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. …
With no Indian standards and code of practice available in the country for most of the new technologies developed indigenously as also those sourced from other countries, the Housing and Urban Alleviation Ministry is commissioning a study to evolve testing protocol to promote their implementation. The IIT-Kanpur will conduct the …
LUCKNOW: In a bid to promote solar power in the state, the Uttar Pradesh government has made installation of roof top solar panels mandatory for residential and offices constructed on an area of more than 5000 sq feet. A building owner will have to reserve 25% of the area for …
How’s Life? describes the essential ingredients that shape people’s well-being in OECD and partner countries. It includes a wide variety of statistics, capturing both material well-being (such as income, jobs and housing) and the broader quality of people’s lives (such as their health, education, work-life balance, environment, social connections, civic …
Land pooling may be touted as the solution to the city's growing housing requirement, but experts say that it should be done with proper planning, especially of essential services like water.Failure to plan would result in adding to the existing load and lead to chaos in the city . Citing …
The government has identified 305 cities and towns across nine states for implementation of its ambitious ‘Housing for All’ scheme. As many as 305 cities and towns have been identified in nine states for beginning of construction of houses for the urban poor under the scheme, said a senior housing …
The State Government failed to avail Central assistance of 128.23 crore because of delay in execution and utilisation of funds for drinking water projects. Drinking water in adequate quantity was not supplied to all people in 95 out of 106 urban areas of the State. The CAG, in its latest …
NAINITAL: To promote safe housing which will be fire, water and quake-proof, the forest department is planning to promote a hybrid of bamboo, called 'Reinforcement Compact Bamboo Material' or 'Bullet proof Bamboo Board', which is currently being used to build army bunkers. The material, commonly known as defensive grade, is …
Why not build houses the environmentally friendly way? That is a question an increasing number of people across the developing world - environmentalists, town planners, architects and others - have been asking of late. For those in the business of building houses, the question is more pertinent and the one …
NOIDA: In a major setback to thousands of home buyers affected by the eco-sensitive zone declared retrospectively by the NGT around Okhla Bird Sanctuary (OBS), the state stamp and registration department on Sunday said they will be unable to provide them any relief, and that home buyers will have to …
DEHRADUN: Rapid concretization is sweeping across rural Uttarakhand as per the latest census report, which states that about 78.81% of houses are 'pucca houses'. According to the report, of the total 14.79 lakh households in the rural region, 11.51 lakh have 'pucca' structures. Under the pucca house category, about 1.21 …
The arid expanses of the Sahara desert could be transformed within a decade, according to French architecture company OXO. The Parisian firm has proposed building a futuristic mixed-use tower in the world's biggest desert. The tower's design is based on renewable resources like rainwater collection, solar power and geothermal energy …
The provisional socio-economic data for Rural India has been released. The survey has been completed in all the 640 districts. It is provisional as the final lists are being uploaded in some districts after addressing all the objections received. It is being released as its use in evidence based planning …
Govt Nod Not Must For Land Use Conversion As part of its Make in Maharashtra push for business, the state government has further eased the rules for industrial expansion on agricultural land. In addition to hiking building rights on farm land, the government has also dropped the requirement to convert …
CLEAR ROAD MAP Govt will use socio-economic census data to identify the causes in one lakh villages at household levels. The government is preparing a blueprint for attacking the root causes of poverty in over 1 lakh villages instead of running piecemeal schemes that do not address the specific challenge …
Strong macroeconomic fundamentals offer India a “reasonable degree of resilience” to fight uncertainties, but poor asset quality of banks and managing expectations are key challenges for regulators and the government, says the Financial Stability Report. There has been a significant improvement in the macroeconomic environment, and going forward, economic performance …
At the slum decadal growth rate of 34%, the slum households are projected to go upto 18 million. 2 million non-slum urban poor households are proposed to be covered under the Mission. Hence, total housing shortage envisaged to be addressed through the new mission is 20 million. The Mission will …
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today said that for the first time in the country, the people, and the urban leadership would play the pivotal role in deciding the future course of their cities. He was speaking at the launch of three major urban development initiatives: AMRUT (Atal Mission …
Delhi suffers from air pollution caused by transportation, road dust, industries and domestic air emissions says Delhi Economic Survey 2014-15 released on 24 June 2015. Economic Survey of Delhi 2014-15: In reflection of growing economic prosperity of Delhiites, the per capita annual income in the national capital rose by nearly …
BMC, housing project, city housing project, mumbai news, city news, local news, maharashtra news, Indian ExpressThe Bhendi Bazaar cluster redevelopment in South Mumbai — Mumbai’s biggest housing project — has hit a hurdle. The BMC has declined to sanction the developer’s plan of providing the compulsory green space or recreational …
The new Lagos State governor, Mr Akinwumi Ambode, has said the state would consider adopting a ‘rent and own’ policy in resolving its housing deficiency in Nigeria’s most populated city with over 15 million inhabitants. He said in a statement seen by APA on Sunday that it was not easy …
