The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
Urban local bodies across the state are now demanding faster turn-key systems and construction technologies to deliver affordable houses in bulk and in a time-bound manner over the next five years. A seminar on 'New Construction technology for affordable housing' was organized at the Ahmedabad Management Association (AMA). The seminar …
Move Threatens Eco-Sensitive Aravalis, River Beds In 4 States In a move that could deal a body blow to threatened forests and water bodies in the National Capital Region, the Haryana government has successfully got restrictions on construction activity in ‘conservation zones’ deleted from the revised NCR regional plan, which …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has slammed the Uttarakhand government and the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) for their failure to provide a list of illegal construction along the river banks and other ecologically-sensitive sites. The Uttarakhand government has not responded to the NGT demand for a listing of …
Dehradun: The Uttarakhand high court on Monday banned all construction activity within 200 metres of all rivers in the state — including the Ganga and its tributaries such as the Alaknanda, Bhagirathi, Mandakini, Pindar, Kali and Gouri — with immediate effect. In 2000 the Uttar Pradesh government had allowed various …
The Haryana Government has notified a comprehensive "Affordable Housing Policy 2013" to facilitate creation of additional affordable housing stock in the urban areas of the state. Stating this here today, a spokesperson of the Town and Country Planning Department said the policy was intended to encourage the planning and completion …
The National Green Tribunal on Monday appointed local commissioners to conduct surprise inspections of real estate developers' sites in Noida and Greater Noida to ascertain if there are any violations of the ban imposed on builders for extracting groundwater in the district. The surprise checks at construction sites in the …
UP Housing and Development Board is launching more than 3,000 flats in Lucknow on Independence Day under its two schemes—Awadh Vihar Yojna on Sultanpur Road and Vrindavan Yojna on Rae Bareli Road. These include 3BHK, 2BHK, 3BHK+Study and 2BHK+Study type flats. The board had earlier announced it would offer new …
Vivekanand Gupta deals in all kinds of building materials. The locks hanging from the wall behind him, the neatly rolled up plastic pipes and the packaged water pumps are proof enough. Yet, the shine on the new locks wanes in comparison with the “worth” of the grey mound of sand …
State had planned to auction at least 140 “in-stream” sites along the Sutlej, Beas and Ravi as well as numerous seasonal streams The National Green Tribunal’s stay on sand mining on riverbeds without clearance from the Environment Ministry has put a lid on the proposal by the Punjab Government to …
Cabinet gives nod to new policy. A 500 sq ft flat worth Rs 20 lakh on cards Owning a flat may seem a far-fetched idea to the common man but Haryana’s ‘Affordable Policy 2013’ is set to change all that. With the Cabinet giving its nod to a policy for …
Builders Use SRA Rule To Bypass BMC, Boost FSI Mumbai: An upcoming luxury tower on a very narrow plot in upscale Khar (west) could soon give Mumbai’s builders an idea of how to obtain higher floor space index (FSI) by going around the civic body’s regulations and approaching the Slum …
Mumbai has 97 illegal buildings constructed by registered developers in non-slum areas, according to a recent internal report of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). The civic body started gathering this data after the five-storey Aftab Manzil in Mahim collapsed in June. It arrived at the estimate based on citizen complaints and …
The paper provides a review of the literature that links housing, housing finance, and economic development. The housing sector may support poverty reduction and inclusive growth in two general ways. First, housing construction contributes to economic output, creates employment, and generates a demand for materials and related services. Second, improved …
Coming down heavily on the East Delhi Municipal Corporation’s report in an unauthorised construction case and saying that deliberate attempts are made to pass of new constructions as old, Delhi Lokayukta Manmohan Sarin on Tuesday questioned why no serious attempts are made “to ascertain the vintage of construction by scientific …
Terming the recent flash floods in Uttarakhand a “man-made disaster,” noted geoscientists, environmentalists and social activists have cautioned against showing any haste in carrying out construction activities in devastated areas without proper survey and planning. They have called for much-needed defining of flood paths of all rivers in the hill …
If the state government has its way, permission will not be given for the construction of apartments if it doesn't specify its water source. The government may soon come out with a condition for housing project promoters to specify source of water. Chief minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday said the No-Objection …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Bengal NRI Complex Ltd. & Anr Vs Union of India & Ors. dated 19/07/2013 regarding construction work undertaken by the Appellants before getting EIA study.
The Jammu and Kashmir High Court (HC) has banned new construction along the banks of the river Lidder in south Kashmir and directed the authorities concerned to ensure that no new construction takes place there. The directions were issued by a division Bench comprising Justice Verinder Singh and Justice Muzaffar …
The state government has notified a policy for the grant of licences for group housing colonies in high-density zones. An official spokesman of the Town and Country Planning Department said here today, high-density residential zones had 1,000 persons per hectare (PPH) or more. He clarified that the policy dated December …
In one of the first consolidated reports on Uttarakhand floods, the National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) under the Union Home Ministry has said that “climatic conditions combined with haphazard human intervention” led to the disaster. The preliminary report has been prepared by a five-member team led by NIDM director …
