka houses in these areas. Under the Housing Board Department, the project will provide 900 ground-plus-two houses in the slum for the …

HUDA to construct houses for the poor

CHANDIGARH: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said on Tuesday that the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) would construct 37,513 houses in phases for people belonging to weaker sections of society. Out of these, 15,311 houses were being constructed during the current financial year at a cost of Rs.460 crore, …

New slum development scheme to cover 74 cities

Rs 1.5 lakh Central assistance to be given to each family. Conditional aid Assistance is, however, conditional upon the State governments concerned assigning property rights to slum-dwellers. Harish Damodaran, New Delhi, June 23 Barely a fortnight after the President

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