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. …
GUWAHATI, Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) has come up with a new project called the Slum Housing Project with the objective of providing Basic Services to the Urban Poor (BSUP). Talking to The Sentinel, a GMC official said,
PANJIM, Goa State Law Commission has recommended that district collectors should be empowered to decide compensation to be paid to land holders in case their holdings are acquired by State government. The Commission
A construction boom risks destroying a game park on the Kenyan capital's edge, where lions hunt in the shadows of skyscrapers, a wildlife official said. Nairobi has a population of about three million people but that is expected to surge to eight million within two decades, fuelling demand for housing …
Capital Development Authority (CDA) has announced Park Enclave- an environmental friendly model housing project in the heart of Islamabad- consisting of 700 houses in phase-I and other 600 houses in phase
Several hundred farmers in the Rajshahi city on Monday staged a demonstration and submitted a memorandum to the deputy commissioner, protesting at the land acquisition by the Rajshahi City Corporation for its housing project. They said with this they would have to give up their land property for the seventh …
JAMMU, Minister for Revenue, Relief and Rehabilitation, Raman Bhalla, today said Government is launching several reformative measures to better living standards of urban slum population of the State. This was stated by the Minister while interacting with locals after assessing the development related problems of the residents of Kaccha Talab …
The sanitation workers of MCD, who do not have their own dwelling spaces in the city, will be allotted houses at concessional rates under Dr Ambedkar Housing Scheme. The scheme was launched here on Thursday to mark Dr Ambedkar Jayanti. The process of allotting houses to at least 254 sanitation …
The gram sabha of Cavelossim Village Panchayat on Sunday opposed the land acquisition proposal of the Fisheries Department for the proposed construction of ship building, docking and repairs of boats at Mobor. Sarpanch Edwin Cardozo said the proposal to acquired 17800 square metres for the proposed ship building project has …
Maharashtra is home to the largest number of urban poor in the country, but Rs 817.63 crore meant to provide them basic amenities remain unused. Latest Union minister of housing and urban poverty alleviation figures reveal that the state has utilized only 42% of funds released under Jawaharlal Nehru National …
The state minister for housing and public works, Abdul Mannan Khan, on Thursday said the government has taken a project for setting up four satellite towns adjacent to the capital to reduce existing housing crisis in the Dhaka city.
A study conducted by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham) pegged the population of the urban poor in the country at 225 million by 2015. Currently, 40-45 per cent of the urban poor are living in slums or squatter settlements. The remaining people live under bridges …
The Janasevana housing and settlement development program is being implemented with the intention of providing housing facilities to one million houseless families of the country within the next five years. This housing program is aimed at providing housing facilities to all communities in our society, nearly 60,000 families will benefit …
Camelot Housing Colony was planned at an ecologically sensitive spot Slated to have 18 towers, some with 35 floors, with luxury flats costing at least Rs.3 crore. Chandigarh's design restricts maximum number of floors in residential buildings to three. CHANDIGARH: The Punjab & Haryana High Court has stayed booking, selling …
The district-level vigilance meeting resolved to urge the Union Government to increase the amount under Indira Awas Yojana to Rs 75,000. The decision was taken at a meeting held under the presidentship of former Prime Minister and MP H D Deve Gowda. Both the MPs H D Deve Gowda and …
In a meeting held on Tuesday, fishermen and environmentalists strongly opposed the government proposal to relocate 1,356 slum tenements and evict more than 3,000 hutments in Srinivasapuram to create a 15-acre park near Adyar Creek. They also objected to the development of a 45-lakh square-feet commercial hub which includes theatres …
In a meeting held on Tuesday, fishermen and environmentalists strongly opposed the government proposal to relocate 1,356 slum tenements and evict more than 3,000 hutments in Srinivasapuram to create a 15-acre park near Adyar Creek. They also objected to the development of a 45-lakh square-feet commercial hub which includes theatres …
