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. …
Aug. 4: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has failed to construct 27,379 flats for economically weaker sections though three years have passed since the project was cleared by the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission. These flats were sanctioned with Rs 1 lakh as the unit cost in 2006. However, …
The Government yesterday entered into an agreement with the Chinese Government to initiate a mega housing project in the country. Over 130,000 housing units will be built island wide under this project which is fully funded by the Chinese Government. China has extended a concessionary loan of Rs 120 billion …
July 14: A scam was unearthed in the Indiramma housing scheme of the Andhra Pradesh State Housing Corporation Limited where a techie siphoned off Rs 2.2 crore. The sleuths of the Central Crime Station have registered a case against the accused and have begun the investigation. Sources in the city …
The government's flagship job security scheme - the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (nrega) -is set to undergo major changes by opening its doors to skilled labour and laying emphasis on creation of 'permanent' or 'viewable' assets. The idea, first mooted by Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia some …
ACCORDING to various reports as published recently in the national media, the dwindling size of farms, rise in landlessness and depletion of farmland are posing formidable threats to agriculture besides increasing poverty in the country. The average farm size has come down to less than 0.6 hectares and the percentage …
Mumbai A day after the state government-appointed committee for the Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP) wrote a strong letter against the manner of implementation of the project, it has challenged the very concept of free housing for slumdwellers. The ten-member expert committee, comprising retired IAS officials, urban planners, activists and architects, …
July 7: Though the state government had plans to allot over 42,000 flats to the poor before the GHMC polls, the corporation has been able to complete only 17,000 flats. However, of the total 17,000 flats completed, almost 12,000 were allotted before the Assembly elections to beneficiaries mostly from Ranga …
The Greening-the-Box initiative aims to demonstrate that retrofitting can transform hard-to-heat housing association and council properties into models of low-tech sustainability and fuel efficiency - with almost zero heating.
Minister for Housing and Muzrai V Somanna on Wednesday visited the slum areas in Nayandhalli and laid the foundation stone for a Rs 18 crore project to reconstruct pukka houses in these areas. Under the Housing Board Department, the project will provide 900 ground-plus-two houses in the slum for the …
CHANDIGARH: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said on Tuesday that the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) would construct 37,513 houses in phases for people belonging to weaker sections of society. Out of these, 15,311 houses were being constructed during the current financial year at a cost of Rs.460 crore, …
Rs 1.5 lakh Central assistance to be given to each family. Conditional aid Assistance is, however, conditional upon the State governments concerned assigning property rights to slum-dwellers. Harish Damodaran, New Delhi, June 23 Barely a fortnight after the President
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 …
