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. …
The Cuncolim Citizens Action Committee has urged the Chief Town Planner not to issue any clearances for the mega housing project proposed at Panzorconne-Cuncolim adjacent the 1.26 lakh sq mts of government acquired land. In a letter to the Chief Town Planner, Committee President Oscar Martins lodged its strong objection …
New Delhi: Grappling with high land prices that come in the way of providing affordable housing for millions in urban areas, the UPA government is now considering providing state-owned land to private players at a pre-determined price with certain riders. The concept paper for such a
* The Planning Commission estimates the urban poor at some 80 million * Figure for the rural poor is 120 million * Over 98 million people migrate from rural to urban centres * The 42nd Indian Labour Conference recommended a scheme for tackling urban unemployment It is early days yet …
May 31: The Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, has directed officials to set up a Credit Guarantee Fund that will benefit 30 lakh women under the Indiramma Housing Scheme. The fund, with an initial corpus of Rs 15 crore, will stand guarantee to banks which have been hesitating to …
May 25: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is planning to encourage cluster housing to liberate congested areas such as Abids, Sultan Bazaar and parts of old city for development. A draft master plan for the capital prepared by the GHMC proposes many incentives for areas which take up cluster …
A mega housing project proposed at Fatrade in Varca village has come under stiff opposition from local residents. At a corner meeting held on Sunday evening, the residents strongly opposed the project saying that it would affect the already crumbling infrastructure and open the village to hordes of outsiders into …
Mumbai EYEING LOSERS A couple of small-time developers hired people to hand out pamphlets of their projects. A lawyer found distributing handouts offering legal help for those who get flats was whisked away by MHADA's vigilance staff. 'BLIND TO OUR NEED' Activists of the National Association for the Blind and …
MUMBAI: Tata Capital Housing Finance, which started its operations on Tuesday, said it aimed to disburse loans worth Rs. 400-crore this financial year.
Mumbai The extension of the Nano car concept to residential project seems to have clicked for the Tata group. Within five days, the company has sold an overwhelming 6,000 forms for the 1,000 flats at its recently announced budget homes project at Boisar. Recently the group
13 May 2009, 0655 hrs IST, Sanjeev Choudhary, ET Bureau NEW DELHI: Tata Group has sold around 3,500 application forms for its low-cost housing project, Shubh Griha near Mumbai, in the first two days of booking, three-and-a-half times the number of apartments the company is planning to build under the …
Chen Yongrong and Chen Yinan BEIJING: China has invested 360 billion yuan (about $52.7 billion) in post-earthquake reconstruction as of April, one-third of the planned total, and hopes to complete all work within two years, a government official has said. According to Mu Hong, vice-director of China
Former prime minister H.D. Deve Gowda's constituency Hassan, which also happens to be his home district, is quite possibly one of the best nurtured electoral regions in Karnataka. His rivals in the Congress and bjp concede that if development alone were the criterion, he and his family would win the …
The relationship of domestic endotoxin exposure to allergy and asthma has been widely investigated. However, few studies have evaluated predictors of household endotoxin, and none have done so for multiple locations within homes and on a national scale. The authors assayed 2,552 house dust samples in a nationwide study to …
This paper summarizes the methodological approach, and the results, of a study aimed at assessing the potential for electricity conservation and carbon dioxide emissions reductions in the Brazilian household sector.
The central component of this research initiative is the creation of a composite index of environmentally sustainable consumption called the Greendex. The Greendex will be used over time to monitor and report changes in consumer behavior by replicating the research annually. This is the second year National Geographic has partnered …
Speakers at a roundtable yesterday called upon the government to prepare special housing policy for the 45 million people living in the coastal areas where they are most vulnerable in case of national disaster. They also demanded the government should adopt the policy to construct community base cyclone proof house …
The lands, on which Bashundhara Group Chief Ahmed Akbar Sobhan alias Shah Alam promised two football stadiums for Bangladesh Football Federation, are mostly part of protected wetlands and flood flow zones, which cannot be legally used for building anything on them, according to Rajuk sources. Shah Alam promised the lands …
CHANDIGARH: Bahujan Samaj Party candidate for the Chandigarh Lok Sabha seat Harmohan Dhawan on Monday asked how without a proper transfer policy could Union Minister of State for Finance Pawan Kumar Bansal, the Congress candidate for the seat, promise the residents another storey whereas they
