Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
Shot in arm: Total FSI for saleable residential projects increased up to 1.7 Over six years after it introduced the Special Township Project (STP) scheme to promote self-sustainable micro-economic hubs in and around urban centres in Maharashtra, the state government on Sunday finalised several modifications to the existing policy. While …
Mumbai: The state government has decided to permit use of no-development zones (NDZs) for industrial, commercial and residential activity in the exit policy for special economic zones (SEZs). A basic floor space index (FSI) of 0.5 on the gross area will be permitted in NDZ areas. As an exit route, …
Report says urbanisation will be the single-largest factor driving demand for real estate and housing in particular Urbanisation will be the single-largest factor driving demand for real estate and housing in particular. This growing population has rapidly fueled the process of urbanisation. With 31 out of every 100 people in …
Mumbai In a move that could give a further fillip to the economic reforms kickstarted by the Centre last week, the government has now told commercial banks to fund partially completed residential projects, as well as projects in small towns on a priority basis. At a meeting between the secretary …
Having exhausted most of its land bank, the Tamil Nadu Housing Board (TNHB) is planning to take up joint ventures with private land owners in the city, as well as in other parts of the State. According to sources in TNHB, the proposal has been initiated as there is a …
A committee appointed by the state government to study certain aspects of the ambitious rental housing scheme has recommended the introduction of affordable housing in special townships in areas outside the limits of municipal councils. The committee, comprising the metropolitan commissioner, principal secretaries of housing and urban development, last week …
In a move that aims at providing more land for construction and increased sops to builders in the ecologically sensitive Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) areas, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has asked the state government to allow the new relaxed building norms to be applicable in such areas. As per …
The Union environment ministry has notified the new Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) regime, replacing the CRZ notification of 1991. The notification, which has come after years of heated debate and controversy pleases no group entirely—the developers see it as a further restriction of building and industrial activities along the coast, …
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) project to provide free floor space index (FSI) to builders creating public parking slots has gone all wrong. The builders are exploiting the project to fill their coffers. They are using the free area provided by the BMC in the land-starved Mumbai to construct buildings, …
Sanjay Jog / Mumbai December 15, 2010, 0:42 IST The Maharashtra government has scrapped its policy to grant additional floor space index (FSI) for public parking in Mumbai city under its Development Control Regulations 33 (24). The government had notified the extra FSI for parking one-and-a-half years earlier following a …
Mumbai Pollution monitor serves showcause notices, each project built parking lots for extra FSI The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board has issued show-cause notices to 13 real estate projects on the ground that they haven
Mumbai development boost Navi Mumbai, which follows a different development pattern, to be excluded The additional floor space index (FSI) allowed in Mumbai city in special cases may soon be available in other parts of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), barring Navi Mumbai. In the city, higher FSIs are granted …
Paul John | TNN Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) is taking a step that would to some extent wash away the sins committed by civic planners leading to a disorderly growth. For the first time, the AMC would be practising, what they call, micro zoning in the area under Sabarmati riverfront …
mumbai Builders with projects near the Metro rail or Monorail routes, or any other major infrastructure development in Mumbai, may soon have to pay a one-time
Buildings to reach 70 metres, those within 100 metres of BRTS routes to get 1.8 FSI instead of 1 With the state government and the Centre giving a nod to construct buildings up to 70 mtrs and double the floor space index (FSI) respectively in Pimpri-Chinchwad, the industrial town will …
Paul John | TNN Ahmedabad: It was a PIL that freed Gandhinagar from the clutches of the babus in September last year. The Gujarat government displayed a haste and declared Gandhinagar a municipal corporation on May 1
