Hyderabad
Gowri Shankar Gupta, a prominent realtor, has been arrested on 22nd June in connection with a criminal case filed by construction giant DLF. He was called for questioning and subsequently arrested, in accordance to a pending case of cheating Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA). Soon after his arrest, the accused complained of chest pain and [...] Continue Reading »
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has been looking for aid from corporate world to groom the city for the International Biodiversity Conference to be held in October. The Central Government’s refusal for support has paved way to this act of GHMC. Many leading companies including L & T, Nagarjuna Constructions, State Bank of India [...] Continue Reading »
The Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) will be opening the Outer Ring Road (ORR) stretch between Patancheru and Shamirpet to traffic in July. The road works will be completed by end of June and it will be open to public in July if chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy grants permission, said sources. The HMDA has already completed about 87 [...] Continue Reading »
As monsoon is on its way for many parts of India, it looks like GHMC Hyderabad is not bothered to get prepared to face the monsoon. There are still many places in the city where desiltation of the nalas is only half done and the civic body’s disaster management cell do not have enough manpower [...] Continue Reading »
There are many defaulters in Hyderabad who have been eluding property tax. For catching those people and to save crores of rupees lost as revenue in the form of property tax, GHMC Hyderabad has planned to install Geographic Information System (GIS). Two agencies, Vayum Technologies and Vensoft, will help the civic body with the endeavour [...] Continue Reading »
The Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has decided to issue a notification for auctioning plots soon. The auction will be conducted through e-bidding, where people will have to quote their price online. The HMDA authority would put up 44 plots in the proposed auction. The plots will be put for auction in leftover areas like Nallagandla, [...] Continue Reading »
Shravan Gupta, managing director (MD) of Emaar MGF, one of the India’s leading real estate developers, has moved a ‘recall’ of the non-bailable arrest warrant petition in the CBI court as the court issued a lookout notice to him. The petition states that Gupta, one of the accused in the Emaar case, is unable to [...] Continue Reading »
The land disputes in the prime area of Banjara Hills remain unresolved from decades, between government and private parties that claim to be its owners. Up to 140 acres of vacant land in different parts of Banjara Hills worth as much as 3,000 crores is under litigation presently. Claimants of these properties are descendents of [...] Continue Reading »
The Secretariat Colony in Puppalguda has turned in to a hub of illegal apartments. A group of Secretariat employees have bought vacant plots and even independent homes in this area about two decades ago, are now redeveloped into commercially viable multi-storied projects which largely caters the middle-class buyers. Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) officials said [...] Continue Reading »
As the new projects under second phase of Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) are being assigned to Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), old projects under JNNURM-I worth Rs 800 crore still lie unfinished. The actual deadline given was 2012 but the center gave extra time till 2014. A total of ten projects are [...] Continue Reading »
