Delhi-NCR
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has revealed in a recent report sent to Lieutenant Governor’s office that the Sheila Dikshit-led Congress government did not provide the much-claimed basic services in 895 unauthorized colonies in Delhi before legalizing them. Though the provision of basic facilities to illegal colonies in the capital was one of the [...] Continue Reading »
In a last-week order to the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu said that the Authority should allot land to each of the municipal bodies in places where there is potential for installation of facilities for conversion of debris into building material. In the instructions released to DDA on Friday, Naidu said that [...] Continue Reading »
In a recent ruling, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has said that no land or house/apartment will be allotted in Delhi in the future if the structures do not have rainwater-harvesting systems in place. Making the stipulation of rainwater-harvesting system mandatory for allotment of land or house/apartment in Delhi, an NGT bench headed by Chairperson [...] Continue Reading »
The North Delhi Municipal Corporation has carried out a survey in the Karol Bagh Zone to ascertain ‘dangerous’ buildings. The survey comes close on the heels of the collapse of Inderlok building in which 10 people lost their lives. As a part of its recent survey of perilous buildings with potential risk of collapse, especially [...] Continue Reading »
On Thursday, the Delhi High Court asked the Lieutenant Governor (LG) to revisit the plan for commercialization and redevelopment project in Kidwai Nagar and South Extension-II. The LG has also been urged to analyze how the existing infrastructure will be affected by the project. The HC’s request to the LG to revisit the project plan [...] Continue Reading »
At a recently-held meeting, the Public Works Department (PWD) (B&R) Haryana, National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) and the Gurgaon district administration passed a proposal for the construction of a flyover at Hero Honda Chowk — a high-traffic junction along the Delhi-Jaipur Highway in Gurgaon. With the proposal for the flyover having finally been passed [...] Continue Reading »
For 11 of the 17 group housing plots which are on offer in Greater Noida, a total of 26 developers submitted their bids on Thursday. The bids will be opened after the technical papers have been scrutinized. The group housing scheme for plotted and flatted development was announced last month by the Greater Noida Authority [...] Continue Reading »
The financial capital of India Mumbai has seen a sharp increase of 35.2% in the land for residential development in the last two years. Bangalore is the close second with 26.1% and NCR third with 24.9% growth in the same index of land price appreciation. Global consultancy firm Knight Frank’s Prime Asia Development Land Index report has revealed [...] Continue Reading »
With the National Green Tribunal (NGT) having banned construction work in the ecologically sensitive zone within the 10km periphery of the Okhla Bird Sanctuary, uncertainty surrounds the affected realty projects in Noida; and realty buyers and investors in the mentioned region are incurring losses on their investments. The NGT’s order to stall construction in the [...] Continue Reading »
One of the fast-growing Noida realty developers, Horizon Concept Pvt. Ltd, is set to launch an awesome and mesmeric 5-star hotel in Greater Noida’s Orrizonte mixed-use commercial project. The new hotel project will be the third project to be initiated by the Horizon Concept. For the project, Horizon Concept has partnered with India’s well-known hotel [...] Continue Reading »
