Cities
Chandivali, a suburb of north-central Mumbai, has developed at a rapid space. There has been a 20 per cent hike in property prices of multi-storey apartments during the July-September quarter as compared to the April-June quarter. Along with the price appreciation, rentals of multi-storey apartments too have gone up by 19 per cent during the [...] Continue Reading »
Residents of the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) Quarters in Ejipura have staged a dharna opposing their eviction by the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP). BBMP have started the eviction to facilitate the joint development of the land with a private partner. As per the agreement, 1,512 flats for EWS will be constructed on one half [...] Continue Reading »
The BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has ordered a probe into all occupation certificates (OC) issued by the civic body in the last 10 years against promised rainwater harvesting systems by builders. The announcement of the enquiry came after several corporators alleged that officials of the civic building proposal department had handed out OCs to builders [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will undertake a pilot project of the newly adapted technology of geo-tagging all the garbage collection points in the city. The geo-tagging will help the BMC keep a close check on the garbage collection process. The tracking would be done with the help of GPS devices fitted in the garbage [...] Continue Reading »
The Andhra Pradesh government decided to distribute one lakh acres of land to the landless poor in the state on November 1. So far, the government has sketched around 85,480 acres of land to be distributed to 60,888 beneficiaries across the state, said Revenue Minister N Raghuveera Reddy. It was stated by the Revenue Minister [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s ambitious plans to monitor road contractors’ work quality may not take off soon. The BMC had invited tenders worth Rs 120 crore to repair potholes and asked contractors to install sensors and GPS devices on their machinery to enable the civic body to monitor quality. BMC made it compulsory for contractors [...] Continue Reading »
In order to transfer ownership to a new buyer, a home buyer in Maharashtra had to do before selling a newly-purchased flat was to obtain a no objection certificate (NOC) from the developer. This process gave an opportunity to the developers to extract a large sum as ‘ transfer fee’ from the clueless buyer lieu of a no objection [...] Continue Reading »
In a creative initiative, the Gujarat government has come up with two pilot projects in the state capital Gandhinagar, in which solar power will be generated using terraces of residential and commercial buildings. Each one of these projects will generate 5 MW of solar power and will further work towards extending this concept to five [...] Continue Reading »
The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that India plans to provide affordable electricity to all households in the next five years. In the next five years, India is aiming to provide 24×7 electricity to all households in the country and affordable electricity, said the Prime Minister inaugurating an International Seminar on Energy Access organised by [...] Continue Reading »
In a recent meeting held, the Supreme Court said that the common man felt cheated as the authorities only demolish illegal slums of the poor and not the illegal constructions by the rich. A bench of Justices said that the illegal constructions by the affluent destroyed the concept of planned development and also it affects [...] Continue Reading »
